Type 2 diabetes is a disease where people’s bodies cannot properly use the insulin that is produced in the pancreas. Historically‚ type 2 diabetes was only diagnosed in older adults‚ generally after the age of 45. It was previously believed that diabetes would only affect the older population as the disease was called “Adult Onset Diabetes”. However‚ in the modern world‚ there are a growing number of cases of younger people and children being diagnosed daily. Type 2 diabetes typically goes unnoticed
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PROSTATE cancer (PCa) is one of the biggest threats to men’s health. It tends to develop in men over the age of fifty and is considered as one of the most common cancers among males around the globe. It is estimated that prostate cancer kills one man almost every 19 minutes while a new case is detected every two and a half minutes. According to the Philippine Cancer Society Inc.’s (PCSI) population-based cancer registry‚ 10 men out of 100‚000 will suffer from prostate cancer. In recent years‚ this
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women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. * * Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. * Each year it is estimated that over 220‚000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40‚000 will die. * Although breast cancer in men is rare‚ an estimated 2‚150 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and approximately 410 will die each year. Breast Cancer is a malignant tumor that starts in the
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1. Introduction 22 Diabetes mellitus is the 7th leading cause of death in US. Diabetes is broadly classified into two 23 types: type I and type II. Type I diabetes is a result of insufficient insulin production by pancreas‚ 24 whereas type II diabetes is due to the body’s inability to use the insulin that is produced‚ hence the 25 name insulin resistance is used to refer to type II diabetes. Currently‚ individuals with diabetes are 26 able to monitor their blood glucose levels using a glucometer or
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Skin Cancer Gone are the days when people sent children outside to play to get a little color in their cheeks. They know too much about the dangers of unprotected sun exposure and the threat of skin cancer. Or do they? Despite the fact that 58% of parents remembered hearing about the importance of protecting their children from the sun‚ children are still playing in the sun without sunscreen or protective clothing (3.‚ p 1). Sunburn is the most preventable risk factor of skin cancer. Skin type
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1. Introduction Cancer is one word that no one wants to hear. It can bring a lot of fear and confusion toward many families who have a member death of cancer. Usually‚ it is more happen in adults‚ but that was few cases‚ cancer has also been diagnosed in children too. Cancer is simply a disease of the cells in which bad cells multiply themselves and grow into tumors and even affect all other body organs. There are many types of cancer‚ but cancer is a huge issue everywhere in the world today.
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As of today most adults and the elderly suffer from being diagnosed with a disease known as type-2 diabetes. The most common type of diabetes is type-2 diabetes and about 90-95% of the people with diabetes have type-2 diabetes. Type-2 diabetes is defined as a disorder in your metabolic system and is described as high blood sugar‚ lack of insulin‚ and resistant to insulin. This disease can also be received by it running through the family. Many people do not acknowledge this disease because it is
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The most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes. Millions of American are currently identified with type two diabetes. According to American Diabetes Association (1992-2012)‚ “In type 2 diabetes‚ either the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin . Insulin is necessary for the body to be able to use glucose for energy” (para.2). There are many complications that come with having type 2 diabetes. A person with type 2 diabetes has badly circulating
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and food‚ are needed. Now‚ we have two ways of dealing with this issue. Either we improve the management of our resources‚ so in other words‚ try to work on a worldwide scale in order to have an effect; or we could try slowing down the population growth rate so that we do not run out of resources. We will focus on the second solution‚ and analyze in detail how we could reach this goal. Even thought it seems easy‚ several methods may imply a change of lifestyle or traditions that have an impact on
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Type 2 diabetes. Her A1C is better. I have encouraged her to really try to eat those regular meals‚ monitor her glucose values and we did discuss the possibility of decreasing or stopping the metformin at this time. She does understand that with the prednisone
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