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    Breast and Ovarian Cancer

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    Speech Title: Breast and Ovarian Cancer Purpose Statement: This speech has a primary goal of educating the audience and to give a better understanding of what breast cancer is and how it can be treated with detection by a vast variety of methods. It will also give better understanding that not only women but men also are susceptible to breast cancer. Introduction I. Attention: There are a number of researches done about breast and ovarian cancer. Breast cancer is the second largest cause of

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    Essay On Cervical Cancer

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    Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer Many women do not take breast cancer or cervical cancer serious‚ by getting screened‚ until the disease has begun to develop or has spread. Cervical cancer use to be the main cause of deaths caused by cancer for women‚ but over the past forty or fifty years‚ the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from this disease has decreased significantly‚ leaving another horrible disease in its place. Now breast cancer is the second major cause of

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    Tanning Beds and Cancer

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    According to the Skin Cancer Foundation‚ on an average day‚ nearly thirty million people tan indoors in the United States (“Skin Cancer Facts” 2011). What is even more alarming is‚ “a new study has shown that people who use tanning parlors once a month or more have an increased risk of developing malignant melanoma by 55%. Melanoma is one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer” (“Skin Cancer Facts” 2011). If this statistic does not scare those who use tanning beds‚ it should. Although a nice bronze

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    Childhood Cancer Statistics Each year in the U.S. there are approximately 13‚400 children between the ages of birth and 19 years of age who are diagnosed with cancer. About one in 300 boys and one in 333 girls will develop cancer before their 20th birthday. In 1998‚ about 2500 died of cancer‚ thus making cancer the most common cause of death by disease for children and adolescents in America. Statistics on child and adolescent cancer incidence are collected by the National Cancer Institute’s

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    Introduction to cancer CANCER‚ a 6 letter word that makes our world upside down‚ but do you know‚ what cancer is? Yes‚ it is a rapid cause of the decline of human race‚ but can you discern the mechanics of cancer? Do you know what kind of sickness‚ cancer is? And are you aware of its symptoms? In this report‚ we’ll show you the world that is hidden beneath those white robes of doctors‚ of those cancer patients‚ and of all those cancer patient’s families‚ the world that we only hear of‚ the world

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    types of cancer. It differs from one type to another according to the tissue surrounding it. The meaning of cancer is the growth of different cells and tissues. Cancer cells are found in all living organism which share the same DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) ‚ RNA blueprints and cell physiology but not identical. That’s the reason why it is not easily detected by the immune system of the human body ‚particularly if it is weakened . Therefore all the methods and treatment approaches for cancer are the

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    Dreams “Hold fast to dreams/ For if dreams die /Life is a broken-winged bird/ That cannot fly.” There are many ways to interpret Langston Hughes in this poem‚ but it is clear that he is saying that we‚ as people‚ need dreams to keep on going. Throughout this unit‚ we have seen many different cases in which dreams can come true‚ even if not all of them do. While dreams can seem truly impossible to accomplish‚ they are worth pursuing because it gets through the days of hopelessness‚ there is lot to

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    Essay On Cancer Awareness

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    Cancer Awareness There are a lot of tough diseases in the world but the most common one is cancer. It’s a disease that attacks the body cells dangerously by spreading inside the body destroying the immune system. It’s also known as a malignant tumor that stops the the cell growth and invade the whole body. It’s a serious disease that considered as the main reason of death for humans. However many people had survived it. It can be cured if it was discovered earlier. Lately research has proved that

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    Lom Prostate Cancer

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    Ultimate Medical Academy Laura A Cain BC 1025/ Section 2 When Cancer Hits Home Kimberly Wilson June 22‚ 2013 This subject of prostate cancer hits very close to home. My husband Tom has just finished his treatment for prostate cancer February 15‚ 2013. All of our information about prostate cancer came from the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor Michigan. My husband Tom was diagnosed with prostate cancer in November of 2012. The VA Clinic in Lansing‚ Michigan had been testing Tom’s PSA level

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    Food to Starve Cancer

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    Since we know of its existence the man tried to find a way to attack cancer‚ both in food as with drugs. This video talks called angiogenesis which is the ability of our body to create blood vessels. Blood vessels are all over our body and grow only until early adulthood and indicates some natural phenomenon‚ such as menstruation or for wound healing. But when angiogenesis is altered by some disease the body loses the ability to remove excess or create new vessels when needed. For example‚ some diseases

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