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Human Papiloma Virus in lung cancer tissue. Experience at the Calderon Guardia Hopsital
(2012-11-20)
Background: The epidemiology of lung cancer, a major cause of morbidity throughout the world and the leading cause of mortality among adult men and women, has changed substantially in the past few years. Some of these ...
Cancer in Costa Rica
(1989-02-01)
Data from the national tumor registry of Costa Rica for the yeas
1979-1983 have been used to calculate incidence rates for the major
cancer sites by age, sex, urban-rural residence, and geographic region.
Recent trends ...
Cáncer: Mortalidad e incidencia en Costa Rica
(1986)
Los patrones de morbilidad y mortalidad por cáncer varían considerablemente entre países; sin embargo, las razones para explicar este fenómeno no parecen claras. En algunos casos influyen los servicios de salud, pero la ...
Descriptive epidemiology of cancer of the breast and uterine cervix in Costa Rica
(1987)
Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death in Costa Rica, with malignant tumors of the stomach, uterus, lung, and breast (in that order) causing the most deaths. In terms of incidence, cancers of the uterine ...
Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients
(2016)
Mortality in the United States is 18% higher than in Costa Rica among adult men and 10% higher among middle-aged women, despite the several times higher income and health expenditures of the United States. This comparison ...
Paracoccidiodomicosis (Reporte de siete casos)
(Revista Médica de Costa Rica y Centroamérica, tomo 65, número 582, p.41-47, 2008)
Paracoccidiomycosis is an illness produced by dimorphic fungi (Paracoccidiodes Brasiliensis) that can affect various organs, among them skin and mucous membranes, lymph nodes, lungs, bones, adrenal glands, the vascular and ...
New concepts to improve resolution and sensitivity of molecular cytogenetic diagnostics by multicolor fluorescense in situ hybridization
(2001)
Background: Routine application of multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (M-FISH) technology for molecular cytogenetic diagnostics has been hampered by several technical limitations. First, when using chromosome-specific ...
Disease and weight loss: a prospective study of middle-aged and older adults in Costa Rica and England
(2015)
Objective. To determine whether disease predicts weight loss in population-based studies, as this may confound the relationship between weight and mortality. Materials and methods. We used longitudinal data from the Costa ...