For example, when environment is broadly defined to include occupational exposures, environmental pollution, and ionizing and ultraviolet radiation, 9% of cancer deaths have been attributed to known environmental causes (Harvard Report on Cancer Prevention 1996).
In this review we present data from arthropods that broadly suggest viruses do indeed drive invertebrate evolution — selective sweeps, resistance polymorphisms, and elevated rates of protein evolution have all been attributed to virus-mediated selection.
The broadly defined "white syndromes" in Indo-Pacific regions, characterized in the field by tissue loss resulting in exposure of the coral skeleton, have been attributed to Vibrio spp. [ 3], a genus of bacteria involved in several coral diseases [ 4- 8].
According to Haq et al. (1987), relative fall in the global sea level has been reported during the Early Miocene which can broadly be attributed to the sediment progradation seen in U3b.
The lowest injury deaths were attributed to suicide 4 (2%) or broadly referred here as intentional injuries.
The low case detection rate could be attributed to many factors which could be broadly categorized as patient related delay of health care seeking or failure of the health care system to diagnose patients.
The benefits of mildly hypotensive resuscitation can be attributed to alleviated oxidative stress injury or, broadly speaking, resuscitation injury [ 38].
Chemoresistance is attributed to numerous mechanisms, which can be broadly divided into decreased DNA damage response via p53 and increased cell survival, mainly through defects in apoptosis (Wernyj and Morin, 2004).
These factors might be attributed to the patient, the doctor or both and are broadly known for many other tumour types [ 17- 20].
Diarrheal diseases can be attributed to contaminated drinking water, poor sanitation and hygiene, and more broadly to poverty [ 2, 3].
