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Cancer and Proto Oncogenes

specific tumor viruses. According to Lander (2001), more than half of all human tumors are associated with defects in the p53 g...

Information on Prostate Cancer

In eight pages a March 2001 article published in The New York Times about prostate cancer and the unusual approach it takes in ter...

Dentists, Oral Hygienists, and Oral Cancer

In five pages this report examines the risk factor represented by tobacco in the incidence of oral cancer. Five sources are cited...

Physical Effects of Smoking

is interesting to note that the increase of smoking in America has steadily correlated with the increasing incidence of lung cance...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...

Margaret Edson's Wit and Ovarian Cancer

die, as well as informing us that humor is a large part of her inherent nature in terms of dealing with the fatal realities. In...

Cancer and Minorities

The study also shows evidence that Asian Americans run an increased risk of stomach and liver cancer, and that Hispanic American a...

Complications and Side Effects from Chemotherapy

and chemotherapeutic agents are classified depending on which phase in the cell cycle they are active. Some chemotherapeutic agent...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Case Study on Toxic Waste Exporting and Ethics

of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...

Student Supplied Case Study on Moral Pastoral Practice

worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...

A Quantitative Research Report Analysis

Smith, et al. (2002) do not highlight a specific problem statement, but rather present a research question used to establish a fra...

Thin and Standard Preparatory Pap Smear Screening Tool Assessment

Pap smear testing is at age eighteen, however, some within the medical community believe it is not necessary to institute a yearly...

Unfair Exclusion in the Process of Adoption

adoption system. A case study may help to demonstrate why a parent should be allowed to adopt again, even if she had endured a pot...

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...

Overview of Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma affects mainly the men who worked in construction trades including shipbuilding, where asbestos was most often used. ...

Chemotherapy and Side Effects

it may be used to reduce tumors ("What is Chemotherapy"). The chemotherapy drugs used in this way destroy the cancer cells "by st...

Characteristics of Bladder Cancer Cells

as either low-stage (superficial) or high-stage (muscle invasive). In industrialized countries (the US, Canada, France), more than...

An Article on Cancer Patients' Psychological Interventions Examined

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

Risk and Hypertension, Pancreatic Cancer

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

How to Encourage Smokers to Give Up Smoking

be used and then consider how the campaign may take place. 2. The Problem The overall lifetime risk of developing lung cancer ...

Smoking and Its Impact on the Lungs

its effects on the cellular structure of the respiratory system. It actually burns though the cell walls of the lungs just minute...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Emotions Effects on Cancer

system to destroy abnormal cells. Hormone production is directly connected to psychological states. Countless women can attest to ...

Cancer and Homes with Unacceptable Radon Gas Levels

types of rock may have higher concentrations of uranium and may produce higher levels of radon, elevated radon levels can also be ...

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...