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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...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

A Cancer Constellation Overview

and the average person will be able to view them simply by peering into the sky and seeking a noticeable cluster of stars (2004). ...

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...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Characteristics of Bladder Cancer Cells

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

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...

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 ...

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...

Human Health and Impact of the Environment

et. al. (2000), for example, reemphasizes the importance of links made in the 1970s between male infertility and exposure to pesti...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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...