Guam
"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)
| Descriptor ID |
D006141
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.760.680.435
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Guam" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Aflague TF, Esquivel MK, Hammond K, Delos Reyes B, Kaholokula JK. Traditional and new lifestyle interventions to prevent breast cancer recurrence (TANICA): a qualitative study. Support Care Cancer. 2023 Mar 17; 31(4):218.