Tumor Treating Fields: Adhesive patches attach to the chest to generate electrical waves that disrupt the cancer’s ability to spread. It has minimal side effects and is often combined with chemotherapy. Palliative Care: Describes any treatment that focuses on pain management and improving quality of...
A model that best describes PSA evolution is a prerequisite to the establishment of decision-making criteria for abandoning active surveillance (i.e. a strategy that involves close monitoring) in early stage prostate cancer. Thus, establishing empirically the type of PSA process is a first step ...
This reference describes that smoking is associated with an increased mutation burden and with multiple distinct mutational signatures. CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar George, J. et al. Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer. Nature 524, 47–53 (2015). This is the ...
This is a statistic because it describes a population, in this case the population of men in the world. In real life, we never survey everyone — asking all 3+ billion men in the world isn’t possible, so when you read a fact like this about the “world”, it is always a ...
Shohini Gose quantum physicist says in her TED talk that quantum physics describes the behaviour of atoms and fundamental particles, like electrons or photons. A quantum computer operates by controlling the behaviour of these particles, which is very different from the way our traditional computers wo...
What is a brain lesion? A brain lesion describes damage or destruction to any part of the brain. It may be due to trauma or any other disease that can cause inflammation, malfunction, or destruction of brain cells or brain tissue. A lesion may be localized to one part of the brain, or...
Now, taking a gap year or entering the workforce first to gain other experience is becoming more common – which she describes as a "double-edged sword." "There's some good parts about it," Keeley adds. "I think people enjoy being back in a school environment. You go to...
Vaginismusdescribes involuntary contractions or spasms of the muscles surrounding the vagina. These muscle contractions make the vagina very narrow and can make medical exams and sexual activity painful or impossible.15 There is no single cause, but several possible causes include:15 ...
but this time it is largely due to human activity. The extinction rate of species ishundreds or thousands of times fasterthan the estimated “background” rate seen over the last tens of millions of years.A recent UN reportdescribes the “overwhelming evidence” of this “ominous picture” and...
White nails, also known as leukonychia, describes fingernails that are partially or completely white in color. The white color could be the result of several things such as trauma,anemia, dietary deficiencies, heart or kidney disease, or even poisoning. ...