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Advances in Preventive Therapy for Estrogen-Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer. [PDF]
, 2014 Preventing breast cancer is an effective strategy for reducing breast cancer deaths. The purpose of chemoprevention (also termed preventive therapy) is to reduce cancer incidence by use of natural, synthetic, or biological agents.
Brown, Powel H, Litzenburger, Beate C
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Stomach cancer incidence in Southern Portugal 1998-2006:a spatio-temporal analysis [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding geographical differences in health, particularly in small areas, became a major concern of epidemiologists. Geographical association studies and, more recently, several spatial disease mapping studies have emerged due to the development of
Amaral Turkman, Antónia +5 more
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Reaction time and incident cancer: 25 years of follow-up of study members in the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey [PDF]
, 2014 <b>Objectives</b><p></p> To investigate the association of reaction time with cancer incidence.<p></p> <b>Methods</b><p></p> 6900 individuals aged 18 to 94 years who participated in the
B Secretan +30 more
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Oral cancer in the UK: to screen or not to screen. [PDF]
, 1998 Although oral squamous cell carcinoma accounts for only a small proportion of malignant neoplasms in the UK, oral cancer incidence and mortality rates have been rising in recent years.
Rodrigues, Veena
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High incidence of adenocarcinoma arising from the right side of the gastric cardia in NW Iran [PDF]
Background: In the West, the subsite incidence of gastric cancer has changed in recent decades, with cancer of the cardia increasing in incidence and that of the more distal stomach decreasing.
درخشان, محمدحسین +5 more
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Age incidence curves for cancer. [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1977 Age incidence curves for carcinomas tend to be linear on doubly logarithmic graphs. This fact has been used to support the somatic mutation hypothesis. It is shown that this should also be expected on the epigenetic hypothesis when the reversible cellular changes are programmed to occur randomly.
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Acta OncologicaBackground: Surveillance of incidence and survival of central nervous system tumors is essential to monitor disease burden and epidemiological changes, and to allocate health care resources.
Erlend Skaga +13 more
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Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective [PDF]
, 2007 This Report has a number of inter-related general purposes. One is to explore the extent to which food, nutrition, physical activity, and body composition modify the risk of cancer, and to specify which factors are most important.
Atinmo, T +20 more
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Cancer after nuclear incidents [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2001 Since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and the subsequent reports of raised cancer risks among survivors in the two cities, there has been interest and concern about risks arising from this and other nuclear incidents, such as the 1986 Chernobyl accident. This article reviews methodological aspects associated with the detection of
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