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What You Should Know About Prostate Cancer

In twelve pages this research paper examines prostate cancer in a consideration of its symptoms, how it is diagnosed, and availabl...

Cell Phone and Brain Cancer Connection?

In twelve pages this paper studies medical research to conclude that brain cancer is not caused by cell phone usage. Eight source...

Colon Cancer Overview

by the erroneous function of the genes which are responsible for putting right mistakes when DNA replicates itself (Medical Post, ...

Information on Prostate Cancer

In eight pages a March 2001 article published in The New York Times about prostate cancer and the unusual approach it takes in ter...

In Home Cancer Treatment

In a paper consisting of six pages the growing trend towards treating cancer patients at home rather than at a medical facility is...

Overview of Testicular Cancer

In five pages this paper examines testicular cancer in an overview of symptoms, how it is diagnoses, treatment options, and curren...

Cancer and the Mutation Role of the p53 Gene

In five pages this research paper discusses how DNA damage causes p53 gene mutation when various cancers develop. Four sources ar...

Beneficial Vitamin A, C, and E

In five degrees, this paper discusses the many benefits of vitamins in the development of cancer. Six sources are cited in the bi...

Cancer Assessment Among Middle East Population

cancer research" (Middle East Cancer Consortium Small Grants Program). Currently the Authorities of Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan...

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...

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...

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...

Overview of Monoclonal Antibody

key to the cure for cancer (2002). As the twentieth century progressed, there seemed to be more and more cancer, and the cure for ...

Nutritional Needs of Critically Ill Cancer Patients and Cachexia

positive outcomes. However, researchers and clinicians are constantly seeking new means of therapeutic intervention for treatment ...

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...

Sun Exposure and Skin Cancer

In six pages this paper discusses the connection between skin cancer and sun exposure. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Dentists, Oral Hygienists, and Oral Cancer

In five pages this report examines the risk factor represented by tobacco in the incidence of oral cancer. Five sources are cited...

Cancer and Proto Oncogenes

specific tumor viruses. According to Lander (2001), more than half of all human tumors are associated with defects in the p53 g...

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...

Characteristics of Bladder Cancer Cells

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...