Dr. John Minna, Dr. David Shames (IMAGE) UT Southwestern Medical Center Caption Dr. John Minna (left), director of the W.A. "Tex" and Deborah Moncrief Jr. Center for Cancer Genetics and the Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, and lead author Dr. David Shames, a Hamon Center postdoctoral researcher, have published a study identifying several genes whose expression is lost in four of the most common solid human cancers -- lung, breast, prostate and colon cancer. Credit UT Southwestern Medical Center Usage Restrictions Please use credit line. License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.