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Gilda Radner's Ovarian Cancer and the Role of Medical Care

of sorts. The problem with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any...

Screenings for Colorectal Cancer and Ethics

application of diagnostic tests or procedures to asymptomatic people for the benefit of dividing them into two groups: those who h...

Breast Cancer Research Article and Critique of Qualitative Research

prevent women from participating. The purpose of this study is to determine whether African American womens perceptions of BSE, P...

Pilot Study on Cancer Diagnosis and Minorities

suggests that there is a level of stigmatization and fear that is prevalent in minority communities that reduces the chances that ...

Research Results on Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer

Research Report, 2002). Figure 1; Respondents Age Group Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Age...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

The Life and Contributions of Walter Payton

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

PET Scanning For Staging And Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

the gastrointestinal system. Patients with no metastasis are more readily afforded the standard five-year survival rate compared ...

Gardasil Vaccine/The Debate

young girls to become promiscuous (Gulli, 2006). These groups emphasize that abstinence is the best protection against sexually tr...

Article Critique/Where Terminally Ill Prefer to Die

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

Article Critique/Cancer Patient Distress

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

Organizational Change; From A Traditional Organizational Model to A Transformed Organizational Model

Jordanian royal court undertook consultations with the US Health and Human Services National Cancer Institute (Moe et al., 2007). ...

Article Analysis: Skin Cancer

and middle schools" (Geller et al, 2003). The overall objective of the SunWise program is to provide "sun protection education to ...

Smoking and Lung Cancer in Women

a Machiavelli. This assertion could be argued in challenging the central premise of this article. In fact, in order for effecti...

Case Study/Breast Cancer

to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...

Prostate Cancer/PSA screening

an increase in the early detection of cancer, as well as detection of a "migration to lower-stage and -volume tumors," it remains ...

Nanotechnology and Its' Use in the Human Body; It is Desirable or Ethical?

potentially large number of benefits there are also a wide range of ethical and acceptability issues that need to be considered a...

Breast Cancer Examination

but it is not uncommon for breast masses that develop in this area to be malignant. Determining the presence of a breast mass is ...

Analysis of Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream

Both have been linked to cancer" (p. 6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about ...

Randy Pausch as an Exemplary Leader

his life. At the end of the infamous lecture, Pausch does say that he believes in karma. He talks about doing things for others an...

THERAC 25- A CASE STUDY

was notified that a patient in Hamilton had been overdosed. In addition, AECL informed the FDA and the Canadian Radiation Protecti...

Vaccinations Do Not Translate Into Sexual Promiscuity!

population base for which it is intended. Needless to say, the controversy surrounding this vaccination is perplexing or even inf...

CANCER, ITS IMPORTANCE, AND SOCIETAL IMPACT

But what is the deal when these cells multiply, and why is this bad? Normal cells are needed to keep the body healthy - when they ...

BREAST CANCER -- MICHIGAN

Wisdom, 2004). Between 1990 and 2000, breast cancers diagnosed earlier (thus leading to a higher survival rate), increase...

About Cancer of the Colon

a parent has FAP or HNPCC, his or her children run a 50 percent risk of inheriting the mutated gene" ("Colon Cancer"). Inheriting ...

Risk and Hypertension, Pancreatic Cancer

and total energy intake"), the researchers determined that lycopene, which was provided primarily from tomatoes, could be associat...

Nurse's Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...