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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bleeding, prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss, and a change in bowel movements. While these symptoms may indicate cancer, they can also have other causes. Over 100 types of cancers affect humans.Tobacco use is the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths. Another 10% are due to obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity or excessive drinking of alcohol. Other factors …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English
Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …
Hartson. We were doing NIH funded research on cancer. My professor looked at a sequence of DNA in E … to corrupted DNA cancer cells in animals. Simple. Mess with motility, stop cancer. I was hired to help …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …
accident by what it is not: “not a dis- ease like cancer, not an act of God like the weather, not an act …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …
shamans).22 Herbs were used for disorders including cancer and influenza as well as more minor ailments. With …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 18 June 2024 English
Meet the brilliant mavericks who invented the future of medicine and saved the lives of millions.The Essence of Invention tells the story of medical invention, from the development of anesthesia …
covered graft was for a patient whose head and neck cancer had eroded into his carotid artery. The pa- tient … the bacteria. They also observed that as stomach cancer developed on a background of gastritis, H. pylori … pylori had to be the root cause of the cancer, and that killing the bacteria would prevent it from developing … perception of a medical condition.”13 Cases of stomach cancer have all but disappeared in the West because of …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 11 June 2024 English
Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …
how we might become a better Taurus, Gemini, or Cancer. Other patterns of Wholeness you’ll come across …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English
An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …
life. Wife gone, kids won’t see him. Stage four cancer, too, more or less palliative. So he hits all …
CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 29 May 2024 English
Health Technology Assessment
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 May 2024 English
Kieran has produced a masterpiece for our masterpieces.
stories that resonated nationally — racial profiling, cancer care and systemic intuitional problems in Canada’s …
Council of Canadians · 24 May 2024 English
That promise, however, is threatened by a lack of clarity in the legislation on the model of pharmacare adopted, a lack of funding needed to ensure a swift roll out …
commissioned by Heart & Stroke and the Canadian Cancer Society, found that 19% of Canadians said their …
Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Health and Community Services · 24 May 2024 English
Is the patient a beneficiary of the NLPDP? Yes No If the answer is NO to any of the above questions, patient does not meet the NLPDP criteria. [...] If …
moderate immunosuppression, such as: Treatment for cancer, including solid tumors Treatment with significantly …