In this issue, queries and responses are presented addressing symptoms of liver cancer, what type of death to expect from lung cancer, how to help a terminally ill patient just wants to die now, and the clinical course and problems associated with glioblastoma.William...
The aim of this article is twofold: (a) to provide insight into ten-year trends in the characteristics of patients who died from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands; (b) to show how national death statistics, derived from physicians' death certificates, can be used in this ...
Population-based study on use of chemotherapy in men with castration resistant prostate cancer Chemotherapy prolongs life and relieves symptoms in men with castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). There is limited information on a population leve... IF Lissbrant,H Garmo,A Widmark,... - 《Ac...
Dying with Cancer: Patients' Function, Symptoms, and Care Preferences as Death Approaches Dying with cancer: patients' function, symptoms, and care preferences as death approaches. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2000; 48(5 suppl 1):S110-21... EP Mccarthy,RS Phillips,Z Zhong,... - 《Journal of the...
Worldwide, "the No. 1 leading cause for gastric cancer is an infection with a bacteria called Helicobacter pylori," he adds. The bacteria is more common in other parts of the world where rates of stomach cancer are higher. Stomach cancer sympt...
while reproducing without limit. If enough cells become cancerous, the organism dies. (Although I am primarily concerned with human cancer, it should be noted that other animals and even plants fall victim to cancer. Laboratory rodents protected from predators & infection usually die of cancer.)...
More From Britannica cancer: Apoptosis and cancer development In adult animals apoptosis is used to remove cells that have become a threat to survival. Such cells can includecancercells or cells that are infected withbacteriaor avirus. Apoptosis also removes cells that are normal but no longer ne...
(RNA) molecules, could directly participate in mRNA expression or inhibit the translation processes from regulating the related-protein level, which was also associated with cell apoptosis, proliferation, and metastasis. Puerarin, a flavonoid compound, had been observed in bladder cancer cell lines to...
Firefighters are regularly exposed to concentrated carcinogens in the air, soot and tar at a fire ground – a likely cause leading to fire members aged 55 to 59 seeing the brunt of cancer symptoms, and being forced to take time off through time-loss claims. ...
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