Esophageal cancer

most recent skin graph when a call came in from the front desk, my next patient was here. I had yet to physically see the patient myself, but I had already made a prediction based on what was already known: Melanoma. The most dangerous form of skin cancer. Over 200,000 documented cases around the world each year, killing roughly 2% of those effected. [1] Despite the seemingly high survival rate, Melanoma is very deadly when not treated early on. Modern awareness and technology have helped to…

of death from cancer is decreasing, but it will always have a significant impact in nursing practice. Mortality has declined by 66% over the past 30 years, from a 5-year survival rate of less than 50% to approximately 83% today (Barbel & Peterson, 2015). The article, “Recognizing subtle signs and symptoms of pediatric cancer”, discusses the causes and risks, signs and symptoms, details of the different forms of cancer, as well as some nursing implications in regards to pediatric cancer.…

Addiction has many faces, cigarettes being the most notorious. In all honesty, cigarettes damage lungs. By the same token, cigarettes give people cancer. Even worse, is the high price of cigarettes. They contain a nasty chemical, and that chemical is called nicotine. On top of all of that, cigarettes weaken a human 's immune system. Cigarettes are dangerous to any and all users. As if a person did not already know, smoking destroys your lungs like an atomic bomb. Smoking can cause the body’s…

Usually, when children have malignant brain tumors, they will need radiation therapy to try to stop the malignant cells from spreading. Doctors try their hardest to postpone radiational therapy in children as it may generate long-term brain effects. When radiation therapy is used, the radiational energy transmitted to the tumor area can affect abnormal tissue as well as normal tissue, which can induce problems. The more tissue area that the doctors choose to radiate, the higher the chance…

examination of the history of cancer and how treatments were created, along with a detailed description of the author’s personal experience during the early days of oncology. The author of Emperor of all Maladies: A Biology of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, was able to lay out all of the aspects of cancer and the battle of trying to treat, prevent, and cure it. Since the 1800s, doctors have been pushing and hoping for a wonder drug that would completely eradicate cancer. As the book shows, we…

“alternate universe” is my imagination. I have learned a lot from what happened on that day. I learned that life is precious. My Grandparents should have lived so much longer than they did. But, i can 't wish for the impossible. I also learned that cancer absolutely sucks. It’s the worst, it takes the ones you love the most away from you. But despite everything bad that had happened, I will always have the memories and the moments in my…

of saying that it’s their mission to help and contribute of curing and preventing cancer. Breast cancer is one of the many forms of cancer that runs in my family. I have seen my great grandmother to my older sister who diagnosed and caught early when she was 21 have their own personal fight with cancer. I want to work at Moffitt Cancer Center, because I want to help patients, visitors, and staff fight against cancer. I get to work alongside people who want to do the same thing I’m in this field…

Thus, drinking green tea daily or regularly will give many people an opportunity to not experience cancer or at least, delay tumor growth. Even thought green tea can not fully prevent people from getting cancer, it can help people by slowing down the tumor growth so that it does not spread to the other organs. By slowing down the spread, patients may have time to detect cancer in its early…

damaged or excessive mitochondria, especially when cells are under adverse stress. Mitophagy has been identified as the cause of various human diseases and even cancer. In recent years, researchers gradually regard mitophagy as the target for cancer treatment, although the role of mitophagy in the developmental and metabolic process of cancer is still not clear. In this experiment, we used C. elegans as a model for mitochondria dysfunction drug treatment to test whether drugs have different…

“The Bitter Pill” starts off with an acrimonious tale of how a man that was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma ended up borrowing from his in-law to pay for his exorbitant cancer treatments. After I picked my jaw from my desk, I started pondering what could the cancer treatment breakdown be that warrants the price to be so high? I, of course, am aware of how corrupt the healthcare system is in the US, but, to what extent, not so much. The medical jargon used in the hospital bill, along with…