CANCER PROGRESS 1960

Health Progress in the United States: 1900-1960

The Evolution of the Metazoa by Jovan Hadzi will undoubtedly be one of the most significant and certainly controversial books to have appeared in the zoological literature for many years. In this work, Hadzi presents a new system of classification of the entire animal kingdom but even more significantly proposes a radically new theory of the evolution of the Metazoa. Hadzi's views have develope...

Progress in clinical virology--1960 to 1980: a recollection of twenty years.

The field of clinical virology has changed dramatically over the past two to three decades. The breakthrough achieved in the early 1950s by Enders et al. [1], namely that poliovirus can be propagated in cultured cells, proved to be of enormous significance not only in the impact made on the control of poliomyelitis, but even more importantly upon the entire field of virology. The use of tissue ...

Racial disparities in stage-specific colorectal cancer mortality: 1960-2005.

OBJECTIVES We examined whether racial disparities in stage-specific colorectal cancer survival changed between 1960 and 2005. METHODS We used US Mortality Multiple-Cause-of-Death Data Files and intercensal estimates to calculate standardized mortality rates by gender and race from 1960 to 2005. We used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data to estimate stage-specific colorect...

Progress of cancer genomics

For hundreds of years, cancer has remained a mystery, threatening the life expectancy and quality of all human beings. Early studies of cancer concluded that all cancers are influenced by genetic variation (germline and/or somatic), environmental agents, and/or health behaviors. Thus, a comprehensive description of the human genome is essential in order to understand the biology of cancer. Over...

Progress in pediatric cancer.