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Over the past thousands of years, diabetes has deprived people all over the world of their lives. Until 1922, mankind remained powerless. However, change came, with Frederick Banting (1891-1941), the discoverer of insulin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
April 2023
Department of Family Medicine, L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-094 Torun, Poland.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common malignancy and the second most common cancer-related cause of death worldwide. CRC incidence depends, in part, on the health behaviors that make up an individual's lifestyle. We aimed to assess the influence of health behaviors and quality of life (QoL) among patients with CRC receiving surgical treatment.
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January 2021
Wojciech Zegarski, Professor, Chair of Surgical Oncology, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torué, Oncology Center, Bydgoszcz, Poland, and Department of Surgical Oncology, Oncology Center - Professor Franciszek Lukaszczyk Memorial Hospital, Romanowskiej, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Preparation of patients for colon tumor resection, which involves giving up smoking, reducing alcohol intake, having a proper diet, and increasing physical activity, significantly shortens the hospitalization period. In this study, we aimed at determining the relationship between the fear of cancer progression (FoP) and health behaviors among people with colon cancer. Participants were patients a week before a colon tumor surgery and 6 months after.
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September 2017
The article outlines the achievements of Polish professors who specialized in the treatment of internal diseases. The analysis concerns the scientists who held professorial chairs between 1918 and 1939. The findings were presented in the context of university medical departments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis work constitutes a continued presentation of the history of Polish research in the fauna of the Tatra waters and covers the inter-war period. During the years 1919-1939 these studies were still conducted but on a smaller scale than before the 1st World War. Many publications were based on earlier research done before 1914, which were broader works concerning the territory of the whole country, including also the Tatra waters, such as a monograph on the leeches of Poland by Michał Giedroyć, lacewing insects by Józef Dzięgielewicz, or juxtaposition of Heteroptera (true bugs) of “Galicia” by Adam Krasucki.
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