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U S Soldiers Institute Of Medicine
1,542 words... e to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam. Studies find that TCDD elicits a diverse spectrum of biological sex, strain, age, and species-specific effects; including carcinogenicity, immuno toxicity, reproductive / developmental toxicity, hepatotoxicity, neurotoxicity, chlorine, and loss of body weight. These effects vary according to the age, sex, species, and strain of the animals involved. To date, the scientific consensus is that TCDD is not genotoxic and that its ability to ...
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Vocal Cords Laryngeal Cancer Larynx
452 wordsIn society today a child grows up worrying about his or her looks, grades and even popularity. With maturation comes matured fears and knowledge about things going on around the globe. As one gets older, one tends to become more concerned about health related issues. Men and women might start to eat better meals and become conscious of the different diseases that exist. Men begin to annually get their prostate examined while women begin to get mammograms. However, some people are not so health c...
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African American Males Prostate Cancer
315 wordsThe Director of the Heart Failure and Transplantation Unit at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics was extremely excited with the news of a gene recently identified. Baylor College of Medicine researchers have identified a new gene that is responsible for dilated cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of heart failure in children and adults. It is a common heart muscle disease. Baylor College of Medicine researchers believe they have found...
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Urinary Tract Prostate Gland
1,788 wordsHow do the urinary system work? ? Your body takes nutrients from food and uses them to maintain all bodily functions including energy and self-repair. After your body has taken what it needs from the food, waste products are left behind in the blood and in the bowel. The urinary system works with the lungs, skin, and intestines -- all of which also excrete wastes -- to keep the chemicals and water in your body balanced. Adults eliminate about a quart and a half of urine each day. The amount depe...
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The Male Sexual Anatomy
1,168 wordsIn Greek art, the male human nude was used as a canon of human perfection. The sensuous male form in motion was considered the crowning achievement of Greek sculpture. Its asymmetrical balance, this motion while at rest, and the resulting harmony of opposites is the essence of male beauty. The following will discuss the male sexual anatomy, physiology, and overall sexual health. In examining the male sexual body, the anatomy encompasses both the external and the internal sex organs. The external...
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Eat Meat French Fries
1,230 wordsEveryday, more and more people are making the choice to lead a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. Vegans abstain from partaking in all animal products, including honey and dairy products. Vegans do not use goose down, silk, wool or leather. The American Vegan Society (AVS) says that vegan is describing a lifestyle that avoids all forms of animal life, not just a diet (Krizmaniac 8). The definition of a true vegetarian is a person who does not eat any meat products or gelatin, but does eat dairy prod...
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American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
697 wordsProstate Cancer is a malignancy of the prostate gland, a walnut-sized organ located under the bladder in males. The prostate gland surrounds the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the penis. The American Cancer Society estimates that 317, 100 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States and that 41, 400 men die from the disease each year. It is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer in American men. The specific cause...
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Extra Chromosome Genetic Material
1,960 wordsIn 1942, Dr. Harry Klinefelter and his coworkers at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston published a report about nine men who had enlarged breasts, sparse facial and body hair, small testes, and an inability to produce sperm. By the late 1950 s, researchers discovered that men with Klinefelter syndrome, as this group of symptoms came to be called, had an extra sex chromosome, XXY instead of the usual male arrangement, XY. In the early 1970 s, researchers around the world sought to ident...
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Anabolic Steroids Hormone Testosterone
1,064 wordsMany people have had their lives ruined by the use of illegal steroids, yet the desired effects are so overwhelming that people tend to overlook the consequences. Steroid users believe taking anabolic steroids will enhance their performance, strength, size, etc. They regard the use of them as legitimate as any other aspect of training. To begin with, the term 'anabolic ' means 'to build tissue, ' therefore anabolic steroids tend to increase constructive metabolic pathways within the body. Also, ...
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African American Men Prostate Cancer
737 wordsSenior Capstone Project Mod 3 (1) The goal of Prostate Outreach Project for African American Men is to increase the level of prostate cancer awareness among Black males, who are encouraged to think of it as something that is defined by both: hereditary factors and lifestyle. The Projects other goal is to collect and classify data, related to prostate cancer, among underserved minority groups, such as Black Americans. This data is being used in scientific research, which is conducted for the purp...
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Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy
1,592 words... radioactive seeds into the prostate (brachytherapy). External beam radiation therapy is given over a course of 6 to 8 weeks through carefully defined portals. Refinements in technique have allowed greater doses of radiation to be administered with a lower risk of morbidity. Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy is the preferred method of administration in a dose of 75 to 80 Gy. (Greenlee 32). Radiation therapy cannot cure nodal metastases. Disease-specific, 7 -year survival with radiation...
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Germ Line Therapy Genetic Diseases
1,547 wordsWhether it is referred to by its scientific term syngamy or by the general term conception, the moment a sperm cell unites with an egg cell stirs, both in the scientist and the layperson, much awe and reverence. It is the point at which a new and unique genome is created. To some it is the instant a new person comes into existence. Such a union has been repeated for billions of years since its advent in the first, simple organisms. It is a means by which evolution can exert its influence. When t...
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Prostate Gland Prostate Cancer
531 wordsHISTORY OF THE PROSTATE GLAND The prostate is a gland that is located just underneath the bladder. It surrounds the urethra through which a man urinates. The prostate gland is therefore vital to proper bladder control and urine flow-rate. The prostate is also essential for normal sexual function. It is the gland of ejaculation, supplying 95 % of the seminal fluid and the power to push it through the urethra and out of the penis. The normal prostate in an adult man is about the size of a walnut. ...
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Cell Division Prostate Cancer
1,104 wordsDiscuss social, ethical and biological issues associated with cancer Cancer is one of the most complex and devastating diseases that claim the life of many humans. Today there are one in three people worldwide who are affected by cancer, and almost 60 % of these people will almost certainly die. 7000 New Zealanders die every year from this disease. It is the second largest killer next to heart disease. Cancer does not just affect certain groups of people, it can affect anybody and it is not just...
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Cell Division Prostate Cancer
1,110 wordsSocial, Ethical And Biological Issues Associated With Social, Ethical And Biological Issues Associated With Cancer Cancer is one of the most complex and devastating diseases that claim the life of many humans. Today there are one in three people worldwide who are affected by cancer, and almost 60 % of these people will almost certainly die. 7000 New Zealanders die every year from this disease. It is the second largest killer next to heart disease. Cancer does not just affect certain groups of pe...
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Parts Of The Body Prostate Gland
913 wordsProstate cancer is a common form of cancer that has affected most every man whether he knows it or not. There are many factors and risks that can lead to this deadly cancer. With the help of highly trained doctors, fatalities can be can be lowered, yet sometimes things still happen. Prostate cancer is the cancer of the male reproductive organ. The prostate make prosthetic fluid. The prostate also forms semen, but the most important function of the prostate is to regulate the acidity of the semen...
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African American Males Prostate Cancer
328 wordsweb September, 2000 Gene Identified for Cardiomyopathy The Director of the Heart Failure and Transplantation Unit at Texas Childrens Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics was extremely excited with the news of a gene recently identified. Baylor College of Medicine researchers have identified a new gene that is responsible for dilated cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of heart failure in children and adults. It is a common heart muscle disease. Baylor C...
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Mental Retardation Extra Chromosome
1,780 wordsTHEKlinefelter Syndrome KLINEFELTER SYNDROME THE XXY BOY IN THE CLASSROOM Although there are exceptions, XXY boys are usually well behaved in the classroom. Most are shy, quiet, and eager to please the teacher. But when faced with material they find difficult, they tend to withdraw into quiet daydreaming. Teachers sometimes fail to realize they have a language problem, and dismiss them as lazy, saying they could do the work if they would only try. Many become so quiet that teachers forget theyre...
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Men And Women Androgenic Steroids
1,096 wordsIn the past three decades, steroids have become a serious problem in the athletic field. The demand for it has increased within recent years and the prices shot up since the mid- 1980 s. The smuggling of steroids into the United States increases every year. The methods have become easy. Simple methods such as stashing it inside a teddy bear, sneaking it across the Mexican border inside shampoo bottles have worked. These type of steroids are anabolic drugs that build growth hormones that include ...
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Major League Baseball Anabolic Steroids
1,016 wordsIn the last decade many records have been broken in the world of athletics, is this do to harder training and work ethic or the ignorant testing of anabolic steroids. With technological advances the enhancement of athletes is at the fingertips of scientists. With one shot an athlete could up testosterone levels by over a hundred percent. Is this safe? Or is the real question is this fair to the athletes who years ago did not have this option. Researchers have examined such supplements as dianabo...
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