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GLOBOCAN 2012: Estimated cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence worldwide in 2012
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Economic burden of gastrointestinal cancer under the protection of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in a region of rural China with high incidence of oesophageal cancer: cross-sectional survey.
TL;DR: To evaluate the financial burden of oesophageal cancer under the protection of the new Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) and to provide evidence and suggestions to policymakers in a high‐incidence region in China.
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Out of the shadows: non-communicable diseases and palliative care in Africa
Richard A Powell,Zippy Ali,Emmanuel Luyirika,Richard Harding,Lukas Radbruch,Faith Mwangi-Powell +5 more
TL;DR: Four important challenges have to be addressed if palliative care is to contribute meaningfully to this NCD agenda: existing variation in the ability of countries to deal with NCDs per se; ensuring clinical partners are integrated effectively with palliatives care; agreeing implementation is linked to relevant national-level and patient-level metrics; and underpinning palliATIVE care and NCD care with a rigorous and locally relevant evidence base demonstrating appropriate, feasible and effective care.
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Fractal analysis of nuclear histology integrates tumor and stromal features into a single prognostic factor of the oral cancer microenvironment
Pinaki Bose,Nigel T. Brockton,Kelly Guggisberg,Steven C. Nakoneshny,Elizabeth N. Kornaga,Alexander C. Klimowicz,Mauro Tambasco,Joseph C. Dort +7 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that nFD analysis integrates known prognostic factors from the tumor microenvironment, such as proliferation and immune infiltration, into a single digital pathology-based biomarker using nuclear fractal dimension (nFD) analysis.
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Breast cancer risk perceptions of Turkish women attending primary care: a cross-sectional study
TL;DR: Turkish women visiting PHCC are overtly and overly optimistic with the result that nearly one third had had no mammography, and a need for further studies to understand why and how this optimism is maintained so that better screening strategies can be applied at PHCC.
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Factors Influencing Pap Screening Use Among African Immigrant Women.
TL;DR: Interventions addressing the barriers peculiar to this population may alleviate these barriers and improve Pap screening use in this population.