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Computer Model Challenges Breast Cancer Treatment Strategy
(Informa UK Limited, 1994)
The breast cancer treatment failure rate remains unacceptably high. The current breast cancer treatment paradigm, based primarily on Gompertzian kinetics and animal models, advocates short-course, intensive chemotherapy ...
Utilization of Biomarker Data for Clinical and Environmental Intervention.
(1996)
Of the 189 air toxics listed in the Clean Air Act, a substantial number are important in potentially causing adverse health effects in several organ systems. Although the major health effects are manifested as respiratory ...
Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases
(Centers for Disease Control, 1996)
Although many who study emerging infections subscribe to social-production-of-disease theories, few have examined the contribution of social inequalities to disease emergence. Yet such inequalities have powerfully sculpted ...
Methylene Chloride Poisoning in a Cabinet Worker
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)
More than a million workers are at risk for methylene chloride exposure. Aerosol sprays and paint stripping may also cause significant nonoccupational exposures. After methylene chloride inhalation, significant amounts of ...
Alveolar Macrophage Interaction With Air Pollution Particulates
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1997)
We applied flow cytometric analysis to characterize the in vitro response of alveolar macrophages (AM) to air pollution particulates. Normal hamster AM were incubated with varying concentrations of residual oil fly ash ...
Predictors of Plasma Concentrations of DDE and PCBs in a Group of U.S. Women.
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)
We evaluated predictors of plasma concentrations of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), a metabolite of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a group of 240 women, controls from ...
Workplace exposure to passive smoking and risk of cardiovascular disease: summary of epidemiologic studies
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)
We reviewed the published epidemiologic studies addressing the relationship between workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and cardiovascular disease risk in three case-control studies and three cohort ...
Interactions between metals and microbial communities in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts.
(1998)
The fate of toxic metals in marine sediments depends on a combination of the physical, chemical, and biologic conditions encountered in any given environment. These conditions may vary dramatically, both spatially and ...
High breast milk levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) among four women living adjacent to a PCB-contaminated waste site
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1998)
As a consequence of contamination by effluents from local electronics manufacturing facilities, the New Bedford Harbor and estuary in southeastern Massachusetts is among the sites in the United States that are considered ...
Diet, nutrition, and avoidable cancer
(US Department of Health and Human Services, 1995)
In a 1981 review, Doll and Peto estimated that approximately 35% of cancer deaths in the United States were potentially avoidable by the modification of diet but that this percentage might be as low as 10% or as high as ...