Lack of function— Rather than acting like normal cells that transform themselves from an undifferentiated state, whereby new cells have no specific function, to differentiated, specialized cells (such as skin cells, liver cells, etc.), cancer cells never evolve from their immature, undifferentiated ...
CANCER preventionCERVICAL cancerCERVICAL cancer preventionHUMAN papillomavirus vaccinesSCHOOLGIRLSFRUMOVITZ, Michael MaxwellCervical cancer remains a major public health problem worldwide. Current data show that worldwide, there are >500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and >275,000 deaths annually. As ...
Comparison of Strategies to Prevent Breast Cancer Mortality.A health system should meet the health needs of the population. Given limited resources, choices are made about problems--typically, diseases--to attack. Then, choices must be made as to how to identify, treat, and ultimately, prevent ...
Cisplatin/Carboplatin Shortages Underscore Need for Strategies to Prevent Future Cancer Drug Disruptions Author(s): Chris RyanIn Partnership With: Balazs Halmos, MD, explains why a national effort is needed to mitigate current and future drug shortages in oncology and discusses ...
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Although there are several challenges before widespread vaccine use becomes a reality, this is an important development in the primary prevention of cervical cancer. Cervical screening is the most widely practiced approach to prevent invasive cervical cancer by detecting and treating women with high-...
Thus, the objective of this study was to develop and apply a decision-analytic model for the evaluation of the long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different strategies to prevent breast and ovarian cancer in women with BRCA-1/2 mutations in Germany. ...
To help prevent dormant cancer cells from being reactivated, scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research are investigating what makes cancer cells dormant. But they say isolating the cells to study them has been a challenge—they are rare, often less than one in hundreds of thousands ...
Breast cancer prevention would be a side effect of the contraceptive method. Alternatively, tamoxifen, an antiestrogen, is known to prevent mammary carcinogenesis in animals and prevent the appearance of second primary breast cancers in women. This well tested therapeutic agent is currently being ...
Christine Sam, MD, discusses strategies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in geriatric patients with cancer and shared advice on how to overcome unique challenges faced in the care of this population. Christine Sam, MD The management of elderly patients with cancer during the...