Breast Cancer in Women As most of us look ahead into what we expect for our future‚ we will envision a life of good health‚ success and family. What if the health factor was not good? What if the woman in the family became ill with one of the most uprising and terminal illnesses. Breast cancer is a type of cancer which develops from a mutated gene. "One in 10 American women who live to be 70 develop breast cancer‚ with more than 180‚000new cases diagnosed each year." (Predicting breast-cancer
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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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Colon cancer symptoms: The cancer of colon and rectum can cause many different symptoms. You may be completely asymptomatic also. It is important to seek medical help if you develop the following symptoms‚ Rectal bleeding: You may notice large amount of bleeding in the rectum or blood mixed with the stools. Many a times‚ people mistake it for “haemorrhoids” thus averting early diagnosis. This rectal bleeding may be hidden and chronic showing up as “iron deficiency anaemia” which in turn causes pale
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Palliative treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer is important. Patients should be monitored closely for depression and treated when it arises. Other complications that require palliative intervention include pain; gastric outlet or duodenal obstruction; and bile duct obstruction and subsequent jaundice‚ cachexia‚ hypercoagulability and malabsorption caused by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (Yim et al; 2001). Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and subsequent malabsorption should be
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ANCIENT WISDOM IS RAY OF NEW HOPE FOR CANCER MANAGEMENT- HERBO-METALO; HERBO-MINERALO THERAPEUTICS Dhruve K. D.*‚ Modha J. K.**‚ Prajapati P. K. *** Department of Rasa shastra & Bhaishjya Kalplana including Drug Research‚ Institute for Post Graduate Teaching and Research in Ayurveda‚ Gujarat Ayurved University‚ Jamnagar 361008. *Ph.D. Scholar‚ Department of Rasa Shastra & Bhaishjya Kalplana including Drug Research‚ **Lecturer‚ Dept. of Rasa shashtra
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involves ABO blood groups and prognosis of breast cancer. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the coloration between ABO blood groups and the prognosis of breast cancer and the subjects for this controlled study was in Arak city‚ Arak‚ Iran. One hundred and thirty four patients with breast cancer were included in the study and their blood types were taken from their medical record. Analysis show that tumors come in different sizes. Breast cancer is defined as the most frequent malignant tumor
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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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Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in women‚ and over the last decade‚ treatments toward a cure have achieved remarkable results. One of the best non –medical treatments is the support group for cancer survivors. I feel that groups like the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition provide a critical service to women undergoing the challenges of fighting cancer because they help support their emotional needs‚ which sometimes get overlooked during medical procedures. The Delaware
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Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC or Lynch Syndrome) is an inherited predisposition to colorectal cancer and other cancers. The “non-polyposis” stems from the knowledge that this form of bowel cancer can occur with formation of few or no polyps. First named over 100 years ago‚ it is the most common form of familial colorectal cancer‚ however only accounts for around 5% of all bowel cancer cases. Other cancers that HNCPP increases the risk of includes: endometrial cancer‚ duodenal cancer‚ cancer of the ureter
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Discuss the common cancers of the reproductive system A seminar presented in partial fulfillment of the course natural science (gs 105) By Ndu gabriella okesinachi 2008/160482 Lecturer.dr v.a ezeokoye OUTLINE 1. Introduction 2. Cervical cancer. -Epidemiology -Risk Factors -Signs and Symptoms -Investigation -Treatment and Management. 3. Prostate Cancer -Epidemiology -Risk Factors -Signs and symptoms -Investigations -Treatment and Management COMMON CANCERS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE
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