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Another breast cancer patient is diagnosed every 2 minutes and one woman dies from this disease every 13 minutes (The Orator, 2001...
National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...
to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...
women cope with this diagnosis. The following examination of this body of research demonstrates that while some studies are inform...
Research Report, 2002). Figure 1; Respondents Age Group Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Age...
detected are already in the later incurable stages (Jones, 1999). There are many arguments regarding issues such the ethical res...
five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables should be part of a daily diet. it is believed that the chemicals found in fruit...
prevent women from participating. The purpose of this study is to determine whether African American womens perceptions of BSE, P...
must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...
in general, and the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal American women. Sampling Procedures The sampling...
dense or fatty breasts. Poplack, et al. (2000) provide definitions that can be applied to the more general patient. "Screening i...
& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...
of thousands of pounds of food every day on an international level (Gillespie, 2003). In 2003, the Red Cross joined "the Food and ...
harming healthy cells, which is a negative side effect of both radiation and chemotherapy (Meisheid, 2005). In 2003, the American...
or seven years and her body had an auto-mastectomy" (2003, 28). The fact that some women receive better care does not account for...
also states that the intervention did not work ands came to the conclusion there was not treatment (American Cancer Society, 2005)...
& Wellness Week, 2005). This is important because estrogen is associated with the development of an estimated three-fourths of po...
of cancer and that women with high concentrations of estradiol in their blood stream are at the greatest risk of developing breast...
2002). Finally, the paper notes that there should be an adequate screening test that is "capable of detecting the susceptibility, ...
carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...
is an article that illustrates perhaps how little the medical community really knows about the condition. In trying to understan...
he was so sick. The first I knew about it was a call from my Mom. She didnt give me any details over the phone, just said Dad was ...
young girls to become promiscuous (Gulli, 2006). These groups emphasize that abstinence is the best protection against sexually tr...
in a very clear text, against a plain background1, with text written in blue making it very easy to read. This also helps the targ...
for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...
In five pages female breast reduction surgery is considered in an overview of techniques, costs, and recovery with social implicat...
In eight pages popular literature is reviewed in this discussion of breast implants and examines why women opt for this procedure ...
with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...
that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...
In this three page essay, the writer provides a Critique, as well as a Summary of this book written by Molly O'Neill. One source w...