Results. For a 72-year old diagnosed with lung cancer in 2000, monthly costs in the first 6 months of care ranged from $2,687 (no active treatment) to $9,360 (chemo-radiotherapy), and varied by stage at diagnosis and histologic type.verage monthly health care costs during the pre-diagnosis and terminal phases. The cost of care in the last month of life for an individual diagnosed at age 72 in 2000 was $14,987 for death from lung cancer and $19,173 for death from cardiac causes (Table 2).
Maple syrup, which comes from the sap of maple trees, is a mixture of water and natural sugars. It's a clear, brown liquid. It's homogeneous, and the sugars cannot be separated by filtration or centrifuge. What type of mixture is it? A. suspension B. colloid C. Solution
No one is really sure just how long people have been practicing the art and science of making this wonderful product from the sap of a tree. However, there are two basic schools of thought about the origin of maple syrup. The first group identifies with Native American legend and lore that maple syrup and maple sugar was being made before recorded history. Native Americans were the first to discover 'sinzibuckwud', the Algonquin (a Native American tribe) word for maple syrup, meaning literally 'drawn from wood'.