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Are the blood vessels healthy in adult survivors of childhood cancers?
Credit: FatCamera. Getty Images. iStock. Survival of children with cancers has improved significantly over the past five decades, with an increase in the 5-year survival from less than half in the 1960s to more than 80% in the present era. Nonetheless, the use of chemotherapeutic agents, in particular anthracyclines, in the treatment of childhood cancers…
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Highlights of the BMC series: December 2018
BMC International Health and Human Rights: Celebrating Human Rights Day Human Rights Day is held on the 10th December, the date that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark this occasion, Professor Siroos Mirzaei, an Associate Editor for BMC International Health and Human rights and Head of the…
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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: Highlighting cervical cancer research at BMC
HPV vaccination. Credit: Benjamin Stratton, US Air Force. January marks Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and, in recognition of this, we are proud to present a range of some of the latest cervical cancer research published across BMC’s oncology journals. Despite being highly preventable through early screening methods and vaccination, cervical cancer remains the fourth most common…
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Cervical Cancer Awareness Quiz
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Succeeding as a woman in biomedical engineering
Tell us a bit about your career as a scientist and Professor and what a typical day looks like for you. What is the most rewarding part of your role? As a scientist and a professor, my typical day is focused on teaching the younger generation of engineering students and expanding on my own research.…
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Understanding humans – the key to African swine fever control
The 4 epidemiologic cycles of African swine fever. 1) Sylvatic cycle: the common warthog, bushpig, and soft ticks of Ornithodoros spp. 2) The tick–pig cycle: soft ticks and domestic pigs. 3) The domestic cycle: domestic pigs and pig-derived products (pork, blood, fat, lard, bones, bone marrow, hides). 4) The wild boar–habitat cycle: wild boar, pig-…
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Surprises galore – Bugbitten’s New Year quiz
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Insight into blood cancer using genetic correlation
We often talk of the characteristics passed on from our families – be it our Dad’s hairline, our Grandmother’s nose or our Uncle’s musical talent. These characteristics can be influenced by our environment or by the genetic makeup we inherit. It is possible to quantify the effect of our genetic makeup on the ‘heritability’ of…