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Traditionally, the SES had approximately 10% of the entire medical person-power and budget of the AMoH, and was separate from the curative medical care system [ 16 17 ] . The SES was staffed by epidemiologists (physicians), microbiologists, sanitary hygienists, and other health workers (paramedics and physician assistants).
Epigenetic gene silencing of the MGMT confers enhanced sensitivity to alkylating agents in cancer [ 24 25 ] . Lack of methylation, on the other hand, associates with high-risk of death [ 25 26 ] . It has been suggested that the high-levels of MGMT proteins contribute to a drug-resistant phenotype [ 27 ] . More than 90% of newly diagnosed GCTs and 70-80% of patients who present metastatic disease are cured with cisplatin-based chemotherapy [ 28 ] . However, 20-30% of the patients with metastatic disease exhibit resistance to the cisplatin curative regimen leading to high mortality in this group.
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed visceral cancer in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer death in men [ 1 ] . Unfortunately, there are no proven primary prevention strategies for prostate cancer and no curative treatments for distant-stage cancers [ 2 3 ] . Consequently, cancer control efforts have focused on detecting early-stage prostate cancer with screening tests and then aggressively treating the cancer with surgery or radiation.
As many as 30% of patients with breast cancer who have undergone curative surgery and show no evidence of locoregional or distant disease still have recurrent disease over 5-10 years [ 1 2 ] . Some of these treatment failures may be attributed to residual disease in the breast or axillary lymph nodes [ 3 ] . The limitation of routine histopathologic examination of the tumor margins and the dissected lymph node specimen is well known [ 4 ] . Contemporary methods of detection, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy and flow cytometry, all have limited sensitivity and specificity [ 5 6 ] . Micrometastases can be found by immunohistochemistry or polymerase chain reaction in 10-30% of the patients previously deemed free of disease by conventional histological methods [ 7 8 ] . The prognostic importance of micrometastases found with these sensitive methods are now being evaluated [ 9 10 11 ] .
While clearance of the infection is curative, much of the world's population cannot afford the therapy, and further clearance of the infection with antimicrobial therapy is not guaranteed.
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