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Clinical Trials Information For Patients
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Clinical Trials Information for Patients In cancer
research, a clinical trial is an organized study
conducted in people with cancer to answer specific
questions about a new treatment or a new way of
using a known treatment. Each study tries to
increase medical knowledge and to find new and
better ways to help cancer patients. Besides
studying new anticancer drugs, clinical trials
study new combinations of drugs already used in
cancer treatment, new ways of giving treatment,
and how changes in li...
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Academy Of Sciences Marie Curie
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... off immense radiation. Radium is extremely
powerful and, unless used with care and in a
controlled environment, very dangerous.
Unfortunately, this was not known in the days of
the Curies. While working with radioactive
materials, both Pierre and Marie suffered from
many illnesses and pains. They encountered aching
arms and legs, sores, colds and blisters that
never seemed to go away. They often pinned these
problems to their lack of rest due to being in the
laboratory. Only later did the tw...
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Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
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The effects of the atomic bomb were terrible.
Theres no doubt in my mind that the atomic bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a costly
mistake. Atomic bombs produce heat millions of
degrees high, and visible ultraviolet and inferred
rays. (Lapp 844) Everyone and everything exposed
to their blast is affected. No one is left
untouched, whether it be emotional or physical; in
many cases both. However, many members of the
science community argue that the atomic bomb was a
great advance in te...
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Shroud Of Turin Jesus Christ
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... earch now questions the validity of those
tests. No other artifact has received as much
scientific focus as the Shroud and yet it remains
a mystery. Some believe it to be a medieval hoax,
yet the Shroud image and all of its uniqueness
cannot be duplicated by any known physical
process. Although carbon dated to the Middle Ages
it seems even more incredible that someone from
that era could have artificially produced this
remarkable image which has defied a scientific
solution. Public interest ...
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Benign Tumors Dna Strands
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Cancer is a major killer of people all around the
globe. We do not have a definite cure, but the
amount of research done on this one disease costs
on the average of $ 1. 2 billion dollars annually,
and $ 20 billion annually in care of cancer
patients. What is Cancer? Cancer is a broad
ranging term that is used by many people,
including medical professionals such as doctors.
Cancer, in its most fatal and aggressive form, is
of a larger class of diseases known as neoplasms.
There are two forms of ...
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Parts Of The Body Prostate Cancer
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Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate gland.
The prostate is part of the male reproductive
system. This gland is locates inside the body at
the base of the penis, just below the bladder and
in front of the rectum. It is composed of the
glandular and fibrous tissue enclosed in a capsule
of connective tissue. The prostate is in the shape
of a donut and about the size of a walnut. It
surrounds the first inch or so of the urethra, the
tube that carries urine from the bladder. Normal
functions of...
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Nuclear Arms Race World War Ii
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Dr. Strangelove vs. WWII The truth is bad enough -
but nowhere near as bad as you probably think. The
truth will do away with a lot of silly ideas, a
lot of completely wrong notions, which millions of
people now believe about the atomic bomb. These
ideas could easily cause great panic. And right
now the possibility of panic is one of the best
weapons any enemy could use against us. "
(Gerstell, How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, p. 1)
The World War II has taken lives of millions of
people. It produc...
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Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste
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Yucca Mountain nuclear waste The controversy,
surrounding the issue of proposed nuclear waste
depository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada has been
around since the time when in 1978 U. S.
Department of Energy (DEO) started to look for the
suitable location to have such depository at. At
present time, the deadly waste is stored at 131
different sites throughout the USA, making it ever
harder to insure that safety standards are being
maintained at every particular location. On July
23, 2002 President Bus...
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History Of Time Space And Time
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... Royal Society, Britains most prestigious
scientific body, founded in 1660. Having just
turned thirty-two years old, he was one of the
youngest scientists to receive this honor
(Hewitt). If black holes were slowly turning their
mass into radiation, might a black hole eventually
evaporate into space? Hawking published a paper
entitled Black Hole Explosions? . The paper looked
at this possibility. Hawking believed that the
ordinary kind of black hole, made from a massive
star, pulled in matter ...
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Parts Of The Body Brain Tumors
665 words
The body normally forms new cells only when they
are needed to replace old or damaged ones. If
something happens to disturb this controlled
process, abnormal or excessive cells are produced.
When this occurs a tumor is developed. This is
known as cancer. When a tumor is developed on the
brain, it is called a brain tumor or brain cancer.
Brain tumors can be benign or malignant (benign
being not cancerous and malignant being
cancerous). Both types can be deadly when dealing
with the brain. Benign ...
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Greenhouse Gases Ultraviolet Radiation
421 words
Discovery of the hole in the ozone layer showed
that human activity has a major impact on Earth.
The destruction of ozone in the stratosphere high
above the planets surface has been brought about
as the result of the widespread use of chemicals,
which under normal conditions are chemically inert
and harmless. Ozone occurs at all levels in the
atmosphere, but most of it is found in the
stratosphere, between about 15 - 50 kilometres
above the Earths surface. Even there it occurs in
minute concentr...
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Ozone Molecules Du Pont
579 words
The beginning of the CFC (chlorofluorocarbons) era
started in 1928, when CFC were invented by a Du
Pont chemist. CFC were best known as freon's and
became famous as a safe, nonflammable refrigerant.
It s invention became a great triumph when Freon
took the place of sulfur dioxide or ammonia which
was used as the working liquid in refrigerators.
It eventually became widely used in automobile air
conditioners and nontoxic propellants in aerosol
cans. It s insulating properties also was used for
bl...
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Nuclear Fusion Level Waste
257 words
Low-level Waste facility Nuclear Fusion, a process
in which two light nuclei combine to form a single
heavier nucleus. An example of this is the
sunray's they are the simplest form of nuclear
fusion. The use for this is fusion is used as a
fuel. But the risks are radiation poising which is
very deadly. Nuclear fission, a reverse process of
fusion. So it? s a process in which a heavy
nucleus splits in to two smaller nuclei. The
simplest form is particles going into are
atmosphere from space. We u...
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Years Skin Department
252 words
The year is 2018. A Mars colony has been firmly
established. Earth has become a virtual earth with
virtual cities, operators, and cars proliferating
everywhere. The introduction of the Eurodollar and
many regional trade agreements have temporarily
pacified a once turbulent political world. The
ozone layer has been depleted immensely resulting
in an urgent demand for bioengineer's. Here, I
come in. I am the people? s director at a leading
firm in the bioengineering industry. My firm
consists of t...
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Cystic Fibrosis Recombinant Dna
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Cancer is diagnosed in almost 1. 5 million people
in the United States annually. Approximately
one-half million Americans die of cancer annually,
making it the second leading cause of death in the
U. S. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited, fatal
disease occurring once in every 2, 500 Caucasian
births and once in every 17, 000 African American
births. Genetic research has failed, so far, to
solve many genetic-based cancers, but it has
identified the gene and its location (on
chromosome 7) responsible...
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Reduce The Amount Ozone Layer
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Ozone derives from the greek word open which means
to smell. It was first discovered in 1839 by
Christian Friedrich Schonbein who noticed it
because of its distinctive acrid smell. He
discovered this at the University of Basel in
Switzerland. Ozone is merely oxygen, but not the
type we breath. Ozone, O 3 has three compounds
while oxygen has only two. Ozone is reac- tive,
meaning it does not stay still, and wants to go
back to its original state, with two compounds, O
2. This is why ozone is harm...
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Source Of Energy Earths Surface
683 words
All life on Earth depends on energy from the sun.
Solar energy is the source of energy for
photosynthesis. It provides the warmth necessary
for plants and animals to survive. The heat from
the sun causes water on the Earths surface to
evaporate and form clouds that eventually provide
fresh rainwater. Solar energy is the result of
thermonuclear fusion reactions deep within the
sun. These reactions produce so much energy that
they keep the surface temperature of the sun at
about 10, 300 B 0 F. Eve...
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Solid State Lasers Funk And Wagnalls
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people see Lasers When most people see a laser
beam they are amazed by its unique physical
properties. Laser light is so unique from other
light because it is coherent; unlike ordinary
light, which travels in all directions, laser
light travels in a straight beam. The word laser
is an acronym for Light Amplification by
Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The history of
the laser is very interesting. Lasers have changed
immensely since they were first invented. Before
the laser was invented, Charle...
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Protect Against Sunburn Skin Cancer Cells
594 words
Cancer is a word used to describe a group of
diseases. Each has its own name, its own
treatment, and its own chances of being cured.
Each is different from the others in many ways,
but every cancer, whatever its called or whatever
part of the body it is located in, is a disease of
the body's cells. Skin cancer is the most
prevalent of all cancers, and its increasingly
common. About a million Americans will develop
skin cancer in a year. It is a disease in which
cancer cells are found in the oute...
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Ozone Layer Ultraviolet Rays
1,260 words
Atmospheric ozone layer depletion is a serious
problem currently facing the world. The ozone
layer protects humans, animals, and plants from
harmful ultraviolet rays. Money and time are being
spent on ozone repair, but the problem still
exists. The ozone layer is a region of the
stratosphere containing ozone, or O 3 gas. The
ozone layer is essential to both plant and animal
life on earth because it protects the surface from
dangerous ultraviolet light. However, industrial
and domestic chemicals ...
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