ANALYSIS
Cancer control in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century
Luiz Antonio Teixeira
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Migrating techniques, multiplying diagnoses: the contribution of Argentina and Brazil to early ‘detection policy’ in cervical cancer
Yolanda Eraso
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Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
Ilana Löwy
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Care practice in oncology: the physical therapy experience with breast cancer patients
Lina Faria
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Between healthy fear and unreasonable fear: Mexico’s National Campaign against Cancer
Ana María Carrillo
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Physicians, travels, and scientific exchange during the institutionalization of the fight against cancer in Brazil (1941-1945)
Rômulo de Paula Andrade, Vanessa Lana
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Ties of sociability, philanthropy, and the Cancer Hospital in Rio de Janeiro (1922-1936)
Gisele Sanglard
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Never on Sundays: a study of the topic of cancer on Brazilian television stations
Claudia Jurberg, Marina Verjovsky
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Homes for the dying: the history of the development of modern hospices
Ciro Augusto Floriani, Fermin Roland Schramm
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INTERVIEWS
Changes in the surgical treatment of cancers: from the large incisions of the 1970s 181 to today’s nearly invisible cuts
Interview with João Bosco Botelho
Interview given to Jaime L. Benchimol and Ruth B. Martins
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Hospices and volunteer cancer programs
Interview with Marcos Moraes
Interview given to Claudia Jurberg, Jaime L. Benchimol, Luiz Antonio Teixeira and Ruth B. Martins
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IMAGES
Cancer education campaigns
Manuela Castilho Coimbra Costa, Luiz Antonio Teixeira
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Neurosciences, graphic arts, and public health: new health warnings on cigarette packaging
Billy E.M. Nascimento, Nilton Gamba Jr., Leticia de Oliveira, Mirtes G. Pereira, Rejane Spitz, Sonia Gleiser, Cristina Perez, Cristiane Vianna, Tania Cavalcante and Eliane Volchan
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RESEARCH NOTES
From red crab to pink Christ statue: cancer prevention education campaigns in Brazil
Vânia Rocha
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
The fight against cancer in Bahia: from an invisible disease to a social issue
• review by Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza on 70 Anos de lutas e conquistas: Liga Bahiana Contra o Câncer, by Consuelo Novais Sampaio
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