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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...

Post Colon Rectal Surgery and Early Feeding

following review will demonstrate, there are very positive effects for patients who have elective colon rectal surgeries who are f...

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...

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 ...

Colon Cancer Overview

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

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 ...

Colon Cancer Overview

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Prostate Cancer/PSA screening

an increase in the early detection of cancer, as well as detection of a "migration to lower-stage and -volume tumors," it remains ...

Thin and Standard Preparatory Pap Smear Screening Tool Assessment

Pap smear testing is at age eighteen, however, some within the medical community believe it is not necessary to institute a yearly...

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, ...

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...

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...

Colorectal Cancer Understanding the Risk Factors and the Importance of Early Screening

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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 ...

DSM IV Disorders and the PDSQ

ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...

Positive and Negative Health Screening

This 5 page paper gives an overview of disease screening. This paper gives various examples of disease screening, some positive an...

Delirium, Early Detection Assessment

This research paper presents an overview of instruments designed for screening delirium, and then discusses the implementation of ...

Preschool Vision Screening Justification

a drivers license that the only problem is that they cannot see properly. Slides 3 and 4 How Can Vision Affect the Ability to Lea...

Public Health Nursing and Screening Processes

In two pages this review of a journal article details research on such screening procedures and discusses why early screening and ...