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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"cancer mortality"”.
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Analysis of community cancer mortality rates
… to them to be an excessively high number of cancer cases. Some of these observations are brought to the attention of public health officials in the hope that an environmental cause within these communities may be discovered and subsequently eliminated. However, what appears to be a cluster of …
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Medical Underservice and Cancer Mortality Among Farmers in Illinois
… the potential impact by comparing standardized cancer mortality ratios (SMRs) among rural populations in a metropolitan county in Illinois with health care readily available within its boundaries to rural populations in two nonmetropolitan, medically underserved counties in the state. Four rural …
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Assessment of SDOH And AL Impact on Breast and Prostate Cancer Mortality
… load (AL) and influence breast and prostate cancer severity. Using electronic health record data, geocoded neighborhood disadvantage measures, and longitudinal biomarker profiles, I operationalized multi-subsystem AL (cardiovascular, metabolic, immune, neuroendocrine) across multiple …
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Screening for breast cancer in women under age 50: determinants of the effect on breast cancer mortality
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_215708342.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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A comparative analysis of age-dependent and birth year cohort-specific cancer mortality data between Japan and the United States
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, 1999.
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An evaluation of small-area statistical methods for detecting excess risk: with applications in breast and colon cancer mortality in Scotland 1986-1995
… Chapter 4. Chapter 4 provides an analysis of the mortality of breast and colon cancer in Scotland in the ten-year time period from 1986 to 1995. Using data provided by ISD Scotland, the analysis is carried out to identity any potential mortality clusters in both diseases. Chapter 5 provides a …
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Ultra-processed foods, plant and animal source, and all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in older adults in the United States: results from the Cardiovascular Health Study
… UPF intake, plant-, and animal-sourced UPF, and mortality outcomes in older adults. Methods: We conducted prospective analyses of 2,582 participants (median age: 77 years) in the Cardiovascular Health Study who completed a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in 1995-1996. We used responses from …
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PROGRESS IN CANCER INCIDENCE, MORTALITY, AND SURVIVAL
Cancer mortality has declined over the last three decades in most high-income countries reflecting improvements in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatments, and management. However, there are persisting and substantial differences in mortality, incidence, and survival worldwide. Using the World …
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Determination of the historical changes in primary and secondary risk factors for cancer using U.S. public health records
Overall cancer mortality rates have risen from about 4% of all deaths in the early 20th century to about 25% of all deaths by the end of the century in the United States. To assess any potential hypotheses for this increase required knowledge of the mortality rate changes specific to each form of …
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The association between air pollution and lung cancer in the north west of Adelaide: a case control study and air quality monitoring.
… North West (NW) metropolitan Adelaide have lung cancer mortality up to twice that expected from state averages. Previous international research investigating high lung cancer rates in similar shared industrial and residential areas have had inconsistent results. This case control study was …
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Carbon Nanotubes Attenuate Cancer and Improve Healing
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women and the second largest cause of their cancer mortality. Resection of the primary tumor can greatly improve the prognosis, but if any of the cancerous cells remain, the patient is still at risk. This work investigates the ability of high …
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Epidemiological investigations of liver cancer: biomarkers, reproductive factors and modifiable risk factors:
Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of deaths in many countries around the world therefore identifying new risk factors for liver cancer is a priority. The aim of this thesis was to investigate new risk factors for liver cancer and add new insights to previously identified liver cancer risk …
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Increasing breast cancer self-awareness and screening in a vulnerable population through faith-based community outreach
Breast cancer is one of the leading cancer diagnoses for women in the United States. Certain vulnerable populations are at an increased risk for breast cancer mortality, including homeless and African American women. Providing healthcare navigation, cancer education, and connecting with faith-based …
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The Relationship Between Select Variables and the Breast Cancer Screening Practices of a Convenient Sample of African-American Women From Grambling State University and the Willis-Knighton Neighborhood Clinic
One of the leading causes of mortality for African-American women is breast cancer. The national breast cancer mortality rate for African-American women is 28.0 per 100,000. However, African-American women residing in Northwest Louisiana have a breast cancer mortality rate of 34.5 per 100,000 …
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Breast Health and Mammography Screening in Older Women
Age-related health disparities in breast cancer screening are a public health concern. From 2002 to 2006, the median age for newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer was 61 years and the median age for breast cancer mortality was 68 years of age (Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results [SEER], …
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Coronary Heart Disease Mortality and long-term Exposure to Ambient Particulate Air Pollutants in Elderly Nonsmoking California Residents
… coronary heart disease (CHD), total cancer, and any mention of nonmalignant respiratory disease (NMRD) mortality.</p> <p>The health effects of long-term ambient air pollution have been studied with up to 30 years of follow-up in the AHSMOG cohort, a cohort of 6,338 nonsmoking white …
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Disparities in breast cancer subtype, staging, and access to mammography services in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region
… as a whole. It also has far higher breast cancer mortality rates than the nation. Black women in the Region have higher breast cancer mortality rates than white women in the Delta Region and have higher breast cancer mortality rates than black women in other parts of the country. More …
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Adoption of breast self-examination in socio-economically disadvantaged women: the effect of prompting, self-management, feedback, and supplementary training
Increased breast cancer mortality among socio-economically disadvantaged women is well documented. Also well documented is the utility of BSE as an economical means of early detection and, therefore, decreased breast cancer mortality. This study assessed health beliefs and breast cancer screening …
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Approaches to the spatial modelling of cancer incidence and mortality in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia, 1990 -2005
Cancer is one of potentially preventable and treatable diseases. Cancer analysis from different perspectives is necessary to provide the information for health research and the initiation of prevention and treatment programs. The purpose of this study was to analyse five top cancers in the Perth …
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A Review and Comparison of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Screening in Costa Rica and Guatemala in the Context of the Historical Development and Healthcare Infrastructure of Each Country
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women worldwide. Costa Rica has rates of breast cancer and breast cancer survival comparable to those of highly developed nations and has had tremendous success in the prevention and treatment of the disease. Guatemala has made …
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