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  2. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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    The most common cancer among women in the United States is breast cancer (123.7 per 100,000), followed by lung cancer (51.5 per 100,000) and colorectal cancer (33.6 per 100,000), but lung cancer surpasses breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death among women. [13]

  3. Primary myelofibrosis - Wikipedia

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    Diagnosis is made on the basis of bone marrow biopsy. Fibrosis grade 2 or 3 defines overt PMF whereas grade 0 or 1 defines prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis. [citation needed] A physical exam of the abdomen may reveal enlargement of the spleen, the liver, or both. [3] Bone marrow biopsy shows fibrosis of the bone marrow.

  4. Fibrosis - Wikipedia

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    Fibrosis can occur in many tissues within the body, typically as a result of inflammation or damage. Common sites of fibrosis include the lungs, liver, kidneys, brain, and heart: Micrograph showing cirrhosis of the liver. The tissue in this example is stained with a trichrome stain, in which fibrosis is colored blue.

  5. Bone metastasis - Wikipedia

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    Bone is the third most common location for metastasis, after the lung and liver. [13] While any type of cancer is capable of forming metastatic tumors within bone, the microenvironment of the marrow tends to favor particular types of cancer, including prostate, breast, and lung cancers. [4]

  6. Prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis - Wikipedia

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    Prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis (Pre-PMF) is a rare blood cancer, classified by the World Health Organization as a distinct type of myeloproliferative neoplasm in 2016. [1] The disease is progressive to overt primary myelofibrosis , though the rate of progression is variable and not all patients progress.

  7. Myelodysplastic syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The best prognosis is seen with RA and RARS, where some nontransplant patients live more than a decade (typical is on the order of three to five years, although long-term remission is possible if a bone-marrow transplant is successful). The worst outlook is with RAEB-T, where the mean life expectancy is less than one year.

  8. List of cancer mortality rates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Liver cancer and bile duct cancer: 6.6 Gallbladder cancer: 0.6 Pancreatic cancer: 11.0 Laryngeal cancer: 1.0 Lung cancer: 40.2 Tracheal cancer (including other respiratory organs) 0.1 Bone cancer (including joint cancer) 0.5 Skin cancer (excluding basal and squamous) 3.4 Breast cancer (non-in situ) 11.3 Uterine cancer (cervix uteri) 1.2 Uterine ...

  9. Fibrous dysplasia of bone - Wikipedia

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    Fibrous dysplasia of the right zygomatic bone (left). Corresponding T2-weighted MRI (left) and CT (right) of the same patient. Corresponding T2-weighted MRI (left) and CT (right) of the same patient. Fibrous dysplasia is a mosaic disease that can involve any part or combination of the craniofacial, axillary, and/or appendicular skeleton . [ 7 ]