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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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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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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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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seminal vesicles. (Unknown‚ 2011) Testicular cancer is a disease in which cells become malignant. When a cell becomes malignant‚ it becomes cancerous. Testicular cancer can start in one or both testicles. This type of cancer is the most common type of cancer in young men between the ages of 15 and 35. Testicular cancer can be classified into two types: seminoma and nonseminoma. Seminomas make up of 30 percent of all testicular cancers. Nonseminomas are groups of cancers that include choriocarcinoma‚
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Glimpse Of Prostate Cancer Introduction – Prostate cancer is as terrifying as any cancer. Even more frightening and confusing is the cancer treatment options that you have to choose. Whether a surgery is performed or radiation therapy is administered on you‚ the two principal treatments of this kind of cancer‚ the fear is obviously overwhelming. Fear may even start from what people say about your job‚ your lifestyle‚ your family tree‚ your risk of developing prostate cancer‚ your need to be
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Getting diagnosed with cancer is just about the worst kind of news anyone can get. Approximately 38.5% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life (1). Unfortunately it seems that the majority of people don’t have a comfortable understanding about what this disease really is‚ what the available treatments are‚ and how they work. Cancer is most definitely always fatal‚ unless caught in time and treated properly. Just by taking a look at the statistics‚ it’s easy to
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Testicular torsion (TT) is a serious medical emergency that is mostly encountered in newborn and adolescent males but it can occur in any age and needs urgent surgical intervention 1. TT is defined as a rotation of the longitudinal axis of the spermatic cord resulting in obstruction of testicular blood flow 2. Torsion/Detorsion is a typical condition of ischemia reperfusion in which torsion comprises the ischemic period whereas detorsion occupies the reperfusion period which is the main cause of
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Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide‚ and the leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality1. Cigarette smoking is firmly established as a causative agent for lung cancer‚ although about 80 percent of people who develop lung cancer nowadays are non-smokers 2‚3. Inflammatory lung processes‚ such as obstructive pulmonary disease‚ emphysema‚ chronic bronchitis‚ pneumonia and tuberculosis are also known risk factors for lung cancer‚ with significant effects observed for pneumonia
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Breast Cancer in England A Report Based on the Presentation of Statistical Information Dilruwa Rajapakse dr248 CB313 Group 04 Contents 1.0 Abstract ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------03 2.0 Introduction----------------------------------------------------------------------------03 3.0 Methodology --------------------------------------------------------------------------03 4.0 Findings---------------------------------------------------------------------------------04
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