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Global Communications Benchmarking

This 3 page paper is based on a case study. Looking at issues faced in a case study on the fictitious company Global Communication...

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...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner

with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any event, things were mi...

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...

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...

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 ...

Behavior Influences on Health

it may not be recognised in all cases. The common symptoms of stress includes, tiredness and fatigue, weight changes for no obviou...

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....

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...

Smoking & Increased Prevalence of Lung Cancer in Women

be used to guide research investigation, as it can provide a framework on which empirical research can be based. For example, the ...

American Red Cross - Komen Foundation

of thousands of pounds of food every day on an international level (Gillespie, 2003). In 2003, the Red Cross joined "the Food and ...

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...

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...

Nurse Practitioner

collaborating physicians name. Authority to prescribe controlled substances includes Schedule II-V as outlined in the prescribers ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Characteristics of Bladder Cancer Cells

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

Risk of Breast Cancer

or seven years and her body had an auto-mastectomy" (2003, 28). The fact that some women receive better care does not account for...

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)...

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...

Breast Cancer Treatments of Arimidex and Tamoxifen

& Wellness Week, 2005). This is important because estrogen is associated with the development of an estimated three-fourths of po...

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...

Coping Strategies and Breast Cancer

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the field of nursing is discussed in terms of breast cancer, coping strategies, and how nurs...

Comparison of Caucasian and African American Men Rates of Prostate Cancer

In nine pages this paper compares the incidence rates between Caucasian and African American men regarding prostate cancer. Five ...

Music Therapy and Cancer Patients

In twelve pages a literature review is included in this hypothetical study that considers the effects and potential benefits of mu...

Patient and Relationship Development, Illness Treatment and Coping

In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...