Search for dissertations about: "Neoplasms: mortality"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words Neoplasms: mortality.
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1. Mortality in transitional Vietnam
Abstract : Understanding mortality patterns is an essential pre-requisite for guiding public health action and for supporting development of evidence-based policy. However, such information is not sufficiently available in Vietnam. READ MORE
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2. Liver metastases from colorectal cancer. Different strategies and outcomes
Abstract : Patients with colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) increasingly undergo liver resections. The belief is that the resection or ablation of a tumor, when possible, is the only possibility of a cure. READ MORE
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3. Early life influences on adult organ function, health and disease, including data from Swedish population-based cohorts
Abstract : Prenatal insults or adverse events during the in-utero period may lead to suboptimal function of adult organs because of the impairment of critical organ development and growth, as linked to lower birth weight. This may ultimately predispose the individual to the later onset of some diseases in adulthood, a process known as Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). READ MORE
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4. Troubled transitions : Social variation and long-term trends in health and mortality in Estonia
Abstract : This thesis is about social variation and long-term trends in health and mortality in Estonia. After five decades of Soviet occupation Estonia’s independence was re-established in 1991 on the basis of the historical continuity of its statehood. READ MORE
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5. Clinical and epidemiological studies in myeloproliferative neoplasms
Abstract : Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), including polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF), are clonal hematopoietic disorders characterized by excessive terminally differentiated myeloid cells. MPNs can progress to secondary myelofibrosis or acute myeloid leukemia (AML)/myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). READ MORE