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Patients' and families' opinions via suggestion boxes for improving hospital care for cancer patients: Analysis of 3419 cases over 11 years

open access: yesCancer Reports, 2022
Background There has been a paradigm shift in cancer treatment from curing disease to both curing disease and caring for patients. In terms of care for patients, the opinions of patients and their families are important for improving medical services ...
Kenji Takao   +4 more
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Multi-syndrome, multi-gene risk modeling for individuals with a family history of cancer with the novel R package PanelPRO

open access: yeseLife, 2021
Identifying individuals who are at high risk of cancer due to inherited germline mutations is critical for effective implementation of personalized prevention strategies.
Gavin Lee   +6 more
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Acromegaly and the risk of cancer

open access: yesPathophysiology, 2001
Recent studies suggest that acromegaly might predispose to an increased risk of benign and malignant neoplasms, thus influencing the final outcome of the disease. The exact mechanism of neoplastic events in acromegaly has not been completely clarified. Several studies indicate an autocrine-paracrine role for growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth ...
Bogdan, Marek   +5 more
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Education and cancer risk [PDF]

open access: yesLabour Economics, 2014
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an education reform expanded compulsory schooling during the ...
Leuven, E., Plug, E., Rønning, M.
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RnBeads 2.0: comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data

open access: yesGenome Biology, 2019
DNA methylation is a widely investigated epigenetic mark with important roles in development and disease. High-throughput assays enable genome-scale DNA methylation analysis in large numbers of samples.
Fabian Müller   +6 more
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Genome-wide genetic and epigenetic analyses of pancreatic acinar cell carcinomas reveal aberrations in genome stability

open access: yesNature Communications, 2017
Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive exocrine tumor with largely unknown biology. Here, the authors perform genome- and epigenome-wide analyses from normal and ACC pancreatic tissue that identify aberrations in genome stability and ...
Cornelia Jäkel   +15 more
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Psoriasis and the Risk of Cancer

open access: yesJournal of Investigative Dermatology, 1982
To test the validity of the common hypothesis that patients with psoriasis have an inherently lower susceptibility to cancer, we prospectively studied 1367 patients with severe psoriasis who enrolled in a clinical trial of oral methoxsalen photochemotherapy for treatment of psoriasis for an average of 3.2 yr.
Stern, Robert   +2 more
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Design and implementation of an Internet‐Based cancer risk assessment tool: Use over 10 years

open access: yesCancer Medicine, 2023
Background Prevention and early intervention can improve survival and quality of life across all cancers. Patient understanding of risk factors and associated actionable lifestyle changes and screening programs is not well understood by clinicians ...
Michael J. LaRiviere   +10 more
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Suppression of indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 expression by promoter hypermethylation in ER-positive breast cancer

open access: yesOncoImmunology, 2017
Kynurenine formation by tryptophan-catabolic indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) plays a key role in tumor immune evasion and inhibition of IDO1 is efficacious in preclinical models of breast cancer. As the response of breast cancer to immune checkpoint
Dyah L. Dewi   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carcinogenesis from chronic exposure to radio-frequency radiation

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
The past two decades have seen exponential growth in demand for wireless access that has been projected to continue for years to come. Meeting the demand would necessarily bring about greater human exposure to microwave and radiofrequency (RF) radiation.
James C. Lin
doaj   +1 more source

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