Napoleon probably died of stomach cancer

Epidemiology and trend of stomach cancer mortality in Iran

Background and aims: Stomach cancer is one of the most common cancers and the second cause of deaths among cancers worldwide cancer in the world. This study aimed to estimate the rate and trend of death from stomach cancer in Iranian population between 2006 and 2010. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional conducted using mortality data in Iranian popul...

Napoleon Polygons

An n-gon is called Napoleon if the centers of the regular ngons erected outwardly on its sides are vertices of a regular n-gon. In this note we obtain a new geometric characterization of Napoleon ngons and give a new proof of the well-known theorem of Barlotti Greber ([1], [3]) that an n-gon is Napoleon if and only if it is affine regular. Moreover, we generalize this theorem by obtaining an an...

Cancer of the Stomach

Profile of Napoleon A. Chagnon.

Nearly 20 years after leaving the Amazon for the last time, Napoleon Chagnon is retracing his first steps into the jungle. The University of Missouri anthropologist and sociobiologist is archiving and documenting three decades of fieldwork in the Amazonian rainforest for deposition in a University of Michigan data center. Preparing his notes and transcribing more than 250 hours of tape recordin...

Cancer of the Stomach

Carcinoma of the stomach, although its incidence is decreasing in the United States, is still a fatal disease. The results today are actually no better than they were 30 years ago because we are still making late diagnoses. In order to improve our results in the treatment of cancer of the stomach, we must perform fiberoptic gastroscopy in individuals over age 40 who have gastric complaints that...