Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells. X-rays‚ gamma rays‚ and charged particles are types of radiation used for cancer treatment. The radiation may be delivered by a machine outside the body called a linear accelerator to focus x-rays directly on the tumor or tumor bed (external-beam radiation therapy)‚ or it may come from radioactive material placed in the body near cancer cells (internal radiation therapy‚ also called brachytherapy). Systemic
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Effect of Cancer Over 7.5 million people die every year from cancer and fewer than 9 million survive every year from it. Compare the two and there’s a big different. Not many people understand the challenges people who are diagnosed with cancer go through every day. Cancers effects are something that cannot be controlled. Emotional and physical changes take place when dealing with cancer it doesn’t just affect the person with it; it also affects the people around that person. Cancer is a sickness
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#:304034 Date: 21/04/2014 Topic: CANCER General Purpose: To inform for audience about cancer Specific Purpose: To provide bad effect to anyone and how to prevent it Central idea: Cancer is a serious disease that may be preventable and curable. INTRODUCTION: I. Attention getter: More than 1/2 million people are expected to die of cancer in a year That ’s more than 1‚500 a day An average of 1/2 of men and 1/3 of women will develop cancer II. Reason to listen: Cancer can affect anyone‚ so from
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Bevis refers to caring as a life force‚ one of life’s essential ingredients and possibly the most essential. She refers to caring as an art that requires theory‚ philosophy‚ and practice. In the article she defines caring as a feeling of dedication to another constructively and positively by increasing intimacy and mutual self-actualization‚ and that the purpose of caring is to facilitate that self-actualization. "Caring helps prevent disease and promote health." Bevis states "It is the rare person
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Health April 14‚ 2013 CVD and Cancer After taking the cancer and CVD risk assessment I learned that aside from working in the sun without protection‚ smoking is my largest risk for cancer or CVD. Aside from these two risk factors I live a fairly healthy life‚ I work harder than most people my age can even fathom from their deep-fryer station at McDonald’s‚ I eat fairly well and I seldom find myself stationary. My top-dog risk factor as determined by the cancer and CVD risk factor assessment
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Utilitarian Theory and Human Rights Utilitarianism can be defined as a moral theory by which the public welfare of a community is dependent on the “sum welfare of individuals‚ which is measured in units of pleasure and/or pain”‚ requiring governments to make decisions based on the “largest sum of pleasure” (Postema‚ 2006). However Bentham argued that "every individual in the country tells for one‚ no individual for more than one"‚ meaning that the weight of an individual’s happiness should always
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A Caring Moment Adalberto Cervantes NUR/403 February 23‚ 2015 Dr. Belen Malayang Introduction The nursing profession continues a model a caring tradition since its earlier existence‚ while constantly improving to achieve client’s care. In several of her distinguished works‚ the scholar Dr. Jean Watson focuses upon redefining the role of the nursing practice and profession to embody curative factors as well as carative factors; reimagining the nurse as both noun and verb as being caring
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In Twain’s portrayal of Widow Douglas and Miss Watson though both are described with satire‚ Miss Watson is more so through his usage of sardonic voice. In his description of the Widow Douglas it was a more orderly alinge of how things went while he was with her‚ a cut and dry example of how supper went as well as the clothing he was forced to wear. Minus minor insults to her feelings on smoking while she ‘took snuff’‚ the satire was played out more subtly compared to Miss Watson. When describing
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The Human Life Span and Human Development Theories John A. Pustinger University of Phoenix The Human Life Span and Human Development Theories Freud ’s psychosexual theory and Erickson ’s psychosocial theory both provide profound insight to human development. Through a comparison and contrasting framework‚ an analysis of these theories determines how they may apply to a second-grade student in a public school‚ a 31-year-old adult learner completing a master’s degree at a university‚ and a 68-year-old
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Breast Implants in Teenagers The trend for a number of young girls is to get breast augmentation. They think that by changing their bodies‚ they’re going to change their lives. They think they will be happy‚ and they will be completely satisfied with their implants. Their expectation is that their self-confidence will skyrocket‚ and they will be attractive girls. Many young girls get implants to make themselves stand out more and to have a great appearance‚ but there are many reasons that they
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