Breast cancer

contralateral breast cancer in the future based on her significant family history as well as being diagnosed with breast cancer before turning 40 years old. She has opted for bilateral skin sparing mastectomies with immediate implant reconstruction. This part of the paper will discuss the pros and cons of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) and contributing factors to increased rate of prophylactic contralateral mastectomy. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a pre-invasive breast…

Breast screening can be emotionally stressful experience for the patient. In the past decade, there has been many changes in devices used to examine and detect breast cancer in women. The purpose of these screening devices were to decreasing mortality rate in breast cancer and perform the screening within optimal time and comfort for the patient. Breast cancer is currently the leading cause of death after skin cancer in women. Women over the age of 40 are highly encouraged to have a yearly…

Breast cancer has been a prominent and vicious disease plaguing humanity, consuming the lives of countless women. Throughout the years medical advances have only resulted in a healthier human population, and made significant progress advancing toward a cure for this seemingly difficult disease. Many studies have surfaced with the use of Beta Carotene as a viable method to combat many cancer types, more specifically, breast cancer. Beta Carotene is a carotenoid found in many fruits and vegetables…

into her. She shattered when she saw the stands of charcoal black hair that were woven into the hairbrush. Radiation therapy uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors (“American Cancer Association”). One of the women I met at the walkathon had radiation therapy. They go through a machine that kills the cancer cells using radiation. Radiation therapy doesn’t only kill cancerous cells through. The woman that I met at the walkathon said that radiation therapy can impact…

Description BRCA genetic mutations put women at higher risk for breast and ovarian cancers. Our Round Rock obgyns explain more about BRCA testing. Meta Title (70 cap) BRCA Testing - Who Benefits From Testing - What To Expect Comments Live Date (AMY) URL (AMY) BRCA Testing BRCA testing is an important tool in the fight against breast cancer BRCA testing is designed to find mutations in two important genes that suppress cancer - the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. When BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are…

The increased familial prevalence of breast cancer may be indicative of a gene that is passed down through generations. Two genes that researcher have linked to increased risk are the BRCA1 and CHEK2 genes (Breast Cancer). These genes are typically passed downed from parent to child and in cases that cancer does develop it is referred to as inherited cancer (Breast Cancer). Hormones have been show to play a large role in the risk and development of cancer. The use of hormone therapy has the…

This paper accompanies the pamphlet on breast self-examination (BSE). BSEs are significant for early detection of breast cancer. BSEs are recommended for all adult women, therefore, targeting a broad population from young adult women to elderly women. The pamphlet is adapted to provide health promotion education to the target population. The pamphlet uses various resources to ensure current evidenced-base practice is being taught to the clients. This paper will discuss the techniques…

A cancer diagnosis isan increasingly common event and affects nearly everyone, whether directly or indirectly. The prognosis and treatment process is not the same for any two individuals. That being said, breast cancer patients are often throwninto a culture of identifying as a “fighter”or a “warrior”duringtheir treatment and are deemed “survivors”once in remission. While this may provide a sense of community for many people,I think there are negative consequences to thisbreast cancer culture.…

Abstract: In this paper, we have developed a shape feature extraction of MRI brain tumor image retrieval. We used T1 weighted image of MRI brain tumor images. There are two modules: feature extraction process and classification. First, the shape features are extracted using techniques like Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), Harris corner detection and Zernike moments. Second, the supervised learning algorithms like Deep neural network (DNN) and Extreme learning machine (ELM) are used to…

1. INTRODUCTION Over 90,000 people suffer from nervous system injuries every year (Stabenfeldt, García & Laplaca, 2006) while spinal cord injury alone affects 10,000 people each year (Prang et al., 2006). The new invention, NeuRobot, a kind of nanorobot which is defined as a controllable machine at the nanometer scale that are composed of nano-scale components and algorithmically respond to input forces and information, is believed to bring the nanotechnology to the next level and be the answer…