Cancer staging

experience many things with both of them. All I have ever known is that my best friend’s mom had cancer and I didn’t think that much of it. Two years old is way too young to even begin to understand what cancer is and how that can change someone’s life. So for thirteen years my best friend and I grew up knowing that Mrs. Kim had cancer. January of 2003 the doctors diagnosed Mrs. Kim with breast cancer. Obviously I was too young to understand this, but what I do…

“Grandma Cooper has cancer.” My heart dropped to my stomach, my eyes stung with tears, my lungs stopped working, and everything hurt. Cancer is a word that causes great fear, sadness, worry, dread, and many more terrible emotions. For me, I have heard the word since before I knew what the real fear of it was. I do not think I truly understood the sadness that the word could invoke when I was younger, I never understood until I was old enough to know that I could lose someone I was very close to…

analogue, is a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent (antimetabolite) of the pyrimidine analogue family. It is a basic cytostatic agent used in therapy of solid gastrointestinal cancers (as adjuvant therapy as well as in treatment of metastatic disease); besides, it is also widely used in therapy of metastatic breast cancer. Myocardial infarction is a rare adverse effect related to capecitabine therapy. We present case report of a female patient with no history of cardiovascular disease who…

judgments that are associated with a character’s diagnosis. The movie adaptation of John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars follows the love story of two teens, Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters, who are both diagnosed with cancer. Expected illness behavior related to childhood cancer is represented in the interactions that others have with the main character, Hazel. The concept of illness behavior explains how people interact when confronted with an illness. One aspect of illness behavior…

selective 3rd generation nonsteroidal aromatase Inhibitor [1]. Anastrozole is indicated in treatment of early and advanced breast cancer in post-menopausal women, adjuvant therapy of hormone receptor positive breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer and tenderness of pubertal gynecomastia [2,4,5]. The main type of breast cancer is hormone receptor positive breast cancer, which is caused by an increase of oestrogen levels in the body [3] this is because oestrogen causes an increase in tumour…

ON CHEMOPROTECTIVE EFFICACY OF RESVERATROL IN BREAST CANCER 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 BREAST CANCER: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and it is one of the leading causes of cancer death in women worldwide. Diet and Nutrition play a key role in carcinogenesis process, as reflected in the global differences in breast cancer incidence worldwide. High fat content, meat and low fiber diets were associated with high breast cancer incidence rates whereas populations with plant-based…

its precancerous stage. The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of Pap test as initial screening test and confirm the diagnosis followed by gold standard histopathological evaluation in order to reveal the incidence of cervical cancer. Then the tissue positive for dysplastic changes are subjected to IHC studies for HPV screening. Two thousand two hundred and thirty four cases…

the most vital decisions and ethical argumentative issue especially in case of Pregnancy-associated breast cancer which is the most common solid tumor in pregnancy, it develops during pregnancy period or within 1 year after pregnancy, and presents both diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. (Beadle, Wendy,Woodward, Lavinia, Middleton,Tereffe, et al., 2009). Approximately 0.2-3.8% of breast cancers in women under the age of 50 are diagnosed during pregnancy this number increases to10-20% in women…

The most effective way of early detection of breast cancer is by simply getting a mammogram, which is an x-ray picture of the breast. The recommended age to start getting them once a year is 50, but it is never too early to start. Mammograms have been shown to detect cancer up to two years before the tumor can be felt in the breast (Cancer Care). Other ways to detect breast cancer early on is by receiving clinical breast exams as well as self-breast exams. Women are given a clinical breast exam…

The term neoplasm refers to tumors that are masses or growths that arise from normal tissue. Can a growth occur at any time in life? Are all neoplasms life-threatening? Explain in your own words why or why not. The term neoplasm refers to an abnormal growth of tissue caused by the quick division of cells that have undergone some form of change. The body is made up of trillions of cells that grow, divide, and die in an orderly fashion. This process is a strongly controlled one that is controlled…