Breast cancer is a frightening disease. It can be fatal‚ and while two thirds of the cases occur among mature women‚ it also strikes younger females and about nine thousand males each year. The fear generated by breast cancer is intensified by the somewhat shocking reality that breast cancer has actually increased over the last fifty years. In 1940‚ a woman had a one-in-twenty chance of developing the disease‚ while today one out of every eight women will get breast cancer. According to the National
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1. What are the causes of skin cancer? Exposure to abnormally high frequencies of light can potentially alter the DNA of a cell and turn it cancerous‚ the resulting cancerous cells are known as skin cancer. The most common cause is ultraviolet light emitted by the sun although it has been known to be caused by tanning booths‚ unusually high levels of x-rays‚ exposure to some chemicals and in rare cases the abnormal genes that cause skin cancer can be inherited by children from their parents.
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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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Case Study 1: Breast Cancer Situation: The client is a 50-year-old female teacher who was notified of an abnormal screening mammogram. Diagnosis of infiltrating ductal carcinoma was made following a stereotactic needle biopsy of a 1.5 x 1.5 cm lobulated mass at the 3:00 position in her left breast. The client had a modified radical mastectomy with lymph node dissection. The sentinel lymph node and 11 of 16 lymph nodes were positive for tumor. Estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors were
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Depression is a very serious disease that is often overlooked in a clinical setting. The patient population associated with depression ranges from children to the elderly. However‚ this specific report will address the clinical prevention techniques for nonpregnant adults over the age of 18. According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in their Task Force Final Recommendation 2016 edition‚ “ depression is one of the leading causes of disability in adults. It affects men and women of all
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How can AKI be prevented? According to the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death 2009‚ up to 30% of cases of acute kidney injury may be preventable and the best ’treatment of AKI is prevention.’ [3]This can mainly be done by identifying patients most at risk as early as possible. This would involve constant monitoring of urinary output and serum creatinine levels for the high risk patients. However in general‚ all hospitalized patients with acute illness should be monitored
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Breast Cancer: Introduction Breast cancer ranks as one of the leading cancer types in the number of new cases diagnosed and is second only to lung cancer as the the most prevalent cause of cancer death in women. In 2010 the American Cancer Society estimates approximately 209‚060 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed and 40‚230 deaths due to breast cancer will occur in the United States. It is important to note that men also develop breast cancer. Approximately 390 of the estimated deaths
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4 major types of cells that can be found in the skin. The 4 major types of cells that are found in the human body are keratinocytes‚ melanocytes‚ epidermal dendritic (Langerhans)‚ and the tactile (Merkel) cells. The keratinocytes‚ which are epithelia cells‚ are the most abundant cells in human body and dominate the epidermis. These cells contain keratin and work together to form layers known as thick skin‚ which consists of 5 layers‚ and thin skin‚ which consists of 4 layers. These cells are in the
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Prostate Cancer Vanessa KouakouBiology 418 11/05/14 Dr. Ashraf Abstract This paper is about prostate cancer and how it affects must of the African American. It is also to know more about prostate cancer and how it can be treat‚ and also what are the consequences and affection of this sickness. First what is prostate cancer? Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men (after skin cancer)‚ but it can often be treated successfully. More than 2 million men in the US count themselves
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Prevention Programs Papers: What type of drug prevention program is used to address the needs of the population? I am interviewing my local priest. I decided to interview him because I remember when I was in high school‚ I did volunteer work with him as a youth coordinator. The organization is called “YES”‚ they vary from many subjects and programs and prevention of drugs and alcohol is one of them. Father Miguel explained to me that the program educates not only the teens that are experimenting
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