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2020
Achieving cancer health equity is a national imperative. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States and in North Carolina (NC), where the disease disproportionately impacts traditionally underrepresented race and ethnic groups, those ...
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January 1, 2019
Direct causes of most individual human cancers will not be identifiable, but there is incontrovertible evidence that certain chemical agents, radiation, and biologic agents contribute to the overall incidence of cancer. A traditional paradigm has classifie ...
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January 1, 2017
The current momentum in health care is to improve quality and access to care by empowering patients, regardless of socioeconomic level, education, race, or diagnosed disease, to take a leading role in their health care. Patient Navigation was initially dev ...
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January 1, 2005
All tissues have a rate at which cells naturally die, while other cells divide to take their place. The skin, for example, consists of large numbers of cells that are dying or dead and are constantly sloughed off, while new layers of skin regenerate by cel ...
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