NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms

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Illness that affects the heart and blood vessels. Smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, obesity, etc. may increase the risk of certain cardiovascular diseases. The most common cardiovascular disease is coronary artery disease (coronary artery stenosis or obstruction), which can cause chest pain, heart attack or stroke. Other cardiovascular diseases include congestive heart failure, cardiac rhythm disorder, congenital heart disease (birth heart disease), and endocarditis (inflammation of the inner layer). It is also known as heart disease

Last week, the National Institutes of Health (NCI) of the National Institute of Health (NIH) published an annual report on cancer status in 2018. At the opening meeting on 2nd June, NCI Director Norman E. Sharpless, MD highlighted the best news reported to the participants of the annual meeting. Nationality However, Dr. Sharpless also brought other good news: "We received strong and bipartisan support from the Congress on cancer research," the budget of NCI and NIH increased for 4 consecutive years Did. He said that the comprehensive budget passed by Congress provided growth of $ 275 million for the NCI budget this year and total funds for cancer Moonshot.

"Cancer of war" is also bad as well. John Bailar III should know about cancer. He works at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a statistical consultant at NCI Jorunal, the New England Medical Journal, and a lecturer at Harvard Public Health Graduate School. He began to doubt the effectiveness of the entire cancer research program in the 1970's and left NCI in 1980. At the New England Journal of Medicine in 1986, he wrote an article titled "Cancer Progress". From 1950 to 1982, there was no evidence that medical advances delayed cancer and cancer mortality. If anything, the situation is getting worse than before.