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tamoxifen
tamoxifen , synthetic hormone used in the treatment of breast cancer . Introduced in 1978, tamoxifen is used to prevent recurrences of cancer in women who have already undergone surgery to remove their tumors. In 1998, a large study of healthy women at high risk for breast cancer showed that... Read more |
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Maud Slye
Maud Slye Maud Slye (1879-1954), a pathologist, researched the inheritability of cancer in mice. Maud Slye devoted her life to cancer research by investigating the inheritability of the disease in mice. Performing extensive breeding studies on the hereditary transmission of cancer, she kept... Read more |
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Hepatectomy
Hepatectomy Definition A hepactectomy is the surgical removal of the liver. Purpose Hepatectomies are performed to surgically remove tumors from the liver. Most liver cancers start in liver cells called "hepatocytes." The resulting cancer is called hepatocellular carcinoma or... Read more |
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cancer
cancer in medicine, common term for neoplasms, or tumors, that are malignant. Like benign tumors, malignant tumors do not respond to body mechanisms that limit cell growth. Unlike benign tumors, malignant tumors consist of undifferentiated, or unspecialized, cells that show an atypical cell... Read more |
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Clinical trials
Clinical trials Definition A clinical trial is a research study designed to answer specific medical questions regarding cancer care. Description The clinical trial is a scientific study that follows a written guideline (protocol) or recipe for treatment. It is the only scientific mechanism designed... Read more |
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Penile cancer
Penile cancer Definition Penile cancer is the growth of malignant cells on the external skin and in the tissues of the penis. Description Penile cancer is a disease in which cancerous cells appear on the penis. If left untreated, this cancer can grow and spread from the ... Read more |
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Endometrial cancer
Endometrial cancer Definition Endometrial cancer develops when the cells that make up the inner lining of the uterus (the endometrium) become abnormal and grow uncontrollably. Description Endometrial cancer (also called uterine cancer) is the fourth most common type of... Read more |
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Non-small cell lung cancer
Lung cancer, non-small cell Definition Non-small cell lung cancer is a disease in which the cells of the lung tissues grow uncontrollably and form tumors. Description There are two kinds of lung cancers, primary and secondary. Primary lung cancer starts in the lung itself, and is... Read more |
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Cisplatin
Cisplatin Definition Cisplatin, also known by the brand name Platinol-AQ, Cis-platinum, CDDP, or DDP, is a chemotherapymedicine used to treat certain types of cancer by destroying cancerous cells. Purpose Cisplatin is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... Read more |
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Uterine cancer
Uterine cancer Definition Uterine cancer can be divided into two primary forms, cervical and endometrial. Cancer of the cervix most often affects the neck of the cervix or the opening or the opening into the uterus from the vagina. Endometrial cancer affects the inside lining of the... Read more |
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Autopsies--Are They Really Important in This Era of High-Tech Medicine?
...percent--and the autopsy rate was an important...hospitals. Today, the autopsy rate has dropped...Association (JAMA) shows, the answer is...diagnoses (for cancer and all other causes...review of 1,625 autopsies of patients dying...diagnosis ... |
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Migrant's last days: Cancer-stricken in custody
...s last days: Cancer-stricken in...body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated...Tuesday, with an autopsy by the Rhode Island...whose cancer went undiagnosed in a California...Jersey; records ... |
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Estimating unknown transition times using a piecewise nonlinear mixed-effects...
...1990). Based on autopsy studies, it has...there are 10 million undiagnosed cases of prostate cancer in the U.S. male...progression of prostate cancer. Information critical...of those analyses show that the rate of...PSA trends in each ... |
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Autopsies becoming more rare, despite TV popularity.(Health Fitness)
...Television crime shows have helped popularize autopsies, but in reality...hospitals perform autopsies on only about...t turn up an undiagnosed ailment or other...hoped that an autopsy would provide...disease through an ... |
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Autopsies may be thriving on TV, but they're fading in real life
...Television crime shows have helped popularize autopsies, but in reality...hospitals perform autopsies on only about...t turn up an undiagnosed ailment or other...hoped that an autopsy would provide...disease through an ... |
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MEDICAL JOURNAL EDITOR URGES RETURN TO MORE FREQUENT AUTOPSIES
...reason that medical autopsy has become a rarity...who found that cancer specialists missed...225 patients, 111 cancers were either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed...patients. Of the 100, cancer was the immediate...of discarding the ... |
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Explaining the increasing incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer
...Their results show that the incidence...incidence of thyroid cancer, which has been...micropapillary thyroid cancers." A second...for thyroid cancer may lead to novel...incidence of thyroid cancer is due to increased...nonpapillary thyroid ... |
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Why Prostate Cancer May Not Run in Families.(Health)
...dying of prostate cancer has remained the...more prostate cancers are being detected...Most of these cancers would not have produced...something else. Autopsies show that 70 percent...60s have prostate cancer. Most never ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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MAGIC REALIST.(Unwind)
...In one, an Israeli woman who's been killed by a suicide bomb attack turns out -- an autopsy shows -- to have been riddled with undiagnosed cancer. A pathologist considers telling her husband, then decides to do so would offer no solace... |
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ABBOTT ANNOUNCES FIRST TREATMENT FOR AIDS-RELATED INFECTION
...systems, such as AIDS, cancer or transplant patients...although this infection may go undiagnosed in many patients. MAC has been found at autopsy in up to 50 percent of AIDS...of patients continued to show response after 12 weeks... |
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