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Research on Ovarian Cancer

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

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...

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 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...

Cancer and Air Pollution

problems including "runny and stuffy noses, sinusitis, sore throats, wet coughs, head colds, burning eyes, wheezing, dry coughs, p...

Connection Between Cancer and Diet

were pasta, white bread and rice (2002). Researchers have suspected that women who eat a lot of refined carbohydrates do not get e...

Brain Cancer and Cell Phone Usage Connection

of the Long Island women blame the electrical power lines strung high above their homes, there has been no proof of a link between...

Cell Phone Industry and Government Regulations

the government do, however, if definitive research is completed that irrefutably identifies cell phones as a causative agent in th...

Diet and Cancer

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cancer and Proto Oncogenes

specific tumor viruses. According to Lander (2001), more than half of all human tumors are associated with defects in the p53 g...

How Breast Cancer Effects Women

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the psychological effects of breast cancer on women. This paper includes effects before and...

PET Scanning For Staging And Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

the gastrointestinal system. Patients with no metastasis are more readily afforded the standard five-year survival rate compared ...

Gardasil Vaccine/The Debate

young girls to become promiscuous (Gulli, 2006). These groups emphasize that abstinence is the best protection against sexually tr...

Carcinoma of the Breast

harming healthy cells, which is a negative side effect of both radiation and chemotherapy (Meisheid, 2005). In 2003, the American...

Issues Involving Breast Cancer

In a report that contains five pages issues and factors involving breast cancer are presented in an informational overview that co...

Group Therapy, Family Options, and Breast Cancer

In seventy five pages this research paper provides a comprehensive overview of current literature relating to mental health with r...

Etiology of Lung Cancer

has steadily correlated with the increasing incidence of lung cancer. Back at the turn of the century, when cigarette smoking was...

Report on Breast Cancer

American Cancer Society and other information groups are actively encouraging woman of all ages to learn everything they can about...

Overview of Epstein Barr Virus

In seven pages Epstein Barr Virus is examined in an overview that discusses how it is associated with such physiological maladies ...

Treatment and Cancer

In six pages this paper presents a cancer overview and various types of treatment with the emphasis on leukemia and lung sarcoma a...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Overview of Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma affects mainly the men who worked in construction trades including shipbuilding, where asbestos was most often used. ...

Deadly Skin Cancer Form Malignant Melanoma

of UV radiation than where the ozone layer is intact. Even where there are no particular problems with overhead ozone, peop...

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,...