Part III: 7th Walter Hubert lecture. Pott and the prospects for prevention

Part II: Walter Hubert Lecture Chemotherapy of Upper Gastrointestinal Carcinoma

In the Western world, carcinoma of the pancreas has waxed as gastric cancer has waned, but both remain as major causes of cancer mortality. Carcinoma of the stomach dominates the cancer incidence of Asia and the Soviet Union. Cancers of the liver and oesophagus ravage the continent of Africa in almost epidemic proportions. In spite of the great human need which this problem presents, there are ...

Vision for the Future Sets NIEHS Priorities

ALMOST EXACTLY six years ago, Sir Richard Doll celebrated the bicentenary of Percival Pott's publication of his account of the chimney sweep's cancer, in the seventh Walter Hubert Lecture entitled "Pott and the prospects for prevention" (Doll, 1975). Its essence was to emphasize the role which has been played by observant clinicians and pathologists in the discovery of carcinogenic agents activ...

Part III TRENDS AND PROSPECTS IN THE CHINESE ECONOMY

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

The 7th Leonard Berg Symposium, Part 3.

One question that pervaded the 7th Leonard Berg Symposium is whether dominantly inherited AD really is the same disease as the common late-onset forms that afflict some 35 million people around the globe, according to a recent report. “Can we generalize from FAD to all AD?” asked Martin Rossor of University College, London. The question is important in part because the interest drug developers ...