Cancer

Cancer is a process that has always effected animals, it is just as common in domestic and farm animals, birds and fishes as it is in humans. Western scientific medicine has been effective in minimising infectious diseases. Many of us are living longer and cancer has almost been accepted as a normal feature of the ageing process. But statistics do not bear this out. The incidence of cancer is increasing in all age groups. Because cancer cells take some time to grow to a stage where they are a…

I am a cancer epidemiologist and epidemiology methodologist beginning my second year as a tenure track assistant professor in the department of public health. This purpose of this statement is to provide a brief narrative on my background, accomplishments and goals in the three areas of academic evaluation: teaching, research, and service. I will do this by describing my experience and efforts in four interrelated areas of focus in my career: cancer epidemiology, healthcare delivery, electronic…

specific patterns and Cancer is one of the most ancient constellations in our sky. The twelve constellations in the zodiac, Cancer is commonly presented as a Crab for its Latin name. It is nearly impossible to see the constellation with the naked eye. Its location lies 6 degrees north to 33 degrees north and an area of about 506 square degrees. Although the symbol does not appear like a crab and more like an upside-down Y, many believe it to be the back of the crab. Cancer is currently one of…

are at fault in the way in which they are using the sun. Those who spend too much time outside may develop skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer; about 3.5 million cases of basal and squamous cell skin cancer are diagnosed each year. Another 73,000 cases are caused by melanoma, a more dangerous but less common type of skin cancer. Basal cell, squamous cell and melanoma cancers tend to be found on parts of the body over exposed to the sun (“Sun and UV Exposure”). Our body’s main…

Cancer is a scary thing as an adult but imagine being a teenager? In “The Fault in our Stars,” by John Green, it talks about two cancer patients who are teenagers. Hazel is a teen who has had cancer all her life and Augustus is the same. These two meet at a support group meeting and instantly hit it off. Throughout the book, their families and friends are there too. This story takes place in Indianapolis where Hazel and Augustus live. Now, the story is definitely a rollercoaster. Hazel and…

Introduction: The paper discusses in detail potentially new drugs discovery for prostate cancer disease by exploiting literature-derived knowledge and semantics. Using knowledge discovery methodologies is, recently, getting popular for all types of drastically growing data sources such as medical data. Although the authors argue that their methodology is groundbreaking and it sounds reasonably effective, the methodology could have been more practical and automated by reducing a manual…

begin, cancer is caused by uncontrolled division of abnormal cells. There a various types of cancer that can form in a person 's body. Renal, liver and digestive cancer would be discussed in this passage. Renal cancer also known as kidney cancer, occurs when the cancer cells form in the tubules of the kidney . Smoking, hypertension, and obesity are some of the high risk factors associated with renal cancers. Staging describes how the cancer has spread and according to America Cancer Society…

Skin cancer is by far known to be the most common type of cancer occurring in the human population today. However, most types of skin cancer are not considered to be a highly epidemic and can be cured easily, but there is one type of skin cancer that is considered to be most life threatening and that is melanoma. The reason why this disease is called ‘melanoma’ is because a tumor develops made of the melanocyte cells which are melanin producing cells (Skin Cancer 2016). Over the past few years’…

There are many possible causes, that can set off, trigger, or make cancer appear. By having abnormal gene functions, is one of the ways that helps contribute to the causing of cancer. The genes that everyone has, are all tiny little pieces of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid). The instructions they give out basically help make the proteins we need to function, when it is time to destroy the damaged cells our body makes, and the last basic one is how to keep our cells in our body in balance. Three out…

There are those who would argue with the use of the words 'fight' 'battle' and 'struggle' when talking about cancer, which to many are synonymous with words around wartime rhetoric. However, in my mind they are meant to evoke positivity at an unimaginably difficult time in a cancer survivors life especially when the diagnosis is that of stage four, advanced metastatic prostate cancer. I suppose it could actually be misconstrued as waging war on oneself, but for me this was the mindset approach…