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B A Miller

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Boyer's model of scholarship applied to a career ladder for nontenured nursing faculty.

This article presents a career ladder for the reappointment and promotion of nontenured clinical faculty, based on Boyer's model of the scholarship of teaching, application, discovery, and integration and on his four principles and six standards. Titles, lengths of appointments, criteria, obligations, and professional development are defined for four levels of clinical faculty. Guide questions modeled on Boyer's dimensions of scholarship, principles, and standards that were used to guide the development of the career ladder are included.

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Recent incidence trends for breast cancer in women and the relevance of early detection: an update.

The incidence of breast cancer in women has been rising dramatically in the United States since 1982, based on data collected by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute. An additional three years of incidence and mortality data are included in this update of the earlier analyses; however, the focus of this report remains on examining the steeply increasing incidence trend between 1982 and 1986. Over this period, incidence rates for in situ and localized invasive tumors increased among women age 50 and older, while rates for regional and distant tumors remained stable. The incidence of localized tumors less than 1.0, 1.0 to 1.9, and 2.0 to 2.9 cm in size increased more rapidly than that of tumors 3.0 cm and greater among women over age 50. Survival rates also improved among cases diagnosed over this time period. These descriptive data suggest that early detection may be playing a role in the recent increase in the incidence of breast cancer in women, although other factors cannot be ruled out. Conclusions regarding improved cancer control await confirmation by reduced breast cancer mortality.

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Mortality patterns among professional artists: a preliminary report.

Causes of death among 1598 professional artists were compared with an expected distribution based on the general U.S. population to determine if there were unusual patterns of fatal disease that might be indicative of exposure to hazardous substances in their work environment. Deaths among men and women in the arts were identified from obituaries in Who's Who in American Art published between 1940 and 1969. Among 1253 white male artists, PMRs were significantly elevated for arteriosclerotic heart disease, leukemia and cancers of the bladder, colon, rectum, kidney, and brain. The significant excesses of bladder cancer and leukemia deaths were limited to painters. Proportions of deaths due to colon cancer were significantly elevated among male painters and sculptors. Prostate cancer mortality was slightly higher than expected among painters and significantly elevated among sculptors. Among 345 female artists, painters represented the only specialty category large enough to analyze and excess numbers of deaths due to cancers of the rectum, lung, and breast were noted.

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