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Prostate cancer prevention [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Urology, 2004
Prostate cancer, a common cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world, ought to be a preventable disease. This review focuses on prostate cancer prevention in the context of new mechanistic insights into human prostatic carcinogenesis.Evidence is accumulating to implicate infection and inflammation as contributors to prostate cancer ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Breast Cancer Prevention [PDF]

open access: yesThe Oncologist, 1999
Abstract Epidemiological, experimental, and clinical data strongly support the possibility that breast cancer will be prevented by using anti-estrogenic interventions in healthy women. Three trials involving over 20,000 women have so far been reported using tamoxifen 20 mg/day or placebo in healthy women to chemoprevent breast cancer ...
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Prediction of inherited genomic susceptibility to 20 common cancer types by a supervised machine-learning method. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Prevention and early intervention are the most effective ways of avoiding or minimizing psychological, physical, and financial suffering from cancer. However, such proactive action requires the ability to predict the individual's susceptibility to cancer
Kim, Byung-Ju, Kim, Sung-Hou
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Evolution of a Systematic Approach to Smoking Cessation in Ontario’s Regional Cancer Centres

open access: yesCurrent Oncology, 2022
Smoking cessation after a cancer diagnosis can significantly improve a person’s prognosis, treatment efficacy and safety, and quality of life. In 2012, Cancer Care Ontario (now part of Ontario Health) introduced a Framework for Smoking Cessation, to be ...
Erin Cameron   +7 more
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Research Progress and Prevention Strategies of Interval Breast Cancer

open access: yesZhongliu Fangzhi Yanjiu, 2021
Breast cancer screening can significantly reduce the death rate of patients. Although the domestic screening programs have certain health economic value, the high-cost ones need to be weighed.
WEI Lijuan, LI Lijuan, LIU Juntian
doaj   +1 more source

User characteristics of national smoking cessation services in Korea: who chooses each type of tobacco cessation program?

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Relatively little is known about which characteristics of smokers are related to choosing a specific type of smoking cessation service. The user characteristics of different smoking cessation services were compared to determine the service ...
Bo Yoon Jeong   +3 more
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Increased risk of death from pneumonia among cancer survivors: A propensity score‐matched cohort analysis

open access: yesCancer Medicine, 2023
Background The repeated global pandemic of the new virus has led to interest in the possibility of severe pneumonia among cancer patients and survivors. Here, we aimed to assess the association between incident cancer and risk of death from pneumonia in ...
Shiori Tanaka   +7 more
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Microbiota, Oral Microbiome, and Pancreatic Cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Only 30% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive one year post-diagnosis. Progress in understanding the causes of pancreatic cancer has been made, including solidifying the associations with obesity and diabetes, and a proportion of cases ...
Izard, Jacques, Michaud, Dominique S.
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Comparison of multi-state Markov models for cancer progression with different procedures for parameters estimation. An application to breast cancer

open access: yesEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022
Background: the knowledge of sojourn time (the duration of the preclinical screen-detectable period) and screening test sensitivity is crucial for understanding the disease progression and the effectiveness of screening programmes.
Leonardo Ventura   +5 more
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Total protein intake and subsequent risk of chronic kidney disease: the Circulatory Risk in Communities Study

open access: yesEnvironmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2023
Background: Whether dietary protein intake worsens renal function in the general population has been discussed but not yet determined. We aimed to examine the longitudinal association between dietary protein intake and risk of incident chronic kidney ...
Sachimi Kubo   +13 more
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