Trends in Breast Cancer by Race and Ethnicity
In this article, the American Cancer Society (ACS) describes trends in incidence, mortality, and survival rates of female breast cancer in the United States by race and ethnicit...
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Globalization, coca‐colonization and the chronic disease epidemic: can the Doomsday scenario be averted?
Abstract . Zimmet P (International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia). Globalization, coca‐colonization and the chronic disease epidemic: can the Doomsday scenario be ave...
Randomized Adjuvant Chemotherapy Trial in High-Risk, Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer Patients Identified by Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1
Using uPA and PAI-1, we have been able to classify about half of the patients with lymph node-negative breast cancer as low risk, for whom adjuvant chemotherapy may be avoided, ...
Size and Scaling in Human Evolution
Our general conclusion is simply stated: many lineages display phyletic size increase; allometric changes almost always accompany increase in body size. We cannot judge adaptati...
Decreases in Regional Cerebral Blood Flow with Normal Aging
Positron emission tomographic (PET) images of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) from 30 normal, resting volunteers aged 30 to 85 years were analysed to identify areas where rC...
Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of the grey wolf<i>Canis lupus</i>
Abstract The grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) and coyote ( C. latrans ) are highly mobile carnivores that disperse over great distances in search of territories and mates. Previous gen...
Clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease: Autopsy results in 150 cases
Abstract One hundred fifty autopsy brains from patients with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD) were examined pathologically. The brains were received consecutively o...
The Familial Transmission of Bipolar Illness
As part of the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression study, data were collected on 2225 first-degree relatives of 612 prob...
Hormone Therapy Failure in Human Prostate Cancer: Analysis by Complementary DNA and Tissue Microarrays
The combination of cDNA and tissue microarray technologies enables rapid identification of genes associated with progression of prostate cancer to the hormone-refractory state a...
Teaching thinking skills.
A course was developed to teach cognitive skills that apply to learning and intellectual performance independently of subject matter, stressing observation and classification, r...
ArrayExpress update--an archive of microarray and high-throughput sequencing-based functional genomics experiments
The ArrayExpress Archive (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress) is one of the three international public repositories of functional genomics data supporting publications. It includ...