Trends in Metastatic Breast and Prostate Cancer — Lessons in Cancer Dynamics  

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Welch, H. Gilbert ; Gorski, David H. ; Albertsen, Peter C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 373 no. 18 (Oct. 2015), page 1685-1687.

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Patients who present with metastatic cancer serve as powerful motivators for efforts to detect cancer early. Screening offers hope that cancer can be detected in an early, localized phase when it's more amenable to treatment. This hope is based on a paradigm attributed to William Stewart Halsted, which holds that cancer arises at a single location, grows there, and eventually migrates to local lymph nodes and then to more distant organs. If the Halstedian paradigm is correct, effective screening should allow cancers destined to metastasize to be identified at an earlier stage and reduce the incidence of cancers that first present as metastatic disease. Such a stage shift is typically viewed as necessary but not sufficient to enable screening to reduce mortality.

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