Search Tag: National Cancer Institute

Women's Health

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2024 20 Jan

According to the  National Cancer Institute , the incidence of  cervical cancer  in the United States has been steadily declining in recent decades, from an estimated 11.2 cases per 100,000 women in 1992 to 6.7 cases per 100,000 women in 2019. Statistics from other parts of the world, however, paint a substantially different picture.    In the...Read more

Women's Health

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2023 14 Sep

A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that living in an area with high levels of particulate air pollution was associated with an increased incidence of breast cancer.   The research was conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute...Read more

IMAGING Management

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2019 07 May

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers develop an image-based computer model of tumour behavior that captures more of the complexity of cancer growth Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have created a similar approach to the one used by the navigation application  "Google Maps" to help more accurately compute and visualise the structural and...Read more