Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for men, and the second-most common cause for women, after breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. In 1997, for example, 164,100 new cases were diagnosed in the U.S. and 156,900 people died from the cancer. Lung cancer...
Questionnaires were sent to 9771 men and women aged ⩾50 years, registered at seven GP practices across London, the South East and the North West of England in April 2012 and October 2013. All patients ⩾50 years without a cancer diagnosis and deemed suitable by the doctor (e.g., did...
patients are also invited to participate in an on-going survey about the circumstances leading to their diagnosis (presence/absence of symptoms; type of symptom(s) and date(s) of onset; date medical advice first sought (help-seeking); summary of important experiences in the time before diagnosi...
Sociodemographic inequalities in the stage of diagnosis and cancer survival may be partly due to differences in the appraisal interval (time from noticing a bodily change to perceiving a reason to discuss symptoms with a health-care professional). A numb
This analysis aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of a FDC tablet of solifenacin 6 mg plus TOCAS relative to tolterodine plus tamsulosin given concomitantly, from the perspective of the UK National Health Service (NHS). Methods A Markov model was developed for men aged ≥45 years with LUTS...
practitioner (GP), 9% (20% of those in the eligible age range for screening) were diagnosed through the National Health Service (NHS) Bowel Cancer Screening Programme and 20% were only diagnosed following an emergency presentation (referral source data were missing for 16% of patients) [2]....
I have cancer – cancer does not have me! “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will...
practitioner (GP), 9% (20% of those in the eligible age range for screening) were diagnosed through the National Health Service (NHS) Bowel Cancer Screening Programme and 20% were only diagnosed following an emergency presentation (referral source data were missing for 16% of patients) [2]....