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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...

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...

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...

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). ...

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, ...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...

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...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Dying and the 'Execution' of Death

concerning their death. In the case of individuals diagnosed with cancer who have gone through all the treatments possible and kno...

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...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

Cancer Treatment Facility Business Plan

treatments in a modern, caring and supportive environment" This lays down the aim of the company, to set up a facility which will...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Smoking and its Impacts to Human Health

hazard and choosing to smoke is the risk factor. Being exposed to secondhand smoke is a risk factor as well. Just because tobac...

Lance Armstrong Leader and Cancer Survivor

is called "drafting" (Harkins and Hollihan, 2009). When the cyclist in front becomes exhausted from the effort, he goes to the bac...

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...

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 ...

Preventing Cancer with Good Nutrition

one of the more frightening diseases threatening mankind. Cancer can impact any area of our body. Sometimes cancer is sex specif...

Prostate Cancer

history of prostate cancer should be aware that they have a higher risk of developing this disease. It is unknown why, but Black m...

The Symptoms of Lung Cancer

The difficulties result from plural effusion, a build up of fluid between the outer lining of the lungs and the chest wall,...

SUPPLY, DEMAND AND HEALTHCARE: THE STUDY OF CANCER

Provides a study of cancer in an economic context. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 5-page paper....

How Breast Cancer Effects Women

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the psychological effects of breast cancer on women. This paper includes effects before and...

Cancer Patients and Nutrition

This research paper/essay offers a discussion of the importance of nutrition and its effects on cancer survivors. Three pages in l...

Nutrition and Cancer, A Capstone Project

This paper describes a capstone project that focuses on the connections between nutrition and cancer. The project will also explor...

Meal Plan for a Cancer Patient

This paper offers a meal plant designed to address the needs of a cancer patient. Three pages in length, six sources are cited. ...