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  2. Cachexia - Wikipedia

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    In people with cancer, cachexia is diagnosed from unintended weight loss of more than 5%. For cancer patients with a body mass index of less than 20 kg/m 2, cachexia is diagnosed after the unintended weight loss of more than 2%. [12] Additionally, it can be diagnosed through sarcopenia, or loss of skeletal muscle mass. [12]

  3. Cancer - Wikipedia

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    This notion is particularly strong in breast cancer culture. [240] One idea about why people with cancer are blamed or stigmatized, called the just-world fallacy, is that blaming cancer on the patient's actions or attitudes allows the blamers to regain a sense of control. This is based upon the blamers' belief that the world is fundamentally ...

  4. Signs and symptoms of cancer - Wikipedia

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    Because many symptoms of cancer are gradual in onset and general in nature, cancer screening (also called cancer surveillance) is a key public health priority. This may include laboratory work, physical examinations, tissue samples, or diagnostic imaging tests that a community of experts recommends be conducted at set intervals for particular ...

  5. Oncology - Wikipedia

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    Follow-up of cancer patients after successful treatment; Palliative care of patients with terminal malignancies; Ethical questions surrounding cancer care; Screening efforts: of populations, or; of the relatives of patients (in types of cancer that are thought to have a hereditary basis, such as breast cancer)

  6. Causes of cancer - Wikipedia

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    Cancer related to one's occupation is believed to represent between 2–20% of all cases. [17] Most cancer deaths caused by occupational risk factors occur in the developed world. [16] Job stress does not appear to be a significant factor at least in lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancers. [18]

  7. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1252 on Friday, November 22 ...

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    Today's Wordle Answer for #1252 on Friday, November 22, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Friday, November 22, 2024, is PEARL. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.

  8. Five freed members of Bali Nine drug gang ‘relieved and happy ...

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    The remaining five Australians from the infamous “Bali Nine” drug gang are “relieved and happy” to be home after Canberra struck a deal with Jakarta to end their two decades of imprisonment.

  9. Tren de Aragua gangbangers tied to wild Colorado apartment ...

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    A pair of Tren de Aragua gangbangers tied to an Aurora, Colorado apartment takeover were arrested in a major NYC drug trafficking bust Wednesday, The Post has learned.