"Guam" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An island in Micronesia, east of the Philippines, the largest and southernmost of the Marianas. Its capital is Agana. It was discovered by Magellan in 1521 and occupied by Spain in 1565. They ceded it to the United States in 1898. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Department of the Interior since 1950. The derivation of the name Guam is in dispute. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p471)
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D006141
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.760.680.435
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Guam" by people in Profiles.
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Gopalani SV, Soman A, Shapiro JA, Miller JW, Ortiz-Ortiz KJ, Casta?eda-Avila MA, Buenconsejo-Lum LE, Fredericks LE, Tortolero-Luna G, Saraiya M. Breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening test use in the US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Cancer Epidemiol. 2023 06; 84:102371.
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Schupp PJ, Kohlert-Schupp C, Whitefield S, Engemann A, Rohde S, Hemscheidt T, Pezzuto JM, Kondratyuk TP, Park EJ, Marler L, Rostama B, Wright AD. Cancer chemopreventive and anticancer evaluation of extracts and fractions from marine macro- and microorganisms collected from Twilight Zone waters around Guam. Nat Prod Commun. 2009 Dec; 4(12):1717-28.
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Williams PG, Asolkar RN, Kondratyuk T, Pezzuto JM, Jensen PR, Fenical W. Saliniketals A and B, bicyclic polyketides from the marine actinomycete Salinispora arenicola. J Nat Prod. 2007 Jan; 70(1):83-8.