mortality risk (hereafter CMR; that is, the ratio between the number of cancer-related deaths and the total number of individuals whose postmortem pathological records were entered in the database,n = 11,840), a measure adopted by earlier comparative studies15,17. This measure relies solely...
Ovarian cancer (OvCa) is one of the deadliest gynecologic malignancies in females [1]. Like other solid tumors, cancer metastasis accounts for the great majority of cancer-associated deaths in the patients with OvCa [2]. Transcoelomic or peritoneal metastasis is the most preferential route of the...
Fig. 4: Randomised comparison of non-breast cancer mortality showing signifcantly fewer deaths in patients randomised to TARGIT-IORT(top graph), and non-randomised comparisons to assess the contribution to the difference seen in the randomised comparison: because of the delivery of TARGIT-IORT (...
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men worldwide and a leading cause of cancer deaths [1]. While survival rates for the localized disease are high, once the cancer metastasizes, the prognosis worsens drastically [2]. Therefore, a greater understanding of the mechanisms...
Cases of breast cancer are also on the rise in China, where it is becoming more common, with 12.2% of the female population in China currently living with the disease. Breast cancer is also responsible for 9.6% of deaths worldwide [4]. It is necessary to diagnose breast cancer as early...
Cancer has become one of the world’s most devastating diseases, with an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018 [1]. For many decades, cancer treatment has been limited to only a few strategies, such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Howeve...
[9] Survivaldependsonstage,overallhealth,andotherfactors.Overall, 15%ofpeopleintheUnitedStatesdiagnosedwithlungcancersurvivefive yearsafterthediagnosis. [10] Worldwide,lungcanceristhemostcommon causeofcancer-relateddeathinmenandwomen,andisresponsiblefor 1.38milliondeathsannually,asof2008. [11] Classification ...
As a result, uLMS accounts for almost 70% of uterine sarcoma deaths [5]. While early-stage disease is usually treated with hysterectomy, with or without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, chemotherapy is reserved for metastatic or recurrent disease [5, 6], but despite this, the 5-year survival...
Lung cancer is the worldwide leading cause of cancer mortality, with an estimated number of deaths reaching 1.8 million in 2020 alone (Sung et al.2021). Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 80–85% of lung cancer cases (Zappa and Mousa2016). NSCLC patients are typically diagnos...
Despite the advancements in treatments, breast cancer (BC) remains one of the major causes of mortality among women worldwide [1]. According to the statistical estimates for 2020, there were nearly 2.3 million new incidences of BC, resulting in about 685,000 deaths, accounting for 11.7% of ...