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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...

Grief and a Breast Cancer Mastectomy

likely to be sexually active and have many years ahead of them which will need to be faced without one or both breasts. Furthermo...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

be reviewed closely and research which specifically targets African American women is essential. Interestingly enough, the "numbe...

Breast Cancer Treatment Choices

In a paper consisting of eleven pages breast cancer in the U.S. is considered with the primary focus being types of medical treatm...

Medical Views on Ovarian Cancer

any woman can get ovarian cancer. It just so happens that some women are more at risk. Signs and Symptoms The problem with ova...

Physical Effects of Smoking

is interesting to note that the increase of smoking in America has steadily correlated with the increasing incidence of lung cance...

Overview of New Gene Technology

spirit of the biotech race has led to a decrease in communication among researchers, resulting in little cooperation and hindering...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

Cancer Cells and Increased Mitotic Division Stimulation

In five pages this paper examines stimulating cancer cell division in this consideration of mitosis. Eight sources are cited in t...

'Retrovirus' Research and its Impact

In six pages the 1970s' cancer research studies and their effects are examined in a consideration of the contributions of Temin, R...

Cancer Detection and Breast Self Examination

In an analysis of the study, throughout 1994, doctors had diagnosed breast cancer in 144 of the women getting regular screenings a...

Christians and Cancer

In a paper consisting of five pages the Christian faith is considered with regards to cancer and the prospect of a prolonged death...

1991 Film The Doctor

This reaction paper consists of 6 pages and examines the film based upon surgeon Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's real life story of how his...

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 ...

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...

Medical Use of Marijuana and California's Proposition 215

In a paper consisting of ten pages the inhumanity of denying marijuana for medical use in cancer, AIDS and paraplegic patients is ...

Cancer Patients and Cessation of Smoking Cessation

of heavy alcohol ingestion and heavy cigarette smoking (Brown, Kresevic and Nosan, 1998). Purpose of the Study...

Shark Cartilage and its Medicinal Uses

In ten pages this paper discusses shark cartilage in a consideration of research regarding its medicinal uses in AIDS, arthritis, ...

Osteoporosis, Gout, Cancer, and the Impact of Nutrition

In twenty one pages this paper discusses the impact of nutrition upon such medical conditions as cancer, gout, and osteoporosis. ...

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...

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...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Postmenopausal Women, Breast Cancer Risk, and Raloxifene

of cancer and that women with high concentrations of estradiol in their blood stream are at the greatest risk of developing breast...

An Exploration of Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans

total nine hundred and two patients were men and the remaining forty-three percent were women (Chen, 2003). DFSP typically develo...

Nursing Journal Critique Upon Cancer Patient Treatment Through Therapeutic Massage

using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...

Cancer Support Groups and Remedial Model Usage

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...