Melanoma is a skin cancer whose incidence is increasing steadily.
A telltale sign is a cancer whose incidence rises but whose death rate does not budge.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a deadly cancer, whose incidence is increasing worldwide.
Purpose: Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) is a subtype of lung adenocarcinoma whose incidence is raising.
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents a heterogeneous group mainly consisting of adenocarcinoma, whose incidence is rising.
Despite multimodal approaches to treatment, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a life-threatening condition whose incidence continues to rise.
The secretin story shines a light on the difficulty of developing a drug for autism, an often debilitating condition whose incidence seems to be rising sharply and for which there are no approved drugs.
Researchers say West Nile may be just one example of an infectious disease whose incidence and geographic range have expanded because of human activities affecting the mosquitoes, birds, rodents and other animals that help spread the infection.
"Emerging" refers to newly discovered infectious diseases or old ones that have rebounded, turned up in new places or become drug resistant, and whose incidence has increased in the last two decades or threatens to rise soon.
Those diseases, along with syphilis, whose incidence continues to increase, are "a major threat to gay and bisexual men's health," said Dr. Kevin Fenton, a top official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Breasts develop embarrassingly early or frustratingly late -- except in boys with gynecomastia (a swelling of the mammary glands whose incidence spikes during puberty), who could probably live happily without them altogether.
