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Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

Vaccinations Do Not Translate Into Sexual Promiscuity!

population base for which it is intended. Needless to say, the controversy surrounding this vaccination is perplexing or even inf...

Mary Pipher/Another Country

age that are frequently expressed within Western society evolve, at least partially, from the changes in social status that occur ...

Genetic Disorder - Breast Cancer

Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

BREAST CANCER -- MICHIGAN

Wisdom, 2004). Between 1990 and 2000, breast cancers diagnosed earlier (thus leading to a higher survival rate), increase...

Infant Attachment: Theories

Piagets cognitive developmental theory is devised toward all stages of ones development, however, it is particular pertinent to ea...

Risk and Hypertension, Pancreatic Cancer

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

Smoking and Its Impact on the Lungs

its effects on the cellular structure of the respiratory system. It actually burns though the cell walls of the lungs just minute...

The Symptoms of Lung Cancer

The difficulties result from plural effusion, a build up of fluid between the outer lining of the lungs and the chest wall,...

Prostate Cancer

history of prostate cancer should be aware that they have a higher risk of developing this disease. It is unknown why, but Black m...

Behavior Influences on Health

it may not be recognised in all cases. The common symptoms of stress includes, tiredness and fatigue, weight changes for no obviou...

How to Encourage Smokers to Give Up Smoking

be used and then consider how the campaign may take place. 2. The Problem The overall lifetime risk of developing lung cancer ...

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...

IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer

dose of antibiotics, after which time -- when the indications do not disappear -- further testing in the form of biopsy, ultrasoun...

Colon Cancer Overview

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

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...

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 ...

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...

Randy Pausch as an Exemplary Leader

his life. At the end of the infamous lecture, Pausch does say that he believes in karma. He talks about doing things for others an...

Analysis of Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream

Both have been linked to cancer" (p. 6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about ...

Breast Cancer in Women

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

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Postmenopausal Women, Breast Cancer Risk, and Raloxifene

of cancer and that women with high concentrations of estradiol in their blood stream are at the greatest risk of developing breast...

An Exploration of Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans

total nine hundred and two patients were men and the remaining forty-three percent were women (Chen, 2003). DFSP typically develo...

Pathology and Treatment of Liver Cancer

Cancer, 2003). Of course the disease is serious, but it is potentially curable with the surgical intervention not accessible to m...

More Negative Than Positive Effects of Anabolic Steroids

with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...

Emotions Effects on Cancer

system to destroy abnormal cells. Hormone production is directly connected to psychological states. Countless women can attest to ...

Cancer and Homes with Unacceptable Radon Gas Levels

types of rock may have higher concentrations of uranium and may produce higher levels of radon, elevated radon levels can also be ...

Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...