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Breast Cancer and Treatment Alterations Due to Attitudes, Theories, and Concepts

also states that the intervention did not work ands came to the conclusion there was not treatment (American Cancer Society, 2005)...

Lung Cancer in Men and Pain Management Through Narcotics

the 5 year mark after diagnosis (Kreamer, 2003). Tobacco use is the leading risk factor in regards to developing lung cancer and 8...

Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Cervical and Breast Cancer and Nutrition's Effects

of cell cycle progression change when cells become cancerous. One of these aspects is the proto-oncoprotein c-Src (Taylor and Sha...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Nursing Journal Critique Upon Cancer Patient Treatment Through Therapeutic Massage

using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...

A Cancer Constellation Overview

and the average person will be able to view them simply by peering into the sky and seeking a noticeable cluster of stars (2004). ...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Rural Southwest Queensland Australia and Developing a Breast Cancer Screening Program

2002). Finally, the paper notes that there should be an adequate screening test that is "capable of detecting the susceptibility, ...

More Negative Than Positive Effects of Anabolic Steroids

with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...

How to Cope with Breast Cancer

women cope with this diagnosis. The following examination of this body of research demonstrates that while some studies are inform...

Pathology and Treatment of Liver Cancer

Cancer, 2003). Of course the disease is serious, but it is potentially curable with the surgical intervention not accessible to m...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Postmenopausal Women, Breast Cancer Risk, and Raloxifene

of cancer and that women with high concentrations of estradiol in their blood stream are at the greatest risk of developing breast...

An Exploration of Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans

total nine hundred and two patients were men and the remaining forty-three percent were women (Chen, 2003). DFSP typically develo...

Cancer Support Groups and Remedial Model Usage

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

Social Work and Cancer

impacts for its male victims. The personal impacts of cancer necessitate even more care than would typically be employed in medic...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Cell Phones and Cancer: Examining Sources of Information

that has been devoted to it over the years, we still do not know what causes cancer. We know what cancer is and in most situation...

Article Overview of 'Rotating Night Shifts and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Participating in the Nurses' Health Study'

in general, and the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal American women. Sampling Procedures The sampling...

Breast Cancer and Mammogram Screening

dense or fatty breasts. Poplack, et al. (2000) provide definitions that can be applied to the more general patient. "Screening i...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

Bone Cancer Case Study and Nursing Interventions

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...

Three Cancer Diagnostic Tests

surface of the cervix to obtain a sample of cells from it (Bissinger, 2002). The examiner then transfers the collected cell...

Examination of Breast Cancer

& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...

Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Management

to the health care system, or that everyone should be screened just in case, but rather, that the testing can be uncomfortable, an...

Oncology and Coping with an Annotated Bibliography

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...