YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Postoperative Patients with Breast Cancer and Self Image
Essays 61 - 90
help each other and empowers them to become their own health care advocates" (Anonymous, 2002), all of which requires the shelter ...
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...
of cancer and that women with high concentrations of estradiol in their blood stream are at the greatest risk of developing breast...
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)...
women cope with this diagnosis. The following examination of this body of research demonstrates that while some studies are inform...
of cell cycle progression change when cells become cancerous. One of these aspects is the proto-oncoprotein c-Src (Taylor and Sha...
2002). Finally, the paper notes that there should be an adequate screening test that is "capable of detecting the susceptibility, ...
five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables should be part of a daily diet. it is believed that the chemicals found in fruit...
and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...
& Wellness Week, 2005). This is important because estrogen is associated with the development of an estimated three-fourths of po...
prevent women from participating. The purpose of this study is to determine whether African American womens perceptions of BSE, P...
detected are already in the later incurable stages (Jones, 1999). There are many arguments regarding issues such the ethical res...
Research Report, 2002). Figure 1; Respondents Age Group Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Age...
of thousands of pounds of food every day on an international level (Gillespie, 2003). In 2003, the Red Cross joined "the Food and ...
dense or fatty breasts. Poplack, et al. (2000) provide definitions that can be applied to the more general patient. "Screening i...
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...
& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...
harming healthy cells, which is a negative side effect of both radiation and chemotherapy (Meisheid, 2005). In 2003, the American...
these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...
but it is not uncommon for breast masses that develop in this area to be malignant. Determining the presence of a breast mass is ...
to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...
"uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably ...
dose of antibiotics, after which time -- when the indications do not disappear -- further testing in the form of biopsy, ultrasoun...
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...
et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...
Wisdom, 2004). Between 1990 and 2000, breast cancers diagnosed earlier (thus leading to a higher survival rate), increase...