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Complications and Side Effects from Chemotherapy

and chemotherapeutic agents are classified depending on which phase in the cell cycle they are active. Some chemotherapeutic agent...

Music Therapy and Cancer Patients

In twelve pages a literature review is included in this hypothetical study that considers the effects and potential benefits of mu...

Patient and Relationship Development, Illness Treatment and Coping

In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Women and the Impact of Breast Cancer

least three months of debilitating treatments, which can cause nausea, vomiting, lack of energy, and a general feeling of malaise....

Article Critique/Cancer Patient Distress

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

Emotions Effects on Cancer

system to destroy abnormal cells. Hormone production is directly connected to psychological states. Countless women can attest to ...

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...

The Life and Contributions of Walter Payton

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

H.R. 1723/ S. 830 Breast Cancer And Environmental Research Act Of 2001

Another breast cancer patient is diagnosed every 2 minutes and one woman dies from this disease every 13 minutes (The Orator, 2001...

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, ...

Cervical or Breast Cancer and the High Incidences in African American Women

National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...

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...

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...

Case Study/Breast Cancer

to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...

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...

Article Analysis: Skin Cancer

and middle schools" (Geller et al, 2003). The overall objective of the SunWise program is to provide "sun protection education to ...

Treatments for Lung Cancer

they offer much hope. As such the arrival of Iressa seemed incredibly promising: "Adriane Riddle, had traveled from San Bernardin...

Breast Cancer Treatment and Types of Therapies, Alternative and Common

In a paper consisting of eleven pages breast cancer is considered in terms of its medical significance as the second leading cause...

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...

Sexual Health Maintenance

In 8 pages this paper discusses how to maintain sexual health in contemporary society in a consideration of cancer, sexually trans...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...