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Epidemiology, prevention and public health

This section aims to consider publications which focus on all aspects of cancer epidemiology including risk factors for disease initiation and development, social determinants, environmental, behavioural, and occupational correlates, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community.

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  1. The internet portal http://​www.​brustkrebs-studien.​de (BKS) was launched in 2000 by the German Society of Senology (DGS) and the Baden-Württemberg Insti...

    Authors: Markus Wallwiener, Christian W Wallwiener, Sara Y Brucker, Andreas D Hartkopf, Tanja N Fehm and Julia K Kansy

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:663

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Survival time for lung cancer is poor with over 90% of patients dying within five years of diagnosis primarily due to detection at late stage. The main objective of this study was to evaluate Fourier transform...

    Authors: Paul D Lewis, Keir E Lewis, Robin Ghosal, Sion Bayliss, Amanda J Lloyd, John Wills, Ruth Godfrey, Philip Kloer and Luis AJ Mur

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:640

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) comprises 31% of lymphomas in the United States. Although it is an aggressive type of lymphoma, 40% to 50% of patients are cured with treatment. The study objectives were ...

    Authors: Robert Griffiths, Michelle Gleeson, Kevin Knopf and Mark Danese

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:625

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  4. In the US, foreign-born Hispanics tend to live in socioeconomic conditions typically associated with later stage of breast cancer diagnosis, yet they have lower breast cancer mortality rates than their US-born...

    Authors: Theresa HM Keegan, Thu Quach, Sarah Shema, Sally L Glaser and Scarlett L Gomez

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:603

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Intrinsic to "Patient-Centered Care" is being respectful and responsive to individual patient preferences, expressed needs, and personal values. Establishing a patient's preferences for active and aggressive i...

    Authors: Vincent Maida, Jonathan Peck, Marguerite Ennis, Navjot Brar and Alexandria R Maida

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:592

    Content type: Research article

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  6. The single nucleotide polymorphism rs7566605, located in the promoter of the INSIG2 gene, has been the subject of a strong scientific effort aimed to elucidate its possible association with body mass index (BMI)....

    Authors: Daniele Campa, Anika Hüsing, James D McKay, Olga Sinilnikova, Ulla Vogel, Anne Tjønneland, Kim Overvad, Jakob Stegger, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Nathalie Chabbert-Buffet, Guy Fagherazzi, Antonia Trichopoulou, Dimosthenis Zylis, Erifili Oustoglou, Sabine Rohrmann, Birgit Teucher…

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:563

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is rare in most parts of the world but is a common malignancy in southern China, especially in Guangdong. Dietary habit is regarded as an important modifier of NPC risk in severa...

    Authors: Wei-Hua Jia, Xiang-Yu Luo, Bing-Jian Feng, Hong-Lian Ruan, Jin-Xin Bei, Wen-Sheng Liu, Hai-De Qin, Qi-Sheng Feng, Li-Zhen Chen, Shugart Yin Yao and Yi-Xin Zeng

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:446

    Content type: Research article

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  10. Cigarette smoking is the most established risk factor, and genetic variants and/or gene promoter methylations are also considered to play an essential role in development of lung cancer, but the pathogenesis o...

    Authors: Yongtang Jin, Heyun Xu, Chunye zhang, Yunming Kong, Yong Hou, Yingchun Xu and Shaoli Xue

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:422

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups and single nucleotide polymorphisms (mtSNP) have been shown to play a role in various human conditions including aging and some neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic disea...

    Authors: Hezhi Fang, Lijun Shen, Tao Chen, Jing He, Zhinan Ding, Jia Wei, Jianchun Qu, Guorong Chen, Jianxin Lu and Yidong Bai

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:421

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a common autosomal dominant disorder with full penetrance and variable expression. The condition predisposes individuals to the development of malignant nervous system tumours, most...

    Authors: German Melean, Alba Marina Hernández, María Carmen Valero, Elisabete Hernández-Imaz, Yolanda Martín and Concepción Hernández-Chico

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:407

    Content type: Case report

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  13. Cancer patients may benefit from physical exercise programs. It is unclear, however, how sustained levels of physical activity are best achieved in this population. A systematic review was performed to summari...

    Authors: Ruud H Knols, Eling D de Bruin, Kei Shirato, Daniel Uebelhart and Neil K Aaronson

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:406

    Content type: Research article

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  14. The aims of this study were to determine the accuracy of concurrent core needle biopsy (CNB) and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for breast lesions and to estimate the false-negative rate using the two me...

    Authors: Yao-Lung Kuo and Tsai-Wang Chang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:371

    Content type: Research article

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