Should Data from Demographic Surveillance Systems Be Made More Widely Available to Researchers?

Should Data from Demographic Surveillance Systems Be Made More Widely Available to Researchers?

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Demographic surveillance--the process of monitoring births, deaths, causes of deaths, and migration in a population over time--is one of the cornerstones of public health research, particularly in investigating and tackling health disparities. An international network of demographic surveillance systems (DSS) now operates, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Thirty-e...

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Intraoperative radiation therapy deserves to be made more readily available to patients

Whole breast external beam radiotherapy is an effective adjuvant treatment for early breast cancer, and was a key factor in the move from mastectomy to breast-conserving surgery for women with low-risk disease. The logical development from partial surgical removal of the breast is partial breast radiotherapy. Several methods of delivery have been investigated, but as yet none has been widely ac...

scientific authors should be more careful

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