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Breast Cancer Treatment Choices

In a paper consisting of eleven pages breast cancer in the U.S. is considered with the primary focus being types of medical treatm...

H.R. 1723/ S. 830 Breast Cancer And Environmental Research Act Of 2001

Another breast cancer patient is diagnosed every 2 minutes and one woman dies from this disease every 13 minutes (The Orator, 2001...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Cervical or Breast Cancer and the High Incidences in African American Women

National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer, Behavior, Attitudes, and Knowledge

detected are already in the later incurable stages (Jones, 1999). There are many arguments regarding issues such the ethical res...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

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

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...

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 ...

Evaluation of an Article on Nutrition

five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables should be part of a daily diet. it is believed that the chemicals found in fruit...

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...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Article Critique/Cancer Patient Distress

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

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...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Sexual Health Maintenance

In 8 pages this paper discusses how to maintain sexual health in contemporary society in a consideration of cancer, sexually trans...

Rural Southwest Queensland Australia and Developing a Breast Cancer Screening Program

2002). Finally, the paper notes that there should be an adequate screening test that is "capable of detecting the susceptibility, ...

Choosing a Healthcare Intervention

have a side effect. For example, if this is occurring in an area where there is fluoride being added, and the process will strip t...

Preventing Cancer with Good Nutrition

one of the more frightening diseases threatening mankind. Cancer can impact any area of our body. Sometimes cancer is sex specif...

African American Women, Environmental Impacts, and Breast Cancer

In five pages environmental factors such as carcinogens exposure are discussed as they relate to the high breast cancer mortality ...

A Review of the Film, My Life

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the film, My Life, which stars Michael Keaton as a young man facing death from cancer. T...

Pros and Cons of Chemotherapy for Cancer Patients

In ten pages an evaluation of cancer patients using chemotherapy treatment is presented through a consideration of its recovery ad...

Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Treatment of Breast Cancer

In a paper consisting of ten pages the arguments surrounding adjuvant therapies and lumpectomies over radical or partial mastectom...

Economic Aspects of Lung Cancer

In six pages lung cancer is examined in terms of treatment, recent developments, and prevention with the emphasis upon the disease...

Human Body and the Impact of Smoking

But in recent years, it has also been noted that while nicotine is introduced into the blood stream, other chemicals also bombard ...

Cigarette Smoking, Lung Cancer, and the Role Played by Polonium 210

In five pages this paper discusses lung tissue and the role played by polonium 210 in the development of lung cancer caused by tob...

Cancer and Vitamins

the cancer-fighting benefits of dietary vitamin supplementation. Studies have shown that such vitamins as C, E and beta carotene ...

Modern Diet as the Cause of Degenerative Diseases

In twelve pages the Western or American diet and the problems it causes as related to degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis, ...