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Risk and Hypertension, Pancreatic Cancer

and total energy intake"), the researchers determined that lycopene, which was provided primarily from tomatoes, could be associat...

Lance Armstrong Leader and Cancer Survivor

is called "drafting" (Harkins and Hollihan, 2009). When the cyclist in front becomes exhausted from the effort, he goes to the bac...

Smoking and its Impacts to Human Health

hazard and choosing to smoke is the risk factor. Being exposed to secondhand smoke is a risk factor as well. Just because tobac...

The Life and Contributions of Walter Payton

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

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 ...

Nurse's Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Examination of Breast Cancer

& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...

Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Management

to the health care system, or that everyone should be screened just in case, but rather, that the testing can be uncomfortable, an...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...

Screenings for Colorectal Cancer and Ethics

application of diagnostic tests or procedures to asymptomatic people for the benefit of dividing them into two groups: those who h...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Dying and the 'Execution' of Death

concerning their death. In the case of individuals diagnosed with cancer who have gone through all the treatments possible and kno...

Cancer Treatment Facility Business Plan

treatments in a modern, caring and supportive environment" This lays down the aim of the company, to set up a facility which will...

Article Overview of 'Rotating Night Shifts and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Participating in the Nurses' Health Study'

in general, and the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal American women. Sampling Procedures The sampling...

Breast Cancer and Mammogram Screening

dense or fatty breasts. Poplack, et al. (2000) provide definitions that can be applied to the more general patient. "Screening i...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

Bone Cancer Case Study and Nursing Interventions

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...

Three Cancer Diagnostic Tests

surface of the cervix to obtain a sample of cells from it (Bissinger, 2002). The examiner then transfers the collected cell...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Pilot Study on Cancer Diagnosis and Minorities

suggests that there is a level of stigmatization and fear that is prevalent in minority communities that reduces the chances that ...

Breast Cancer Research Article and Critique of Qualitative Research

prevent women from participating. The purpose of this study is to determine whether African American womens perceptions of BSE, P...

Human Health and Impact of the Environment

et. al. (2000), for example, reemphasizes the importance of links made in the 1970s between male infertility and exposure to pesti...

Research Results on Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer

Research Report, 2002). Figure 1; Respondents Age Group Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Age...

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner

with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any event, things were mi...

Gilda Radner's Ovarian Cancer and the Role of Medical Care

of sorts. The problem with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any...

Oncology and Coping with an Annotated Bibliography

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

An Article on Cancer Patients' Psychological Interventions Examined

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

Past and Present Treatment for Cancer

the first cancer-causing gene--an oncogene--which is shown to plan a role in human bladder cancer; more than 50 oncogenes have bee...