Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN Oncology Volume 2013‚ Article ID 470981‚ 8 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/470981 Research Article Assessment of Knowledge of Breast Cancer and Screening Methods among Nurses in University Hospitals in Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia‚ 2011 Semarya Berhe Lemlem‚1 Worknish Sinishaw‚2 Mignote Hailu‚3 Mesfin Abebe‚2 and Alemseged Aregay1 1 Department of Nursing‚ University of Mekele‚ Ethiopia School of Nursing and Midwifery‚ Addis Ababa University‚ Ethiopia 3 Department
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Approach to Cancer care Nursing 410v Grand Canyon University October 5‚ 2011 Staging is the process of finding out how much cancer there is in the body and where it is located. It is how the doctor learns the stage of a person’s cancer. Doctors use this information to plan treatment and to help predict a person’s outlook (prognosis). Cancers with the same stage tend to have similar outlooks and are often treated the same way. The cancer stage is also a way for doctors to describe the extent
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Cancers affecting mankind To date‚ none of the approximately 60 anticancer drugs used in conventional chemotherapy exhibits a selective uptake in tumor tissue and generally only a very small fraction of the administered dose reaches the tumor site. If surgery or radiotherapy is not effective‚ cure rates are in the range of 10% and‚ as a consequence‚ 90 % of chemotherapeutic agents are administered in the palliative setting to stabilize the disease or to improve the quality of life. With such a
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Cancer By: Emily Hamil ----------------------------------- We sat in a cold room‚ not really speaking. It was still rather early in the morning‚ so the sun had not yet enveloped the sky. Dew still littered the slightly open window panes and fog still carpeted the vibrant green grass. My head was bent down slightly‚ and I was fiddling with the end of my warm gray sweatshirt. My feet shifted‚ slightly restless after waiting for numerous hours to hear results. My gaze slid over to my daughter and I
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Nursing 205 VATNP October 30‚ 2013 Abstract The purpose of the Cancer Awareness Teaching Project is for a group of nursing students to go into the community of Buchanan County and teach at least five citizens with audible and visual material with early cancer detection signs and signs and symptoms of cancer. The nursing students in our group began by giving the group a pre-knowledge cancer survey‚ followed by a seminar on early detection. After the seminar the participants were asked to complete
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The Impact of Social Support on Cancer Research has shown that individuals who suffer from cancer fare better if they have a network of social support surrounding them. Social support may manifest itself by allowing cancer patients to personalize with their illness‚ express their emotions and receive supportive interactions. As a result‚ they may develop more effective and active coping skills. Bloom‚ Stewart‚ Johnston‚ Banks‚ and Fobair (2001) conducted a study which assessed the role of support
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of the lung: a) Primary lung tumors: Lung cancers are divided into two categories based on predominant cell type: - Non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC): There are three common types of non small cell lung cancer. These are grouped together because they behave in a similar way and respond to treatment in a different way to small cell lung cancer.(58‚ 59) i) Adenocarcinoma: Now the most frequent primary lung cancer. It is usually the type of lung cancer found in non-smokers‚ and is the most common
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a higher risk on the development of many diseases‚ including several kinds of cancer (3-5). Recent studies have been shown that people with a BMI above 25 kg/m² have an increased incidence of developing endometrial‚ colorectal and postmenopausal breast cancer. In addition‚ people with a BMI above 30 kg/m² has also an increased incidence of developing esophageal‚ thyroid‚ renal‚ gallbladder‚ pancreatic and ovarian cancer as well as multiple myeloma‚ non-Hodgkin
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CANCER RESEARCH PROJECT By Chantal Deller Cancer is a group of diseases that are cell-related. In the event of cancer‚ regular body cells begin changing and growing in improper ways. Regular cells grow‚ divide and eventually die off. Irregular cells (cancerous cells) simply keep growing and divide out of control they don ’t die. Different types of bodily tissues are made up by different types of bodily cells bone cells make up bone tissue‚ for example. Because of this‚ the different types
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Today’s Breast Biopsy is No Longer an Invasive Procedure If an unusual lump is found during a routine breast examination‚ or a suspicious abnormality was detected on a mammogram or MRI‚ your doctor will refer you to a Glendora or Victorville General Surgeon for a breast biopsy. A biopsy is required to determine if the lump or abnormality is benign‚ non-cancerous‚ or malignant‚ cancerous. A biopsy is the only way that a surgeon can collect samples to be analyzed for cancerous cells. There are
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