Should the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes be legalized? Wouldn’t it be simple to provide a simple black or white answer to this question? Across the nation there is much debate on this very topic‚ one that I don’t believe can be solved so easily with a yes or no. There are so many activists that have strong opinions on this subject and go to the fullest extent to ensure they are heard. As simple straight forward as this question is it was hard for me to determine which side of the
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Adjustment of Young Women Survived Breast Cancer Literature Review The Target Group To define the target group appropriately is essential to include all the candidates of the group and to identify the unique attributes of this group. In this paper‚ as in many other researches in this field‚ the target group is defined as women who are under age 50 at diagnosis of breast cancer and survived without recurrence or the development of other forms of cancer (Bloom et al.‚ 2004). This definition has
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Against effect of melatonin and its combination with therapeutic exercise on Doxorubicin induced Cardiotoxicity Tserentogtokh Lkhagvasuren1‚ Seunghoon Lee2‚ Jeong-Hwa Hong1‚ and Yonggeun Hong2‚3. 1Department of Smart Foods & Drugs‚ Inje University‚ 2Department of Rehabilitation Science‚ Inje University‚ 3Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease Center‚ Inje University‚ Gimhae‚ Gyeongnam 621-749‚ Korea Abstract Doxorubicin (DOX) has been known as strong therapeutic effective in cancers. DOX
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Taxol is an anticancer drug produced by extraction from the bark of the pacific yew tree called Taxus brevifolia‚ which was discovered by Harvard trained botanist called Arthur Barclay in 1962 (wall and wani‚ 1995). It was renamed to paclitaxel when it was commercially developed. It is in a form of whitish crystalline powder with a melting point of 216 ºC‚ very insoluble in water‚ highly lipophilic‚ higher protein binding rate and disturbs the structure of the inner part of the cell membrane (Goldspiel
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1 ONCOLOGY INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 1.1 Key trends and characteristics of Cytostatic industry • high growth rate – higher propotion of the global pharma market in the years to come • one of the fastest growing and most profitable therapeutic areas of the next few decades • shift from accute cancer treatment to chronic disease management and prevention • more and more biotech companies enter the market – connections with pharma to help through the maze of regulatory processes and clinical development
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis On 11/16/12 one of my best friends passed away from a very rare disease known as Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis‚ or HLH. The exact cause of HLH is unknown. It is a disorder of the immune system‚ it leads to the activation of infection fighting cells called histiocytes and lymphocytes. Normally they are supposed to travel throughout the body and destroy foreign material and fight infections. Patients with this disease have too many of these activated histiocytes
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Advances in the knowledge of molecular biology of cancer and pathways involved in malignant transformation of cells are revolutionizing the approach to cancer treatment with a focus on targeted cancer therapy. Targeted cancer therapies are drugs or other substances that block the growth and spread of cancer by interfering with specific molecules involved in cancer growth and progression. Because scientists often call these molecules “molecular targets‚” targeted cancer therapies are sometimes called
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IMRT and VMAT have many dosimetric and clinical benefits when compared to 3DCRT. IMRT and VMAT are techniques where the radiation dose can be delivered more precisely to the tumour. In comparison to 3DCRT‚ the dose can be escalated so that the tumour will receive a higher dose and normal tissues will receive a lower dose. Because 3DCRT does not modulate as precisely to the tumour‚ the patient can be at risk of a large amount of normal tissue receiving a higher dose of radiation. This will result
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INTRODUCTION Both scarring and nonscarring alopecias have been described with long-term use of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors. Current treatments revolve around anti-inflammatory agents such as topical corticosteroid ointments‚ creams‚ and intralesional injections to reduce follicular inflammation. Unfortunately‚ none of these therapies are universally effective. Here‚ we describe a case of erlotinib-induced alopecia refractory to intralesional and topical corticosteroids that
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safe and effective at treating peripheral neuropathy‚ which causes great suffering to HIV/AIDS patients. Cannabis is also very effective in alleviating the pain and nausea caused from many other medical conditions and/or the treatments‚ such as chemotherapy‚ which is used to treat many forms of cancer.
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