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likely to be sexually active and have many years ahead of them which will need to be faced without one or both breasts. Furthermo...
order to come to an uninformed answer to the research questions. Statistical analysis was not undertaken due to the inconsistenc...
"uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably ...
In a paper consisting of ten pages the arguments surrounding adjuvant therapies and lumpectomies over radical or partial mastectom...
ductal or lobular carcinoma in situ (35 cases in the tamoxifen group vs. 69 cases in the placebo group). Nine participants have di...
In a paper consisting of twelve pages breast cancer issues are examined in terms of relevant current literature coverage of the di...
In five pages the article by Wendy Smith, Jamal Arif, and R. Gupta entitled 'Effects of cancer chemopreventative agents on microso...
percent, while rates among black women increase 1 percent, says the National Cancer Institute). Although White women are more li...
This research report takes a look at a variety of literature on the subject. Prostate and breast cancer are the diseases given the...
This research paper presents an overview of several different issues that apply to breast cancer. Topics surveyed include discussi...
This research paper offers an overview description of "Aunt Phyllis," a breast cancer survivor who is experiencing emotional diffi...
future ability to function. Their spouse, other family members and their friends will feel the same anxiety. A patient in intensiv...
child because they are sudden. NSIDRC (2005) wrote: Sudden death is a contradiction to everything that is known to be true in lif...
prefer the least invasive surgical option, others prefer the traditional approach (Katz and Hawley, 2007). Therefore, a major topi...
on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...
left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...
of thousands of pounds of food every day on an international level (Gillespie, 2003). In 2003, the Red Cross joined "the Food and ...
in general, and the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal American women. Sampling Procedures The sampling...
must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...
harming healthy cells, which is a negative side effect of both radiation and chemotherapy (Meisheid, 2005). In 2003, the American...
personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...
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...
Wisdom, 2004). Between 1990 and 2000, breast cancers diagnosed earlier (thus leading to a higher survival rate), increase...
Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...
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...
dense or fatty breasts. Poplack, et al. (2000) provide definitions that can be applied to the more general patient. "Screening i...
& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...