responsible for the racing of the heart‚ known as palpations‚ sweating‚ the shakiness of the hands‚ and the widening of the eyes when a stressful situation occurs or when faced with sudden fear. When these glands begin to grow tumors called Pheochromocytoma. Phechromocytoma is a rare tumor that is found on the adrenal glands that causes hyper secretion of hormones that control the heart rate‚ blood pressure‚ and metabolism called epinephrine and norepinephrine that results in intermittent or sustained hypertension
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website n.d. “defined Cancer as not just one disease but many diseases in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and form tumors”. These tumors can either be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Crosta‚ P. (2006r‚ October 4) explains that once this happens the tumors have the ability to invade other issues and organs. When the abnormal cells form tumors and start traveling from one part of the body to another‚ it is referred to as metastasis. Additional symptoms may appear and will
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Skin cancer‚ cancer that forms in the skin. There are three types of skin cancer; melanoma‚ squamous cell‚ and basal cell carcinoma. Out of the three skin cancers basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is by far the most common. BCC accounts for 90% of all skin cancers. Basal cell carcinoma is also the easiest to treat for the simple fact it rarely metastasize. Bcc tend to stay in the same general area and cause damage to tissues by growing and invading surrounding tissue. Some people are more susceptible
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The Breast 20 (2011) S75eS80 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect The Breast journal homepage: www . elsevier . com/brst Breast cancer in a multi-ethnic Asian setting: Results from the SingaporeeMalaysia hospital-based breast cancer registry Nirmala Bhoo Pathy a‚ b‚ c‚ d‚ *‚ Cheng Har Yip d‚ e‚ Nur Aishah Taib d‚ e‚ Mikael Hartman f‚ g‚ h‚ Nakul Saxena f‚ Philip Iau g‚ Awang M. Bulgiba a‚ Soo Chin Lee i‚ Siew Eng Lim i‚ John E.L. Wong j‚ Helena M. Verkooijen f‚ k for SingaporeeMalaysia
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SIGNIFICANCE Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-death in the world. In 2012‚ 782‚000 people were diagnosed and 95% mortality rate makes it the sixth most common cancer [1]. HCC in early stages is usually asymptomatic. When symptoms do occur they are usually mistaken for other liver diseases. Therefore‚ early diagnosis of HCC is extremely challenging. Surgical resection and liver transplant are the best treatment options for early stage HCC (BCLC stage 0 or A [2])
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Answer 1. Paper reported that Olfm4 deletion induces colon adenocarcinoma in APCmin mice‚ so why after miR-34 deletion‚ olfm4 positive stem cell number was increased and tumor incidence was also increased? Their research was working on the colon tumorigenesis‚ but we are working on the small intestine. Also in our model‚ colon tumor is very rare‚ could because of different genetic background. The function of Olfm4 may be also tissue specific. 2. Do these changes caused by the genetic modification‚
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Ovarian Cancer Monica Zillinger Abstract Ovarian cancer is one of the leading reproductive cancers in the United States. Cancer is the formation of cells‚ or tumors‚ in the ovaries that negatively affect surrounding tissue and do harm to the rest of the body. Ovarian cancer is cancer of the ovaries‚ the female reproductive organ. Ovarian cancer only affects women. Ovarian cancer can affect any woman that ovulates‚ or releases eggs through the ovary tract. There are methods
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Osteosarcoma I. General Characteristics A cancerous (malignant) bone tumor Usually develops in teenagers (occurs when a teen is growing rapidly) Most common bone cancer in children There are about 800 new cases of osteosarcoma in the US each year Tends to appear in the upper arm‚ thigh‚ and shin though it can appear in any bone Can be fatal If tumor has not spread to the lungs long-term survival rates are better 60% to 80% localized 5-year survival rate At least 23 types of osteosarcoma
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cancers are either ovarian epithelial carcinomas (cancer that begins in the cells on the surface of the ovary) or malignant germ cell tumors (cancer that begins in egg cells). The estimated of case and deaths to ovarian cancer in the U.S. in 2010 are 21‚880 for new cases and 13‚850 death have been reported. Ovarian cancer represents a group of different tumors that arise from diverse types of tissue contained only within the ovary. The most common type of ovarian cancer arises from the epithelial
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poorly differentiated‚ on the chart‚ means that the cells in the tumor have gone through so many mutations that they no longer look like or function like the original tissue‚ example: uterine carcinoma‚ they don’t look or function like the original cells of the uterus more importantly it means they do not respond to treatment well‚ resistant to treatment so poorly differentiated is a bad thing malignancy and benign both are tumors‚ or excessive cell growth benine: hasn’t spread or encroached
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