(Endo)Cannabinoids and Gynaecological Cancers

1Epidemiology of gynaecological cancers

Epidemiology is the basic science underpinning public health and clinical medicine. It describes the occurrence of health-related states or events (incidence, prevalence), quantifies the risk of disease (relative risk) and its outcome (prognosis, survival, mortality), and postulates causal mechanisms for disease in populations (aetiology, prevention). The main function of epidemiology is to pro...

Screening Methods for Gynaecological Cancers

EVectiveness bulletin Management of gynaecological cancers

This paper is based on EVective Health Care 5(3), June 1999, which deals with cancers of the ovary, endometrium, and cervix. The bulletin summarises systematic reviews of research evidence used to inform national cancer guidance documents, published as Improving Outcomes in Gynaecological Cancers. 3 These publications are part of a series on improving services for the management of the major ca...

Age-related mTOR in gynaecological cancers

Aging is an uninvited sequel of organismal growth and the ultimacy of which is death. At the molecular level, organismal aging is a conversion from cellular quiescence to senescence state. Age is a major risk factor for many diseases including diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. Other consequences of aging are not defined by diseases, but rather considered ‘stages of lif...

Pattern of gynaecological cancers in Ghana.

OBJECTIVE To determine the relative frequencies of gynaecological cancers in Ghana, age and parity distribution, stage of disease at presentation and the influence of age and parity on stage at presentation. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana. SUBJECTS Cases of gynaecological cancers seen in a fifty two month period. RESULTS Cervic...