Radiation Therapy What is radiation therapy? According to wikipedia Radiation therapy discovered in 1889 also known as radiotherapy‚ radiation oncology‚ or XRT‚ is the medical use of ionizing radiation as a part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells. Radiotherapy may be used for curative or adjuvant cancer treatment‚ with curative being the cure and adjuvant being additional treatment. Radiation therapy can also be used as palliative treatment‚ which is where a cure is not possible and
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How the technology affects the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer? Abstract As the technology world grieves figuring visionary and Apple‚ Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs‚ it ’s worth taking a closer look at the disease he publicly battled. This paper will discuss the detailed and information about pancreatic cancer and how the technology helps to detect‚ prevent and cure the disease. This paper will show different statistics of pancreatic cancer at different stages of the cancer. American Cancer Society
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A Case-Control Study of Diet and the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Sai Yi Pan‚ Anne-Marie Ugnat‚ Yang Mao‚ et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2004;13:1521-1527. Published online September 1‚ 2004. Updated Version Cited Articles Citing Articles E-mail alerts Reprints and Subscriptions Permissions Access the most recent version of this article at: http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/13/9/1521 This article cites 55 articles‚ 25 of which you can access for free at: http://cebp.aacrjournals
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Signaling: Methods and Protocols‚ Humana Press‚ 2003 http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/colon/Patient/page1 http://drbenkim.com/articles-prevent-cancer.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/cancer-oncology/ http://www.webmd.com/cancer/default.htm http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorectal_cancer
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Exam 4 Select the accurate statement regarding the difference between the effects of vincristine (Oncovin®) and vinblastine (Velban®). Vinblastine produces bone marrow suppression. After receiving a first-time dose of the inactivate flu vaccine‚ an adult pt telephones the nurse & complains of lethargy & a fever of 101 that has lasted for 6 hrs. Selects the nurse’s best action. Advise the pt to take acetaminophen and rest. A pt is receiving IV vancomycin (Vancocin). A unique complication of rapid
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Question1. In approximately 500 words‚ describe the routhes and mechanisms of the spread of lung cancer. Metastasis is a term referring to the process by which cancer cells spread from the primary site to a distant site characterised by increased proliferation and invasiveness of the tumour cells (Engelking & cady‚2008). It occurs in the final stage of cancer development and is least responsive to cancer treatment‚ contributing to the most common cause of death in cancer patients (Stafford
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Running head: Nanomedicine Nanomedicine Author’s Name Author’s Institutional Affiliation Abstract Nanotechnology is working on matter at nanolevel (one millionth of a millimeter) and nanomedicine is the use of this technology in medicine for diagnosis and treatment. Although research results are far from application on humans; yet‚ research body is growing fast and collaboration between specialties is creating some great laboratory advances. The aim of this thesis is to review‚ in
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nursing practice covers all age groups and nursing specialties and is carried out in a variety of heath care settings‚ including the home‚ community‚ acute care institutions‚ outpatient centers‚ rehabilitation and goals of cancer nursing‚ also called oncology nursing‚ are diverse and complex as those of any nursing specialty. Because many people associate cancer with pain and death‚ nurses need to identify their own reactions to cancer and set realistic goals to meet the challenges inherent in caring
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Breast Cancer Is Most Aggressive in African American Women Breast cancer is the second leading cause of deaths in American women‚ with lung cancer being the first. It is the most common cancer in women not including non-melanoma skin cancers. Breast cancer is a group of related diseases in which cells in the breast‚ most commonly in the lining of the milk ducts or milk producing glands become abnormal and divide without control or order as a normal cell would. When cancer cells break away from the
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2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking‚ Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013) Clinical-based Prediction of Side Effects in Colon Cancer Chemotherapy Mouna Kacimi Ognjen Savkovi´c Manfred Mitterer Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano‚ Italy Mouna.Kacimi@unibz.it Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano‚ Italy Ognjen.Savkovic@unibz.it Hospital Franz Tappeiner I-39012‚ Meran-Merano
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