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Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...

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 ...

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...

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...

Breast Cancer Support Group Grant Proposal

In five pages this paper proposes a study and literature review on how breast cancer survivors benefit from support groups. Five ...

Breast Cancer and Coping

In a paper consisting of six pages the various psychological issues connected with breast cancer are examined as a way of coping b...

Sun Exposure and Skin Cancer

In six pages this paper discusses the connection between skin cancer and sun exposure. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

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...

Article Reviews on Breast Cancer

In five pages breast cancer treatment is examined through its representation in three journal articles on the topic. Three source...

Postoperative Patients with Breast Cancer and Self Image

This paper discusses the importance of self image in terms of society and the individual in this examination of postsurgery patien...

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...

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...

Incidences of Prostate Cancer

are about 50 percent more likely than white men to get this kind of cancer. Black men also have the highest mortality rate from pr...

Fund Raising Options For Breast Cancer Research

in pink light, whihc is the color of breast cancer awareness. For example, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia had...

Nutritional Needs of Critically Ill Cancer Patients and Cachexia

positive outcomes. However, researchers and clinicians are constantly seeking new means of therapeutic intervention for treatment ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Overview of Monoclonal Antibody

key to the cure for cancer (2002). As the twentieth century progressed, there seemed to be more and more cancer, and the cure for ...

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...

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...

Lung Cancer from Smoking and Oset, Cellular Division, and Gender: Common Links Between Osteoporosis and Lung Cancer

A 5 page review of the cellular manifestations of two potentially deadly conditions. Identifies these diseases as targeting femal...

Old Age Conceptual Understanding

In eight pages this paper attempts to understand the concept of 'old age' and the current lack of respect being accorded senior ci...

Communication Issues/Neonatal ICU

some problems that can be encountered include "breast engorgement, nipple soreness, and latch-on" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). An interp...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Michael Moore's "Sicko" - Health Care That Harms Rather Than Helps

head of the largest Anti-Michael Moore website announced that he had to delete the website because his wife had cancer and the ins...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...