The Decrease in Breast-Cancer Incidence in 2003 in the United States
An initial analysis of data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries shows that the age-adjusted incidence rate of brea...
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Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use, and Tobacco Control
Although the decrease in overall cancer incidence and death rates is encouraging, large state and regional differences in lung cancer trends among women underscore the need to m...
National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer, November 1-3, 2000
The panel concludes that decisions regarding adjuvant hormonal therapy should be based on the presence of hormone receptor protein in tumor tissues. Adjuvant hormonal therapy sh...
THE NUMBER OF HETEROZYGOUS NUCLEOTIDE SITES MAINTAINED IN A FINITE POPULATION DUE TO STEADY FLUX OF MUTATIONS
N natural populations, it is expected that there is a constant supply of muta-I tions in each generation.These mutations may have different persistence depending on their fitnes...
Decline in Cardiovascular Mortality
If the control of infectious diseases was the public health success story of the first half of the 20th century, then the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease and st...
Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire
This book reviews the experimental literature on how survey questions behave as well as the lore of professional experience and culls from them those guiding principles and spec...
Solar fusion cross sections. II. The<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math>chain and CNO cycles
The available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production are summarized an...
The novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV) uses the SARS-coronavirus receptor ACE2 and the cellular protease TMPRSS2 for entry into target cells
Abstract The emergence of a novel, highly pathogenic coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, in China, and its rapid national and international spread pose a global health emergency. Coronaviru...
The anatomy of melancholia – focal abnormalities of cerebral blood flow in major depression
Synopsis Using positron emission tomography (PET) and 15 Oxygen, regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured in 33 patients with primary depression, 10 of whom had an assoc...
Multifactorial Analysis of Differences Between Sporadic Breast Cancers and Cancers Involving BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations
Our study has identified key features of the histologic phenotypes of breast cancers in carriers of mutant BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. This information may improve the classification...
Meeting Highlights: International Consensus Panel on the Treatment of Primary Breast Cancer
Journal Article Meeting Highlights: International Consensus Panel on the Treatment of Primary Breast Cancer Get access Aron Goldhirsch, Aron Goldhirsch Search for other works by...
THE CORRELATION‐BASED LAW OF EFFECT<sup>1</sup>
It is commonly understood that the interactions between an organism and its environment constitute a feedback system. This implies that instrumental behavior should be viewed as...