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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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cancer zodiacal constellation of the Crab XIV; malignant tumour XVII. — L.
cancer crab, creeping ulcer, after Gr.
karkínos crab,
karkinōma CARCINOMA.
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Cancer control policy in Australia.(Commentary)(Report)
Magazine article from: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...targets within the cancer control plans have...care, specific cancers, and frameworks...strategic approaches to cancer control, for all cancers, at the national...association of cancer specialists...guidelines for most cancers. Mo
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Ovarian Cancer; Facts to Know.(care and treatment)(Disease/Disorder overview)
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Cancer survival in California farmworkers.(Report)
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; ...certain types of cancer including leukemia, lymphoma and cancers of the brain...men was prostate cancer followed by lung...colorectal and stomach cancers. These four cancers...frequently diagnosed cancers while colorectal and lung cancer were the third...
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Cancer no longer a death sentence
Newspaper article from: Schaumburg Review (IL); 4/29/1999; 700+ words
; ...Between 1990 and 1995, cancer incidence and death...dropped for all types of cancers combined, reversing...trend of increasing cancer cases and deaths in...However, for some cancers, including cervical cancer, the best treatment...
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Cancer Rates Drop, Survival Extended
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...treat a range of cancers in the United Slates...both lower rates of cancer and longer survival...overall observed cancer incidence rates dropped...death rates from all cancers combined dropped...and 8 of the top 15 cancers in women. For the...in decades, lung cancer death rates ...
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; ...Memorial Sloan-Kettering's cancer prevention center will learn that many cancers can, in fact, be prevented...the early signs and symptoms of cancer and they almost certainly will have a cancer screening test, like a colonoscopy...
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Cancer screening to be expanded and waiting times to be further reduced.
M2 Presswire; 9/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...determined to go further on cancer waiting times and to improve early detection rates for cancer patients. Every year, millions...cervical, breast and bowel cancers. Most importantly, those found to have cancer will have a better chance of...
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Cancer Patients Nationwide Can More Easily Navigate Health Care System Thanks to the American Cancer Society and AstraZeneca.
PR Newswire; 2/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...Funding and Support for 50 New American Cancer Society 'Patient Navigator Program...PRNewswire/ -- AstraZeneca and the American Cancer Society today announced a strategic collaboration...an initiative to assist individual cancer patients in negotiating the health care...
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Identifying related cancer types based on their incidence among people with multiple cancers.(Methodology)
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; ...associated with a previous cancer. Cancers of the prostate are...of second primary cancers in British Columbia...expected number for each cancer type ignores a person...multiple primary cancers. We did this using records of cancer diagnoses between...
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Cancer-related deaths dropping; Lung cancer remains the top killing malignancy
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; ...major milestone for cancer patients, and the...10 percent - for cancers of the prostate...kidney and breast cancers. What does that...diagnosed with prostate cancer will live five years...Even with colorectal cancer, where good tests...When looking at all cancers combined, black...
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Cancer
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...older. The most common cancers are skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer...and blood and lymph node cancer (leukemia and lymphomas...included among the 12 major cancers that affect most Americans. The term cancer derives from the observation...
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Anal Cancer
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...400 cases of anal cancer were diagnosed in the...States in 2000. Anal cancer accounts for 1.5% of the cancers of the digestive system...62 years. Most anal cancers are squamous cell carcinomas...men to develop anal cancer. Anal cancer is more...
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Cancer Prevention
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...additional 20, 000 cancer deaths were due...consumption . All cancers caused by smoking...factors for specific cancers continues. Lifestyle and cancer Nutrition The relationship...certain types of cancers. According to the American Cancer Society, the single...
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Endometrial Cancer
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...than 95% of uterine cancers arise in the endometrium...common type of uterine cancer is adenocarcinoma...differentiated endometrial cancers are often associated...incidence of endometrial cancer in the United States...other gynecologic cancers. Those with the...nonpolyposis colorectal ...
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Gynecologic Cancers
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...Gynecologic cancer carries the Gynecologic cancers Cancer type Occurs in Tumor types Endometrial cancer...cervix to the vagina would be "primary cervical cancer." Types of cancers Ovarian cancer is the second most common cancer of the female...
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