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This disease pattern is believed to be the result of genetic heritage and indigenous lifestyle, but, changing living conditions, especially during the second half of the 20th century, have had a substantial effect on the occurrence of cancer in Inuit.
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Standardised incidence ratios of selected cancers in Inuit...
- Psychosocial and Supportive-Care Needs in High-Grade Glioma
The diagnosis and management of high-grade glioma has...
- Is It Time for Surveillance
Small-bowel cancer is part of the tumour spectrum of Lynch...
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Jun 16, 2020 · Despite the popularised idea of “elderly Inuit voluntarily abandoning their lives to the elements so as not to burden their surviving relatives”, the greatest risk of death by suicide occurred in males aged 15–29 years of age [55 p.1].
- Ashley Hayward, Jaime Cidro, Rachel Dutton, Kara Passey
- 2020
TB was one of the most important diseases and causes of death among the Inuit and other indigenous peoples. It reached crisis proportions during the 1940s and 1950s (8). It also triggered off government response to combat the disease, which included X-ray surveys, evacuation to southern sanatoria, trials of preventive therapy with isoniazid and ...
Feb 9, 2019 · Despite global strides made in prevention and treatment, tuberculosis (TB) remains an acute problem for Indigenous people in Canada. TB affects Indigenous communities at significantly higher rates than the general Canadian population, for whom it is a disease of the past.
- Sarah Hick
- 2019
Autopsies near Greenland reveal that, more commonly pneumonia, kidney diseases, trichinosis, malnutrition, and degenerative disorders may have contributed to mass deaths among different Inuit tribes. Inuit believed that the causes of the disease were of a spiritual origin.
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Nov 16, 2016 · Epidemics from Europe that killed thousands of indigenous Canadians in the nineteenth century have left their signatures in the genomes of the people living there today, researchers say.
Nov 15, 2016 · Epidemics from Europe that killed thousands of indigenous Canadians in the nineteenth century have left their signatures in the genomes of the people living there today, researchers say.
