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Clinical Trials Information For Patients
1,232 wordsClinical 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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Cell Lung Cancer Second Hand Smoke
1,755 wordsIn this report I am going to tell you some of the irreversible health effects of smoking and why some people start smoking. Some of the health effects caused by smoking are non-small cell and small cell lung cancer. An irreversible health effect is a permanent change in the structure and / or function of an organ system or a permanently increased risk of suffering from a disease or some other threat to health. Irreversible effects vary in intensity and are related both to the amount and duration...
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Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
793 wordsIn 1990, a three-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, girl named Ashanti De Silva made history when doctors infused her with genes to produce an infection-fighting enzyme called ADA that she lacked. A decade later, the ashes of Jesse Gelsinger were scattered on an Arizona mountaintop after the 18 -year-old died of respiratory distress -- essentially, his lungs shut down -- after getting a massive dose of a modified cold virus intended to carry a gene to his cells. Somewhere in between, the promise of gene ...
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Running Head Immunotherapy For Alzheimer Disease
2,467 wordsRunning head: IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease August 03, 2009 Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease Introduction The ability of vaccine strategies to provide effective treatment for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease is still not examined appropriately. Both passive and active immunotherapy strategies have proven effective reduction of Alzheimer's Disease-like pathologies and restoration of cognitive deficits in transgenic mice. Yet, d...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
2,409 wordsThere are at least two million children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the United States. All around us, ADHD causes clever children and adults to under function at school or work. ADHD needs to be taken seriously. People need to be aware of what ADHD is, what some of the characteristics and symptoms are, what some of the probable causes are, and some ways it can be treated ADHD is one of the most common childhood behaviors. The prognosis for ADHD can be ...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
2,220 wordsAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Disorders became a topic no what many debates have been carried out during the last 20 years. Attention Deficit Disorder is a mostly used term for the various types of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders. The Diagnostic and Statistical manual of the American Psychiatric Association provides the readers with the definition: ADHD is a disorder that can include a list of nine specific symptoms of inattention and nine symptoms of hyper...
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Cause Harm Clinical Trial
746 wordsWhen giving thought of doing a clinical trial of a new drug on any child many questions first need to be asked. Will this drug truly help the patient enough were the damage done will be out weighed by the prospects of the new drug? Also what kind of harm will really happen to the patients put on this drug? And knowing that there maybe a potential for harm to these patients should you take them off of their current treatment, causing harm to them, to give them a placebo? Many of these questions c...
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Cell Lung Cancer Small Cell Lung
3,371 wordsLung cancer is not just one disease but rather a group of diseases. All forms of cancer cause cells in the body to change and grow out of control. Most types of cancer cells form a lump or mass called a tumor. Cells from the tumor can break away and travel to other parts of the body where they can continue to grow. This spreading process is called metastasis. When cancer spreads, it is still named after the part of the body where it started. For example, if breast cancer spreads to the lungs, it...
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