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Unveiling the HER2-low phenomenon: exploring immunohistochemistry and gene expression to characterise HR-positive HER2-negative early breast cancer
HER2-low breast cancer (BC) is a novel entity with relevant therapeutic implications, especially in hormone receptor (HR) positive BC. This study examines whether HER2 mRNA through the 21-gene assay, Oncotype ...
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Stroke care in the next decades: A projection derived from a community-based study in Umbria, Italy
Recently published data show that stroke incidence is no longer declining, while case fatality rates has had a less pronunced fall in recent years than in the past. Projections of the increasing number of elde...
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Parallelism in the mortality clustering of the most frequent cancer sites in Italy and in the Marche region
Clusters of selected cancer sites mortality, regarding Italy and the Marche region, were compared. Very similar associations were found both in males and in females, in particular between the alcohol-tobacco-r...
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Tobacco smoking, coffee, cocoa and tea consumption in relation to mortality from urinary bladder cancer in Italy
This paper examines changes in mortality from urinary bladder cancer in Italy during the years 1950-81 in relation to changes in smoking habits and in coffee, cocoa and tea consumption. The authors found that,...
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Esophageal cancer mortality: Relationship with alcohol intake and cigarette smoking in Italy
This paper examines changes with time in age-adjusted mortality from esophageal cancer for the years 1950–1981, in relation to changes in smoking habits and alcohol consumption. In both sexes the age-adjusted ...
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Mortality from prostate cancer in Italy: 1950–1979. Cross-sectional rates and cohort analysis
This paper studies prostate cancer mortality in Italy from 1950–1979 to evaluate its importance in relation to total cancers, examine the time trend for forecasting future mortality trends, and makes an attemp...
