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About Cancer of the Colon

a parent has FAP or HNPCC, his or her children run a 50 percent risk of inheriting the mutated gene" ("Colon Cancer"). Inheriting ...

Overview of Colon Cancer

The second most commonly diagnosed cancer in America is colon cancer and in five pages this paper presents an overview in terms of...

Colon Cancer Overview

by the erroneous function of the genes which are responsible for putting right mistakes when DNA replicates itself (Medical Post, ...

Colon Cancer Overview

with Lynch syndrome I (colonic tumors) and II (colonic and additional tumors such as endometrial, ovarian or breast. According to...

Screening for Colon and Rectal Cancer

100,000 population (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1997). Survival rate is dependent upon the stage of the disease w...

Diet and Cancer

between certain types of food and cancers (Emery, 1999). In exploring dietary recommendations for people with cancer of the colon...

Causes and Effects of Cancer

In five pages the causes of lung, breast, and colon cancer are examined along with their effects. Three sources are cited in the ...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...

Breast Cancer Risk

order to come to an uninformed answer to the research questions. Statistical analysis was not undertaken due to the inconsistenc...

About Breast Cancer

"uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably ...

Research on Ovarian Cancer

is an article that illustrates perhaps how little the medical community really knows about the condition. In trying to understan...

Personal Essay: A Significant Life Event

he was so sick. The first I knew about it was a call from my Mom. She didnt give me any details over the phone, just said Dad was ...

Medical Imaging

(Medical imaging in cancer care, 2006). Medical imagine detects cancer early when it is "at its most curable stage-and, in many ...

Cancer Care: An Economic Analysis

is an important part of healthcare that is focused on the economic principles of the industry. This branch of economics is used by...

Symptoms and Possible Treatment of Uterine Cancer

This 5 page paper provides an overview of uterine cancer and what symptoms and signs might be present. This paper includes how sym...

American Cancer Society and Cancer Services

This research paper describes characteristics pertaining to cancer services and information offered by the American Cancer Society...

Overview of Breast Cancer

This research paper presents an overview of several different issues that apply to breast cancer. Topics surveyed include discussi...

Cancer Issues Overview

This research paper/essay pertain to different issues associated with cancer treatment, which include immune surveillance model of...

Cancer Survival, Role of Attitude, Optimism

This research paper offers an overview description of "Aunt Phyllis," a breast cancer survivor who is experiencing emotional diffi...

"Cancer Alley" and Environmental Justice

This paper describes the case made against Shell Oil Company by the residents of "Cancer Alley," a stretch of the Mississippi with...

Ovarian Cancer Concerns

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of ovarian cancer and it's causes. This paper includes factors that contribute to getting...

Preventing Cancer with Green Tea

This research report takes a look at a variety of literature on the subject. Prostate and breast cancer are the diseases given the...

Current Literature Overview on Breast Cancer

In a paper consisting of twelve pages breast cancer issues are examined in terms of relevant current literature coverage of the di...

Statistics on Prostate Cancer in the United States

flows out of the bladder and into the urethra. It does this by the effect of muscle fibers in the prostate that surround the uret...

Cancer Chemopreventative Agents and Their Effects

In five pages the article by Wendy Smith, Jamal Arif, and R. Gupta entitled 'Effects of cancer chemopreventative agents on microso...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

percent, while rates among black women increase 1 percent, says the National Cancer Institute). Although White women are more li...

Cancer's Physical, Emotional, and Economic Costs

up on trying to live longer. What cancer does also is to awaken philosophical questions in all patients and their families. They a...

Cancer Causes

been made with diet, and then there have been unsubstantiated claims by women who live on Long Island, New York-where there are an...

Tamoxifen Study and Prevention of Breast Cancer

ductal or lobular carcinoma in situ (35 cases in the tamoxifen group vs. 69 cases in the placebo group). Nine participants have di...