Endometrial cancer

A 10 year old girl, who underwent heart surgeries is asking her favorite toy company to create a doll that has surgical chest scar, just like hers. Although, the company hasn’t commented about the petition yet, her family is still hopeful that the little girl’s request will eventually be heard, after the firm released a diabetes care kit for dolls. In the Change.org site, Lamaya Sakales explained that she was born with congenital heart defect. She said she has a scar running through her chest,…

Autoimmunity and the Endocrine System Chad Martin Nursing 631 Grand Canyon University December 12, 2015 Introduction The immune system in the human body is protection. Protection not only from infectious disease processes and foreign bodies but from ourselves. The immune system is great to have when working well, however, there can be unintended and serious consequences when the system fails and initiates inappropriate responses to our bodies own cells. Autoimmunity specifically is the…

its early stages, FAP has no symptoms. That is why genetic testing or endoscopic screening starting at puberty when polyps first appear is so important. The diagnosis can and should be made before symptoms and colorectal cancer occur.” In other cases, such as late-onset ovarian cancer, it is good to know before tumours and such develop, because this could mean that the afflicted person could never have children. While some people think knowing this information may lead to negative lifestyle…

IDEA Definition Intellectual disabilities are defined in IDEA as “significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance” (Heward, 2013, p. 124). Causation Intellectual disabilities can effect a child’s brain development at anytime. Problems could arise prenatal, perinatal, or even postnatal. Causes are categorized into biomedical,…

When people hear fertility, they think of the ability to bear child(ren), which is true. Depending on the country and/or era one is in, fertility is either a huge part of a being or not (not really a problem if infertile). The inability is conceive a child after a year of trying is called, infertility. There are many factors that play a role diminishing fertility, or infertility. One factor is age, as stated in the previous journal entry, emerging adulthood is the best biologically time to…

proclaimed ‘dying’ by doctors years ago. Cancer did not take my life, but it gave me a second chance at life. That is why I am so determined to succeed and make the best of the second chance God has given me which is to become a pediatric oncologist. My dream is to become a pediatric oncologist. I want to help kids fight one of the world most hated enemies —cancer. Also, I want to participate in cancer research as well. I do not just want to study about cancer in medical school, I want to…

the elongation step of viral DNA replication. The study showed that Acyclovir is phosphorylated into monophosphate purine analog, and remained in the infected cells before being converted into the triphosphate active form by the viral thymidine kinase. Once in this form, DNA polymerase will substitute it for Guanine triphosphate into the viral DNA chain. Due to Acyclovir’s structure, the lack of a second hydroxyl group prevents another residue to be attached and terminates chain growth. This…

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normal life until 2006 when he was told that he had leukemia. Gero Hutter, Timothy Brown’s oncologist, told Brown what they had to do to get him better: a stem cell transplant. A stem cell transplant, also known as an allogeneic transplant, is when a cancer patient gets another person’s healthy blood cells injected into him or her (“What is a Stem Cell Transplant”).…

Thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer every year. Many of us know of a loved one or of a friend that is battling with the disease. My sophomore year chemistry teacher battled colon and breast cancer all throughout my sophomore year. I always felt horrible for her when she had to tell the class of her need to take extended absences due to major surgeries. She is such a positive upbeat woman, even when you could tell she didn’t feel the best, she would greet you at the beginning of class…