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Author Question: Which of the following is NOT a criteria used to determine the stage and prognosis of cancer? (Read 16 times) |
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.