The number of female breast cancer survivors is growing because of longer survival as a consequence of advances in treatment and early diagnosis.
As a consequence of advances in technology and health care, it takes significant resources to train nurses to function as experts in their specialty [ 10].
The last 20 years have seen major improvements in survival following colorectal cancer as a consequence of advances in early diagnosis, improved chemotherapy and radiotherapy and advances in surgical technique (Hayne et al, 2001).
As a consequence of advances made in the fields of paediatric cardiac surgery, anaesthesia, and perfusion science, an increasing number of surgical repairs of congenital cardiac abnormalities are being carried out each year.
As a consequence of advances in treatment for breast cancer, survival rates have increased over the last two decades, (as of 2007, 5-year survival rates for curable breast cancer were 89 % [ 28]).
As a consequence of advances in therapy since the mid-90s, several reports have documented a shift in HIV/AIDS health service utilization from inpatient to outpatient care in developed countries since the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) [ 7, 8].
A recent research by Solomon and colleagues showed that individual ratings of QOL are highly variable over time in community-dwelling elderly people with advanced illness (cancer, heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and that declining QOL is not an inevitable consequence of advancing illness [ 42].
This debate takes place in the context of the limited clinical information typically available to the radiologist and such discussions are a consequence of rapidly advancing techniques with attendant lack of knowledge of their implications.
As a consequence of novel advanced material studies, in the last 30 years several typologies of X-ray lenses have been developed.
It was for everyone the natural consequence of advancing technology.
