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Pages 521-526

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From page 521...
... The mechanism of its therapeutic actions is not well understood, but it does appear to block dopamine uptake. It is effective in the treatment of major depression and has some beneficial effects in children and adults with attention deficit disorder.
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From page 522...
... Chemotherapy the treatment of disease by means of chemicals that have a specific toxic effect upon the disease producing microorganisms (antibiotics) or that selectively destroy cancerous tissue (anticancer therapy)
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From page 523...
... Health services research a multidisciplinary field of inquiry, both basic and applied, that examines the use, costs, quality, accessibility, delivery, organization, financing, and outcomes of health care services to increase knowledge and understand the structure, processes, and effects of health services for individuals and populations. Human papillomavirus any of numerous papillomaviruses that cause various human warts (as the common warts of the extremities, planter warts, and genital warts)
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From page 524...
... Its calculation relies on estimates of relative risk, which is the ratio of the cancer incidence rate among those exposed to a risk factor divided by the rate among those not exposed and the proportion of the population exposed to that risk factor. Positive predictive value the probability that an abnormal result correctly indicates cancer.
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From page 525...
... Also called helical computed tomography. Squamous cell carcinoma a malignant growth originating from a squamous cell.
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Key Terms

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  • computed tomography
  • care services
  • factor divided
  • testing methods

  • alternative interventions
  • breast cancer
  • imperfect testing
  • squamous cell
  • health maintenance

  • monetary units
  • erroneously classified
  • investigators identify
  • death rates
  • cancer prevention

  • typically describing
  • clinical course
  • diseased people
  • test result
  • provides care

  • positive predictive
  • microscopic analysis
  • predictive value
  • movement produced
  • selectively destroy

  • licensed health
  • biological trait
  • numerous papillomaviruses
  • body function
  • genital warts


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