Cervix

One of the top leading causes of preventable deaths and illness in the United States, is tobacco. Approximately 20 million people as of 1964 have died from the use of tobacco, and an estimated 2.5 million from second hand smoke (Services). One single cigarette contains over 7,000 chemicals which include ammonia, nicotine, arsenic, and acetone. Some of these chemicals are very dangerous poisons and are known to cause different types of cancer. When cigarettes were first discovered there were not…

device that is place in a female’s arm. However, these new advance birth control options are expensive and need to either be put in by a doctor or with instructions by a doctor. Other options include Depo (the shot), pills, ring (sits against your cervix), and the patch (placed on skin) are other cheap and easy to transport options as well but if used incorrectly their likelihood of preventing pregnancy decreases. The birth control that is cheap, works very well, and is easy to transport are…

Avastin- Uses, Side effects and its effectiveness on certain types of Cancer Cancer is a fatal disease which knows no gender or age. It can develop in every human’s body and there are many types of cancer which affect certain area of the body. Cancer develops when the process of forming new cells or dying out of the old ones is interrupted and the cells become abnormal, meaning that old cells survive when they shouldn’t and new cells are formed when they are not needed. These cells grow into…

HeLa cells are cancer cells that come from a human’s cervix. These cells were the first of human cancer cells to be continuously cultured and led to many other strains of cells that could also be used for experimentation. When a cell is cultured that means that the cell is removed from an animal or plant and instead grown in an artificial environment. These cells were important to study because they grow extremely fast if they have the right conditions and enough space. Most cancer cells do…

operating table. When she signed her consent form before her operation it only stated that she gives the John Hopkins staff permission to perform any operative procedures. With that being said Dr. Wharton removed two samples of her tissue from her cervix without even notifying her. Even though informed consent was still in its infancy, doctors had every right to use Lacks’s cells for their research. John Hopkins Hospital, where Ms. Lacks received her care, did not have Institutional Review Board…

well as unique occurrences for events that result in a happy or positive outcome. The discovery of ‘Immortal Life’ in cells happened in the mid-1900s following the treatment of an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks. The cells taken from her cervix were the first of human cells to grow rapidly and reproduce many generations of cells in a culture in a laboratory. A magnificent medical miracle however has a deeper and darker side to it as explored in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks…

Introduction The use of animal models in research is most often justified based on the idea that humans and animals are related to a certain degree and hence data obtained from animal experimentation can be extrapolated and applied to humans. Evidently, this does not apply to all species even those who share anatomical similarities or are closely related from an evolutionary standpoint as physiological responses may vary. However, animal models are required simply because experimentation on…

Per the CDC, Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV) is a group of more than 150 related viruses. Each HPV virus in this large group is given a number which is called its HPV type. HPV is named for the warts (papilloma’s) some HPV types can cause. Some other HPV types can lead to cancer, especially cervical cancer. There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of males and females. The HPV vaccine is a series of three shots over six months given to protect against HPV infection…

Medical Ethics and the Abuse of Power In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, we see how medical professionals can abuse their power when treating patients. Henrietta Lacks was an underprivileged, African American woman with cervical cancer. While visiting her doctors for treatment, cancerous cells were taken from her, harvested, and distributed to labs all over the world without her knowledge. She was treated during the 1950s when racism was at its prime, causing her to be…

Abortion is termination of pregnancy and it is mean the end of pregnancy . There are two types of abortion are spontaneous or induced. Spontaneous is known as miscarriage which means that the abortion happened automatically without surgery or planning by patient or doctors , while induced simply means termination of pregnancy which is planned because of medical reasons or personal reasons . Recently, the statistics showed on increase in the abortion rate year after year . Abortion is a danger…