منابع مشابه
Progress in Vaccination Against Cancer
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متن کاملCOVER ESSAY Mixed progress against lung cancer
Although tobacco smoking causes many diseases and aVects most of the organ systems in the body, lung cancer is typically the first condition that comes to mind when one considers the health impact of smoking. Lung cancer is also one of the most important and devastating illnesses caused by smoking, given its high incidence in populations where smoking is common, its high fatality rate, and the ...
متن کاملGlobal progress against cancer—challenges and opportunities
The last ten years have seen remarkable progress in cancer research. However, despite significant breakthroughs in the understanding, prevention, and treatment of cancer, the disease continues to affect millions of people worldwide. Cancer's complexity compounded with financial, policy and regulatory roadblocks has slowed the rate of progress being made against cancer. In this paper, we review ...
متن کاملDeclining Death Rates Reflect Progress against Cancer
BACKGROUND The success of the "war on cancer" initiated in 1971 continues to be debated, with trends in cancer mortality variably presented as evidence of progress or failure. We examined temporal trends in death rates from all-cancer and the 19 most common cancers in the United States from 1970-2006. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We analyzed trends in age-standardized death rates (per 100,0...
متن کاملProstatic Cancer
IN 1941 research in prostatic cancer received great impetus from the discovery by Huggins and his associates 1 that remarkable regression occurred clinically in the primary neoplasm and its metastases after castration or administration of estrogen. These findings were subsequently verified by others.2 Unfortunately, the gratifying improvement manifested by most patients treated in this manner h...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0007-9235
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.39.6.325