Cancer

WHAT IS BREAST CANCER Breast cancer is a disease in which breast cells growth abnormally .Breast cancer is a malignant tumor of breast tissue suspected by clinical finding like breast lump, breast thickening or skin change .Breast cancer is the microscopic structure of living organisms .A biopsy is determined the type of cancer present .Bilateral cancer is diagnosed when separate primary breast cancer present in each breast. There are several stages of breast cancer; Stage 0 is a non –invasive…

AbstractBreast cancer is a malignant tumor that developed from breast cells. It usually starts in the inner lining of the milk ducts and can spread to other parts of the body. There are several signs and symptoms of breast cancer. A lump in breast tissue is one of the first signs or symptoms of breast cancer. In recent years, breast cancer has been slightly increasing among African-American women, while remaining stable among white women. There has been a slight increase of breast cancer in…

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness: From diagnosis to end of life care As of 2016, pancreatic cancer moved up to being ranked as the 3rd deadliest cancer to date; whereas, in just 2015, it was ranked as the 4th (Hirsberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer, n.d.). Pancreatic cancer is prominent in adults over the age of 60. Cancer research centers, and doctors alike, have researched pancreatic cancer for more than 40 years and it still has the lowest survival rate of all other cancers (Higuera, et al.,…

"What Is Breast Cancer?" Everyday Health. American Cancer Society, Inc., 12 Nov. 2010. Web. 4 Feb. 2011. The American Cancer Society is a health organization to help with cancer because cancer is very dangerous, and the elimination process for cancer can be very time consuming. They try to save lives and help those who are in need because of cancer. The Cancer Society was founded in 1913 by 15 physicians under their first name known as the American Society for the Control of Cancer (ASCC). The…

I decided to do my cancer research paper on Lung cancer because more than 37.8 million people smoke cigarettes in the US and you have a 80-90% chance of getting lung cancer. Lung cancer starts in the lung , Their abnormal cells cluster together to form a tumor. Cancer cell grows without order or control, destroying healthy lung tissues around them. These tumors are called malignant tumors. My dad used to smoke every day for a year, he thought that nothing would happen to him. He got addicted…

Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There are walks, brunches, fundraisers and a host of other events that take place throughout the month of October in efforts to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer. Kaweah Delta Breast Center joins in the efforts each year with their Annual Pink Tea Party honoring those who have been affected by breast cancer. It’s a time when support is also given to those who have survived the disease. According to the Center of Disease Control breast cancer is…

truly physically unable to. In 1956, age 36, Franklin discovered that she had ovarian cancer (Biography “Rosalind Franklin”). How she came to develop this cancer is debated, whether is was due to the radiation of working with x-ray crystallography (Bagley) or possibly that it was the wicked irony of the gene being in her own DNA due to the fact that Ashkenazi Jews have a “hereditary predisposition to ovarian cancer” (Famous Scientists “Rosalind Franklin”). Beginning treatment, Franklin went…

Back in 1878 lung cancer was almost a rare disease; it was only one percent of all the different types of cancer. Scientists thought, in later years once the idea that cells split, reformed, and split again, that the reason there was little talk of cancer in the ancient world was because people did not live long enough. But in the EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES by Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the history of the disease from 2500BCE to the present. By the early 1900s cancer seemed to be increasing. Or…

Inflammatory Breast Cancer Frances Mendez-Watson Alaska Career College Inflammatory Breast Cancer Inflammatory Breast Cancer, or IBC, is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer that is often diagnosed at stage III or IV because unlike most common types of breast cancers, this type does not typically cause a lump in the breast and symptoms are unlike those of other cancer types. This form of breast cancer only occurs about 1% to 5% of all breast cancers but since it is often misdiagnosed…

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the world. It starts in the cells lining the cervix, which is the lower part of the uterus that connects uterus to the vagina (birth canal). The normal cervical cells acquire the genetic change that causes them to abnormal cells. Then, they begin to grow out of control and become cancerous cells. The two main types of cervical cancer are squamous cell carcinomas, which develops from cells in the exocervix and adenocarcinomas, which…