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Cancer Has Spread Lymph Nodes
1,980 words... important consideration is the stage of the disease. The stage is based on the size of the tumor and whether the cancer has spread. The following is a brief description of the stages of breast cancer and the treatments often used at each stage according to (Dollinger, Rosenbaum and Cable, 1991): Stage 0 is sometimes called noninvasive carcinoma or carcinoma in situ. Lobular carcinoma in situ, or LCIS, refers to abnormal cells in the lining of the lobule These abnormal cells seldom become inv...
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Physical And Environmental Effects Of A Nuclear War
1,316 wordsImagine the heat of millions of degrees, the immediate destruction of thousands of acres, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of lives. Now imagine all of that times a thousand. There you have a nuclear war, the explosion of a thousand or more nuclear bombs on the earth. That is what is estimated would be a nuclear war. All of that power packed in relatively small (considering the power they unleash) bombs. The results of a nuclear war would be devastating. It would be devastating to the hea...
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Problems And Treatment Of Peptic Ulcer Disease
1,551 words... on, and heartburn. Emergency Symptoms Gastrointestinal bleeding is the most serious complication of peptic ulcers. The bleeding is a result of an ulcer eroding into a blood vessel of the stomach or small intestine. The signs of bleeding are vomiting bright red blood, or a bowel movement consisting of bloody, or tarry, black stool. If the hemorrhage is very severe, weakness, shock, and loss of consciousness may occur. Obstruction of the digestive tract is another emergency complication of pep...
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B And C Loss Of Appetite
832 wordsThere are different ways that hepatitis B or C can be caught. They are spread by contact with infected blood or other body fluids of people who are infected with hepatitis B or C. Having sex with an infected person is an example of how you could be infected. When people who use intravenous drugs share needles with someone who has the virus, they can get hepatitis B or C. Health care workers, like nurses, lab technicians and doctors, can get infected if accidentally stuck with a needle used on an...
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Loss Of Appetite Nausea Vomiting
1,628 wordsTHE PRIORITY OF HEPATITIS B VACCINATIONS IN CANADA The increase in the number of children attending schools in Canada and the potential for transmission of viral infection in that environment is a problem of great size. A virus is defined as a morbid principle, or a poisonous venom, especially one capable of being introduced into another person or animal in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Due to their miniscule size, it was not until 1885 that Adolf Mayer observed their existence in the m...
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Types Of Cancer Nausea Vomiting
957 wordsDuring a shower one-day, you notice a lump that was not otherwise there. The next day you see a doctor. The lump you have identified is diagnosed as cancer. Now you need to figure out what to do. There is no absolute cure for cancer, but there are different ways to treat it. Doctors use according methods like radiation, chemotherapy or drugs to treat various types of cancer. Another way of treating cancer is with alternative forms of medicine by using acupuncture and natural herbal remedies. The...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Marijuana As Medicine
1,680 wordsIn society today, many people look for a feeling of freedom, Many people go on vacation and spend money. The most common gateway for people is drug. Our American society is facing a tremendous drug problem. In order to eradicate the drug problem, a public debate is going on to find some solutions to this drug dilemma. It has been highly controversial issue whether drugs such as marijuana should be legalized or not. Some people advocate this issue and believe that legalization is the only solutio...
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Open Ended Questions American Medical Association
3,833 wordsRELAXATION IN CANCER Introduction Cancer is encroaching upon heart diseases status as the number one killer of Americans. Nearly one million people are diagnosed each year with some type of cancer (Heimlich, 1990) and will undergo chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or a combination as an adjunct to surgery. Many of these patients report experiencing debilitating side effects to these treatments. Not only can the physical effects from the illness and the treatment be quite intense, the emotional and psy...
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Kill Cancer Cells National Cancer Institute
2,161 wordsCancer of the Thyroid Statistics Cancer of the thyroid may be one of the less frequently occurring forms of cancer, but it is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system. Each year, more than 1, 100 Americans are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and most of them can expect to live a normal life span (Health Conn. html). The overall incidence of being diagnosed with thyroid cancer is about 1 out of every 1, 000 people (Health Answers. html). As with other thyroid conditions, more than twice a...
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