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Objective: An increasing number of people resumes life after cancer treatment. Although the (long-term) side-effects of cancer and its treatment can be significant, less is known about the impact on cancer survivors' participation in daily life. The aim of this study was to explore the common experiences of cancer survivors in resuming life after treatment.
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- The study investigates uranium (U/U) ratios in environmental samples from the Pamir region to evaluate the influence of human nuclear activity on this remote area.
- The U/U ratios found (ranging from 0.007256 to 0.007263) suggest a slight enrichment of uranium, indicating the presence of anthropogenic materials, particularly in cryoconite compared to soil and water.
- The findings also suggest that while the area shows subtle enrichment of uranium, it remains relatively clean from local contamination, with environmental uranium largely resulting from historical global nuclear fallout rather than local sources.
Variability of fallout radionuclide accumulation and possible contamination sources of a peripheral glacier in southeast Greenland.
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Department of Mass Spectrometry, Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland.
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School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom.
Cryoconite has been demonstrated to be an efficient accumulator of some classes of contaminants on glaciers in both mountain and polar environments, however the accumulation of contaminants in cryoconite in Iceland has received very little attention to date. To understand the spatial variability of natural and anthropogenic fallout radionuclides and metals on glaciers in Iceland, we present the first study of this region including both cryoconite from three glaciers: Virkisjökull; Skaftafellsjökull; and Falljökull, together with moss balls ('glacier mice') from Falljökull. The cryoconite samples and glacier mice were analysed using XRF spectrometry to assess their elemental composition and gamma spectrometry to identify, and quantify, fallout radionuclides, primarily Be, Cs, Am, excess Pb, and K.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence, practice, determinants and adverse effects of self-medication among young people living in a suburban community of Ekiti, Nigeria: A community-based cross-sectional study.
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Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti, Nigeria.
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