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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...

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...

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, ...

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). ...

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...

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...

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...

Ovarian Cancer/An Overview

: The precise causes of ovarian cancer remain unknown, but some researchers believe that it has to do with the processes of tissue...

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 ...

Carcinoma of the Breast

harming healthy cells, which is a negative side effect of both radiation and chemotherapy (Meisheid, 2005). In 2003, the American...

Article Critique/Cancer Patient Distress

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

Evaluation of an Article on Nutrition

five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables should be part of a daily diet. it is believed that the chemicals found in fruit...

Past and Present Treatment for Cancer

the first cancer-causing gene--an oncogene--which is shown to plan a role in human bladder cancer; more than 50 oncogenes have bee...

Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer, Behavior, Attitudes, and Knowledge

detected are already in the later incurable stages (Jones, 1999). There are many arguments regarding issues such the ethical res...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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)...

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...

Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

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. ...

Risk and Hypertension, Pancreatic Cancer

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

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...

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 ...