Cancer Statistics for African Americans
The American Cancer Society provides estimates on the number of new cancer cases and deaths, and compiles health statistics on African Americans in a biennial publication, Cance...
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The Systematic Review
In Brief This article is the first in a new series on systematic reviews from the Joanna Briggs Institute, an international collaborative supporting evidence-based practice in n...
Vasculae Reactions of Normal and Malignant Tissues in Vivo. I. Vascular Reactions of Mice to Wounds and to Normal and Neoplastic Transplants
Journal Article Vasculae Reactions of Normal and Malignant Tissues in Vivo. I. Vascular Reactions of Mice to Wounds and to Normal and Neoplastic Transplants Get access Glenn H. ...
Cancer Mortality in the United States by Education Level and Race
Cancer death rates vary considerably by level of education. Identifying groups at high risk of death from cancer by level of education as well as by race may be useful in target...
Trends in Breast Cancer by Race and Ethnicity
In this article, the American Cancer Society (ACS) describes trends in incidence, mortality, and survival rates of female breast cancer in the United States by race and ethnicit...
Globalization, coca‐colonization and the chronic disease epidemic: can the Doomsday scenario be averted?
Abstract . Zimmet P (International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia). Globalization, coca‐colonization and the chronic disease epidemic: can the Doomsday scenario be ave...
Big Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase 1 (BMK1) Is a Redox-sensitive Kinase
Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases are a multigene family activated by many extracellular stimuli. There are three groups of MAP kinases based on their dual phosphorylation...
Randomized Adjuvant Chemotherapy Trial in High-Risk, Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer Patients Identified by Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1
Using uPA and PAI-1, we have been able to classify about half of the patients with lymph node-negative breast cancer as low risk, for whom adjuvant chemotherapy may be avoided, ...
Decreases in Regional Cerebral Blood Flow with Normal Aging
Positron emission tomographic (PET) images of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) from 30 normal, resting volunteers aged 30 to 85 years were analysed to identify areas where rC...
Differential antitumor immunity mediated by NKT cell subsets in vivo
We showed previously that NKT cell–deficient TCR Jα18−/− mice are more susceptible to methylcholanthrene (MCA)-induced sarcomas, and that normal tumor surveillance can be restor...