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  2. Occupational hazards in dentistry - Wikipedia

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    [20] [22] About 84.9% of dental practitioners among those attending a health screening program in the annual ADA session in San Francisco, California, were found to restore teeth with 100–200 dental amalgam restorations in a week, and about 4.2% did a minimum of 50 dental amalgam fillings in a week. [22]

  3. Paclitaxel - Wikipedia

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    Paclitaxel, sold under the brand name Taxol among others, is a chemotherapy medication used to treat ovarian cancer, esophageal cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, cervical cancer, and pancreatic cancer. [11]

  4. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Chemotherapy is one of the major categories of the medical discipline specifically devoted to pharmacotherapy for cancer, which is called medical oncology. [1] [2] The term chemotherapy now means the non-specific use of intracellular poisons to inhibit mitosis (cell division) or to induce DNA damage (so that DNA repair can augment chemotherapy ...

  5. Oral cancer - Wikipedia

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    Oral cancer staging is an assessment of the degree of spread of the cancer from its original source. [50] It is one of the factors affecting both the prognosis and the potential treatment of oral cancer. [50] The evaluation of squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth and pharynx staging uses the TNM classification (tumor, node, metastasis). This is ...

  6. Cancer - Wikipedia

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    The total health care expenditure on cancer in the US was estimated to be $80.2 billion in 2015. [245] Even though cancer-related health care expenditure have increased in absolute terms during recent decades, the share of health expenditure devoted to cancer treatment has remained close to 5% between the 1960s and 2004.

  7. Screening (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The best studies for assessing whether a screening test will increase a population's health are rigorous randomized controlled trials.When studying a screening program using case-control or, more usually, cohort studies, various factors can cause the screening test to appear more successful than it really is. A number of different biases ...

  8. Cancer screening - Wikipedia

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    If the cancer screening does not change the treatment outcome, the screening only prolongs the time the individual lived with the knowledge of their cancer diagnosis. This phenomenon is called lead-time bias. [14] A useful screening program reduces the number of years of potential life lost and disability-adjusted life years lost. However ...

  9. Dental public health - Wikipedia

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    Dental Public Health (DPH) is a para-clinical specialty of dentistry that deals with the prevention of oral disease and promotion of oral health. [1] [2] Dental public health is involved in the assessment of key dental health needs and coming up with effective solutions to improve the dental health of populations rather than individuals.

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