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Short Term Effects Surgical Abortions
1,465 wordsSince the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, about one out of three pregnancies end in abortion. This means that 1. 5 million abortions are performed in the United States each year (Flanders 3). Not since slavery has an issue posed a greater moral dilemma. It ranks among the most complex and controversial issues, arousing heated legal, political, and ethical debates. The modern debate over abortion is a conflict of competing moral ideas and of fundamental human rights: to life, to privac...
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Da Vinci Operating Room
832 wordsJust as computers revolutionized the later half of the twentieth century, the field of robotics has the promise to equally alter the way we live in the twenty first century. We have already seen how robots have modified the manufacturing of cars and other customer goods by streamlining and speeding up the assembly lines. Robots have also enabled us to see places that humans are not yet able to visit, such as other planets and depths of the ocean never before explored. And just as computer contro...
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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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