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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 ...

Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...

How to Cope with Breast Cancer

women cope with this diagnosis. The following examination of this body of research demonstrates that while some studies are inform...

Postoperative Patients with Breast Cancer and Self Image

This paper discusses the importance of self image in terms of society and the individual in this examination of postsurgery patien...

Breast Cancer Support Group Grant Proposal

In five pages this paper proposes a study and literature review on how breast cancer survivors benefit from support groups. Five ...

Article Reviews on Breast Cancer

In five pages breast cancer treatment is examined through its representation in three journal articles on the topic. Three source...

Incidences of Prostate Cancer

are about 50 percent more likely than white men to get this kind of cancer. Black men also have the highest mortality rate from pr...

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, ...

Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In ten pages this paper argues in favor of a medical need for marijuana to be legally used citing the similar character properties...

Fund Raising Options For Breast Cancer Research

in pink light, whihc is the color of breast cancer awareness. For example, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia had...

Screening for Colon and Rectal Cancer

100,000 population (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1997). Survival rate is dependent upon the stage of the disease w...

Breast Cancer Prevention Strategies

This research paper reviews recent research that indicates prevention strategies that affect overall risk for breast cancer. Six p...

PICOT Question: Chemotherapy-induced Nausea

This research paper utilizes a PICOT formatted question to search various databases for articles pertaining to chemically-induced ...

Genetics and Cancer

In seven pages this paper provides professional and personal views regarding the possibility of a genetic predisposition towards c...

Cancer and Genetic Expression

In twelve pages this paper considers cancer control through the implications and actions associated with the telomerase enzyme and...

The Effectiveness of Bone Marrow Transplants as a Cancer Treatment

The writer examines the effectiveness of various cancer treatments, including bovine cartilage transplants. The paper is twelve pa...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Through TURP and Seed Implantation or Brachytherapy

the first person to use the Northern Territorys voluntary euthanasia law. Dent was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991...

The BRCA1 Gene

The writer discusses the BRCA1 gene and its putative links to ovarian and breast cancer. The paper is seven pages long and there a...

Overview of Massage Therapy

In three pages this research paper examines massage therapy in terms of its stress and cancer benefits according to recent researc...

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. ...

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...

The Most Common Cause of Liver Diseases

Hepatitis C is a disease that evolves, which means it can build up immunities to treatments. It is the most common cause of chron...

Randy Pausch as an Exemplary Leader

his life. At the end of the infamous lecture, Pausch does say that he believes in karma. He talks about doing things for others an...

Breast Cancer in Women

"uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably ...

IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer

dose of antibiotics, after which time -- when the indications do not disappear -- further testing in the form of biopsy, ultrasoun...

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...

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 ...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...