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    Cervical Cancer Essay

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    lots of diseases like cervical cancer, Brest cancer, UTI, Skin cancer and so on. Cervical cancer is the most common cancer for affecting women’s. New Zealand HPV Immunisation Programme is the impending long term to avoid cervical cancer for two women every week, saving over thirty lives every year. From New Zealand nearly one hundred and sixty women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year and sixty women die from it. Maori women are almost double as likely to get cervical cancer and almost…

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    body, I was again lost for words. It all started out as cervical cancer. According to www.livehealthyaustin.com, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide. There are three main types of cervical cancer…

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    woman aged twenty-one to sixty-five years had not been screened for this preventable disease in the past five years”(Bernard, V. 2014). Within this group one in four had never been screened for cervical cancer. These statistics can be greatly reduced with the Human Papillomavirus vaccination, early cervical cancer screenings performed during a well woman exam, abstinence, and safe sex practices; although condoms do not cover the entire area that could be infected with HPV. Currently there are…

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    Causes Of Cervical Cancer

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    with cervical cancer worldwide with about 275,000 women dying of the disease yearly (WHO, March 4 2011). It is the 15th most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. In Australia, in 2012, there were 869 new diagnosed cases and is estimated to increase to 903 in 2016, with 250 deaths. The 5-year survival rate (2008-2012) is 72%. (Health, A. I. of, & 2017, W. July 17 2016).. A major breakthrough occurred in 1976, when Dr zur Hansen identified the human papilloma virus (HPV) as the cause of cervical…

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    Cervicalgia Case Summary

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    This is a 59-year-old female with a 7/29/2009 date of injury, due to a slip and fall. DIAGNOSIS: Cervicalgia; C4-7 anterior cervical decompression and fusion 2014; Lumbar/cervical disc degeneration. 12/15/15 Progress Report described that the patient has significant neck pain radiating to he right upper extremity with weakness and increased elbow pain. She still continues to have severe back pain. She still has lower back pain and occasional lower extremity pain. She gets some pain relief…

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    neck pain was very new to me. There were several instances in the past where I treated patients with neck pain by giving mobilizations techniques and modalities in and around cervical area. This article was a convincing one which helped me to understand the concept of biomechanical and etiological relationship between cervical and thoracic structures and how this knowledge can be capitalized by effectively using thoracic mobilization in patients suffering from chronic mechanical neck pain.…

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    Scoliosis When a human is born, there are seven cervical, twelve thoracic and five lumbar vertebrae's. Viewing the spine posteriorly in a patient with a healthy spine you will see that there is no curvature from right to left but looking at the spine laterally you will find that there is a regular "s" shape. " This allows for an even distribution of weight. The "S" curve helps a healthy spine withstand all kinds of stress. The cervical spine curves slightly inward, the thoracic curves outward…

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    Cervical cancer is usually a squamous cell carcinoma caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) infection; less often, it is an adenocarcinoma ("Merck Manuals," 2013). It is asymptomatic in its early stage. The first symptom is usually irregular, often postcoital bleeding. Signs and symptoms of a more advanced cervical cancer usually include vaginal bleeding after intercourse, between periods or after menopause; watery, bloody vaginal discharge that may be heavy and have a foul odor; and pelvic pain…

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    Prophylactic Vaccines The study sought to investigate on the safety and efficacy of the prophylactic HPV vaccines against the precursor events of cervical cancer in women. It was established that prophylactic vaccines are very effective in averting any HPV infections and are successful in preventing infections that are related to precancerous cervical lesions. The degree of efficacy of the vaccines is different depending on the type of vaccine and the level of the infection. The study…

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    Gardasil Critique

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    Papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is the most frequently sexually transmitted disease with more than six million cases being reported each year. This disease can be deadly, turning into cervical cancer later in the patient’s life. Due to the epidemic levels of the disease, new precautions are being created to prevent it. In the article “New Cervical Cancer Vaccine Should Not Be Mandatory,” the author made it clear that the Gardasil vaccine should not be mandated for children; however, the author is…

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