the cancer century. This is because more than a hundred types of cancer have been discovered in this century‚ and secondly‚ because enormous medical efforts were made to fight all kinds of cancers all over the world. In the early decades of the century‚ cancer was considered to be a fatal disease‚ and although many cancers remain fatal‚ medical therapy has developed significantly over the years such that most cancers can be treated and cured. After decades of struggling with various cancers‚ doctors
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Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells. X-rays‚ gamma rays‚ and charged particles are types of radiation used for cancer treatment. The radiation may be delivered by a machine outside the body called a linear accelerator to focus x-rays directly on the tumor or tumor bed (external-beam radiation therapy)‚ or it may come from radioactive material placed in the body near cancer cells (internal radiation therapy‚ also called brachytherapy). Systemic
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Prostate Cancer is the second most common cancer among men‚ after skin cancer‚ and is the leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States. Prostate cancer is caused by changes in the DNA of a prostate cell that turns off tumor suppressor genes and activate oncogenes. Essentially‚ cancer is an epigenetic programming problem. Epigenetics is the study of trait variations that are caused by factors that turn genes on and off and change how cells read genes. Immune evasion is when alterations
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------------------------------------------------- Colorectal cancer From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Colorectal cancer | Classification and external resources | Diagram of the lower gastrointestinal tract | ICD-10 | C18-C20/C21 | ICD-9 | 153.0-154.1 | ICD-O: | M8140/3 (95% of cases) | OMIM | 114500 | DiseasesDB | 2975 | MedlinePlus | 000262 | eMedicine | med/413 med/1994ped/3037 | Colorectal cancer‚ commonly known as bowel cancer‚ is a cancer from uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts
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Screening Cervical cytological screening is accomplished by the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening test. Since this test was introduced in the 1970s‚ deaths resulting from cervical cancer have decreased by 71%.12 With this test‚ the patient is placed in the lithotomy position‚ and the provider inserts a speculum into the vaginal opening until the cervix and cervical os are visible. Then‚ the provider takes a cytological sample from the transformation zone of the cervix using a collection brush and
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Time is Platinum. "Late comers will be left behind." August 23‚ 2006 Last August 23‚ 4:30 PM at IIT guardhouse time‚ we departed from MSU-IIT campus to start our most awaited trip to Cebu City via a Rural Transit bus that transported us to the pier in Cagayan de Oro‚ where we aboard Trans Asia 1. Dinner was served before departure and at exactly 8:30 PM‚ the ship left the port. We’re together with the BS Economics and BS Physics students in the Economy A section of the ship (third floor) while
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Thomas Edison State College Sociology Reaction Report When choosing a partner we are putting ourselves on what would be called a marketplace for relationships. People usually will marry within there ethnic group‚ nationality or social group. This is Endogamy also called in-marriage‚ custom enjoining one to marry within one’s own group. The penalties for transgressing endogamous restrictions have varied greatly among cultures and have ranged
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The Abyss Like a fish out of water by Jody Lyle from Jump Cut‚ no. 38‚ June 1993‚ pp. 9-13 copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media‚ 1993‚ 2006 Everywhere water. Peaceful water. Then suddenly‚ out of the limitless blue‚ comes a long‚ gray U.S. submarine. Quick cut to inside the vessel to find an exclusively male group of seamen trying to identify an object approaching at an unheard of speed. "I’ll tell you what it’s not‚ it’s not one of ours‚" an officer shouts‚ doing his best to identify
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temp abundant cervical mucus‚ watery‚ clear and alkaline‚ stretchy egg white consistency ferrying of mucus seen under microscope where does fertilization take place? outer (third) ampulla of the fallopian tubes how long does it take the zygote to get from the fallopian tubes to the uterus? about 3-4 days it takes 7-10 days to complete the process of implantation (nidation) how long do eggs and sperm live? eggs live about 24 hours sperm
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Reaction about Rizal the movie: First of all‚ I want to criticize the whole movie first‚ the movie was great so is the stars who acted upon the characters who was born on late 1800’s when Dr. Jose Rizal lived as a hero‚ a champion to all Filipino from the Spanish tyranny. This movie really portrays the all the different kinds of emotion exerted by all filipinoes in the hands of the Spanish government. In terms of Rizal’s life‚ although they didn’t exactly tell all of his exploits‚ we can see through
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