Bone Cancer Bone cancer is a disease that occurs on or inside a bone. Usually‚ bone cancer involves a tumor filled with abnormal cells that will occasionally appear on the exterior of the bone. Similar to other types of cancer‚ bone cancer can be life threatening. Doctors are not completely sure what causes cancer‚ but they continue the search to find an answer. There are five different types of bone cancer that can affect people from ages 10-60 years old. Bone cancer can occur in any bone in the
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Attention Getter: Women survive breast cancer everyday through early detection and treatment‚ but have you ever place yourself in the shoes of someone diagnose with breast cancer? Specific Purpose: To inform the audience on the Symptoms/ Risk‚ Treatment‚ and how a person can possibly lower the risk of breast cancer. Credibility: Thesis Statement: With breast cancer being one of the most common and leading cancers of death many women survive breast cancer everyday through early detection
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7/28/2013 Paul Zick Ovarian Cancer Ovarian Cancer is a group of diseases that have a common uncontrolled growth of cells in the body. A collection of cells is called a tumor‚ a begin tumor does not spread beyond the initial location of the cancer. When the cells spread in the body‚ this is known to be called a malignant tumor. When you are diagnosed with cancer this means that you are diagnosed with a malignant tumor and it has spread through
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One woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes and one woman will die of breast cancer every thirteen minutes in the U.S. This is very sad but true. People know that it happens‚ but it’ll never happen to them‚ until it hits close to home. There are precautions that women can take to lower their risk of developing the disease. Knowing what to look for can save a life as far as early detection. The best thing that anyone can do is to educate themselves so that they are aware of signs
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Advancements in Cancer Technology and Treatment Even though there is no cure for cancer‚ technology has made many strides in hoping to cure cancer. In 2003‚ Eric Schuetz‚ a pharmacist who works for the Maryland Poison Center‚ learned that he had an inoperable brain tumor after receiving an MRI scan for a non-cancerous pituitary tumor. Within that year he received “gamma knife” treatment‚ and then 10 years later ran a half-marathon with his wife to help fundraise money for the cancer center. When thinking
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Skin Cancer Introduction “Skin cancer is a disease in which malignant cancer cells are found in the outer layers of the skin. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S.‚ affecting more than 1 million people each year.” (Health scout 2001-2006 1). Many people don’t take the risk of skin cancer seriously and continue to lie out in sun regardless of the consequences. The consequences of lying out in the sun can be the development of basal cell carcinoma‚ squamous cell carcinoma‚ and/or
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Cervical cancer is the second common cancer in women. Cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillovirus ‚ or also known as HPV. Some people may not experience any cervical cancer symptoms. There are several risk factors that may increase the risk such as having multiple partners. Having sex at an early age may also increase the risk of HPV. Sexual transmitted diseases such as Chlamydia‚ gonorrhea‚ and cigarette smoking can also cause cervical cancer. There are treatments
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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. There are two different types of skin cancers: Melanomas and non-melanomas. To understand both of these terms a little better you need to be aware that your skin is divided up into 3 layers: the epidermis‚ dermis‚ and subcutis. The top layer‚ the epidermis‚ is very thin and serves to protect the deeper layers of the skin. The epidermis is also composed of basal cells‚ which in turn divide to form squamous cells and melanocytes. Melanoma
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of the gallbladder as well as other factors that may all lead to pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic carcinoma is cancer of the pancreas. It is consider a malignant neoplasm disease of abnormal mass of tissue. Normally‚ the cells in the body follws an orderly growth‚ division‚ and eventually dies off but when the process for the pancreas is interrupted cancer begins to form at site. The most common type of pancreatic cancer is the adenocarcinoma arising from the exocrine gland as glandular cells in
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Kidney Cancer KIdney Cancer is when cells in the body grow out of control. These cells can form a tumor or damaged tissue. If cancer cells grow in the kidney‚ it is called kidney cancer. The most common kidney cancer in adults is renal cell carcinoma. It forms in the lining of very small tubes in the kidney. Cancers found in the center of the kidney are known as transitional cell carcinoma. Wilms tumor is a kidney cancer that very young children can get. On average‚ people are diagnosed with kidney
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