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0703 Instituto Mário Penna: Don`t count on luck Mario Penna Insitute is a humanitarian institution founded in 1971 at Brazil. It is constructed by two hospitals offering about 400 hospital beds. One of hospital is named Minas Gerais CACONs, which is the largest provider of cancer care in the state, serving abundant complex cancer cases. “Don’t Count on Luck” is the campaign that Instituto Mário Penna holds for increase awareness of breast cancer. The campaign is using series of poster to…

Claims throughout the last hundred years or so that certain supplements or herbal medicines can help reduce the development and spread of cancer are nothing new. Many celebrities have pushed certain products for this reason as well as a healthy profit, this includes Dr.Oz as well. In a recent article posted on the Dr.Oz website, Funk (2016) claims that green tea can play a huge role in cancer prevention and depleting the rate at which numerous cancers spread such as: colon, liver, breast and…

genes Breast cancer affects over 508,000 women worldwide and almost 50-58% of cases result in death. It is the top cancer in women (WHO, 2017, p.2). Scientist Mary-Claire King discovered BRCA1, the gene mutation for causing breast cancer, in 1994. BRCA2 was discovered in 1995 (Park, 2014). Testing options have previously been limited due to gene patenting. A patient carrying BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 can reduce the risk of contracting the disease by opting to remove breast tissue and ovaries (Grady,…

In Wit , a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, the audience witnesses Vivian Bearing’s journey, and hopeless battle with ovarian cancer. Edson uses a soliloquy as a tone used to reveal the feelings and emotional state of Vivian. She uses the soliloquy to give Vivian a chance to express how she is feeling and what she is thinking in every part of the play. By using the soliloquy, Edson manages to cite sympathy, rather than pity, in the audience by showing the constant struggle that…

Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest disease that hits you as a surprise. This cancer has affected me as upcoming nurse and a student by being assigned to a patient who was suffering from ovarian cancer along with depression and anxiety due to the disease. The reason why I chose this article mainly is because ovarian cancer took a piece of my patient’s life away by leading it to spend the remaining of her life dealing with the disease, being away from her family and being alone in the hospital…

Wit by Margaret Edson is a play about Dr. Vivian Bearing succumbing to advanced metastatic ovarian cancer. Edson herself has said that this is a play about grace. This theme is evident in Vivian’s gradual transition from graceless intellectual to gracious cancer patient; a transition which is accompanied by her finally understanding life and death from a human perspective, rather than a scholarly one. Edson uses literary foils and mirrors, the evolution of Dr. Bearing’s character, Vivian’s…

“ Does someone actually think I would kill my daughter because she wet the bed?” said Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet Ramsey’s mom. JonBenet Ramsey’s murder in 1996 still shocks the world today. JonBenet Ramsey was born on August 6, 1990, in Atlanta Georgia. The daughter of a fashion designer and a wealthy businessman. Her mom’s name was Patsy Ramsey and her dad’s name is John Bennett. She was the youngest of two children. She had a brother named Burke Ramsey who was born in 1987. In 1991 her and her…

I feel qualified to hold this position because of how influential the big/little aspect of Zeta has been on my life. My family within Zeta is so close from my great grand big down to my little, and each of them have given me a feeling of having a home away from home. I’ve experienced how important getting a big sister can be when you are a freshman trying to find your way and find where you belong at Auburn. I’ve also experienced how important it is to turn around and be that same guiding light…

The late Diem Brown was a magnificent woman who had an energy and grace to her that would only be seen in fairytales. When she was just twenty-four years old, this self proclaimed dancing queen got cast to be on a reality competition show where she fought against other competitors in a series of challenges to claim a grand prize of two-hundred and fifty-thousand dollars. As her first reality TV debut hit, she hid a secret from not only her cast mates, but also from the world. This beautiful…

Even though the BRCA1 gene mutation is a genetic marker that indicates and or can predict cancerous diseases now, however, it may not be a marker in the future that will predict cancerous cells. For example the BRCA1 gene may not be able to detect breast cancer in the future. Breast cancer is a group of cancer cells that start in the cells of a breast. It also is the second leading cause of death among women. There is no one specific cause that you can pinpoint how it developed. Breast cancer…