منابع مشابه
Progress in lung cancer chemoprevention.
BACKGROUND Lung cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related deaths. Lung cancer mortality figures argue powerfully for new approaches to control this disease. The term chemoprevention can be defined as the use of specific natural or synthetic chemical agents to reverse, suppress, or prevent premalignancy from progressing to invasive cancer. METHODS Issues related to lung cancer chemop...
متن کاملChemoprevention of lung cancer. Problems and progress.
taxation. We have to create much more awareness of the smoking problem among health professionals than before, and one of the most important messages is the following: smoking cessation treatment is not only a matter of prevention, it is also a part of regular treatment of diseases and rehabilitation.2 At the 6th World Conference on Smoking and Health (November 1987), it was stated that cessati...
متن کاملProgress in breast cancer chemoprevention.
Over the past years there have been significant advances in breast cancer treatment and early detection. For the first time, a decrease in cancer mortality has been observed. Recently, much progress has been made in the understanding of carcinogenesis partly due to available new technologies to detect early molecular changes in the tissue. The knowledge of breast cancer carcinogenesis has provi...
متن کاملBreast cancer chemoprevention: little progress in practice?
1018 www.thelancet.com Vol 383 March 22, 2014 In The Lancet, Jack Cuzick and colleagues report the fi rst results from IBIS-II (International Breast cancer Intervention Study II), in which 3864 postmenopausal women at high risk of breast cancer were randomly assigned to receive the potent, non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor anastrozole or placebo every day for 5 years. After a median follow-up o...
متن کاملChemoprevention of Lung Cancer
3.6.1.1. For individuals at risk for lung cancer and for patients with a history of lung cancer, the use of aspirin is not recommended for primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention of lung Background: Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in men and women in the United States. Cigarette smoking is the main risk factor. Former smokers are at a substantially increased risk of deve...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Control
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1073-2748,1073-2748
DOI: 10.1177/107327480301000406