Interventions that are dependent on predicting spatial clusters (such as reactive case detection) would only have detected a small proportion of cases unless the entire village was screened within a limited time frame and with a highly sensitive diagnostic test.
The FSA reckons that, while a smaller proportion of cases may be referred to the RDC, those that are will be slower and costlier.
One drug, minoxidil, when applied to thinning areas of the scalp on a daily basis, is thought to be effective in preventing further hair loss in many cases and in growing new hair in a much smaller proportion of cases.
The report leads to the conclusion that this malnutrition is too widely diffused to be attributable to poverty in more than a small proportion of cases, and the more probable explanation seems to be afforded by the extraordinary ignorance of English women of the industrial classes concerning food values, cookery, and the general economy of dietetics.
Assuming that, like in mammography,62 also here overdiagnosis can explain only a small proportion of cases, the additional detection by supplementary ultrasound (estimated above at 19 or 8 per 10,000), could prove to be clinically meaningful in decreasing the overall interval cancer rate.
BACKGROUND: Heritable mutations of the breast cancer gene BRCA1 are rare, occurring in fewer than 1% of women in the general population, and therefore account for a small proportion of cases of breast and ovarian cancers.
However, a small proportion of cases can be attributed to known genetic factors.
The committee found there were four main reasons why women sought abortions: "economic and domestic hardship"; "changes in social and moral outlook"; "pregnancy amongst the unmarried"; and, in a small proportion of cases, "fears of childbirth".
In a small proportion of cases, the encephalopathy is caused directly by liver failure; this is more likely in acute liver failure.
