PERSPECTIVES OF SAN JUAN HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS ON THE DETECTION DEFICIT IN ORAL PREMALIGNANT AND EARLY CANCERS IN PUERTO RICO: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH STUDY

Abstract Background In Puerto Rico, relative to the United States, a disparity exists in detecting oral precancers and early cancers.To identify factors leading to the deficit in early detection, we obtained the perspectives of San Juan healthcare practitioners whose practice could be involved in the detection of such oral lesions.Methods Key infor

The emergence of X4 tropic viral strains throughout the course of HIV infection is associated with poorer prognostic outcomes and faster progressions to AIDS than for patients in whom R5 viral strains predominate.Here we investigate a stochastic model to account for the emergence of X4 virus via mutational intermediates of lower fitness that exhibi

Objectives To develop and validate tests to assess the risk of any cancer for patients referred to the NHS Urgent Suspected Cancer (2-week wait, 2WW) clinical pathways.Setting Primary and secondary care, one participating regional centre.Participants Retrospective analysis of data from 371 799 consecutive 2WW referrals in the Leeds region from 2011

As a result of events experienced by almost the entire world, namely the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic which caused almost all public facilities for sea and air transportation to be closed unilaterally by the local government, one of which is that airlines unilaterally cancel airplane tickets to consumers due to the outbreak of the Cocid-19 pan