American Cancer Society

In 2014, there was an estimated 1,665,540 new cancer cases diagnosed and 585,720 cancer deaths in the United States. Cancer remains the second most common cause of death in the United States, accounting for nearly 1 of every 4 deaths (American Cancer Society). Today, statistics show that 1 in every 3 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer sometime during their life (American Cancer Society). As cancer is becoming a more prevalent problem in society, there is an exceptional need for a solution.…

According to the American Cancer Society, “About half of all men and one-third of all women in the US will develop cancer during their lifetimes.” Though cancer has been a prevalent issue throughout history, it has continued to manifest and remains a one of the top ten causes of death in the United States. It’s hard to walk into a room full of people and find someone who doesn’t at least know someone who has or has had cancer. Cancer itself is very well-known, but a cure for cancer remains…

(FRMC) with a left iliac wing fracture related to metastatic cancer earlier that month. The primary location of the cancer was determined to be the distal esophagus after an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and cell biopsy was completed. He then presented to FRMC in January 2016 with post-prandial nausea, vomiting, and anorexia related to chemotherapy treatments. Although his past medical history was negative for other forms of cancer or nutritional-related diseases, his risk of developing the…

discussed in this report is its medical uses in treating cancer. The treatment is called radiation therapy or radiotherapy (National Cancer Institute 2010). More than half of all cancer patients get radiotherapy as part of their treatment (American Cancer Society 2014). It is often used alongside chemotherapy (D Hermann n.d.). The purpose of radiation therapy is to cure or control the cancer or to relieve symptoms if cure is not possible (Cancer Council Australia 2015). Radiotherapy is usually…

Furthermore, cancer treatments have grown and there are more and more different types of treatments being created for helping eliminate cancer every day. When doctors first diagnose a patient with cancer, their first task is to determine what stage the cancer is in and where it is located. “Cancer is best treated in the early stages. This helps with the doctors knowing the possibility of the cancer spreading to be less likely (American Cancer Society, 2014, p. 2). People are scared of the…

Cancer was not used as a casual medical term in the 1990s, with only one in five individuals contracting cancer. Unfortunately, that number has increased in the last few years to one in three, with reports predicting that number will increase to one in two individuals contracting cancer by 2020 (Faguet, 2005). The rate by which this deadly disease has grown in the past seventy years is astonishing, but what are the causes behind this raging epidemic? The most immediate causes relate to diet,…

*Since male breast cancer has different stages that a man can be diagnosed with that also means that there are different treatments for each diagnosis. The first step that a man would take is have a biopsy done, this is usually a common procedure that a doctor will do to get the information that they need to make a diagnosis. Along with the biopsy there are other surgeries that may be necessary. Chemotherapy is another treatment that is common for a man to do with breast cancer, but it may not…

Multiple myeloma is a rare cancer, but if developed it is extremely hard to fight. It is the second most common blood cancer in adults, but in 2015 only 2% of cancer cases were multiple myeloma. The first documented case of multiple myeloma was in 1844. There have been hundreds of thousands of cases since then and there are constant improvements being made on treatments for this currently incurable cancer. Stem cell transplants have become a standard treatment for multiple myeloma patients, but…

Cancer is described as uncontrolled growth of the abnormal body cells. Cancer associated with altered expression of cellular genes which its normal function is to regulate proliferation and differentiation of cell. Cancer is the second major cause of death for both men and women in the United States (Copstead & Banasik, 2013). According to National Cancer Institute (2014), there are over one hundred types of cancer existing. Types of cancers are named for the organ or type of cell in which its…

Definition Breast cancer is an uncontrollable production of breast cells (Julian, 2015). The two main types of breast cancer are invasive and non-invasive breast cancer (Julian, 2015). Non-invasive meaning cancerous cells reside in a certain region of the breast, while invasive refers to the potential of cells advancing to other body parts via bloodstream or lymph nodes (Julian, 2015). Patient Centered-Care of Patient with Breast Cancer Description and Background of Topic Breast cancer has…