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Why have you chosen to engage those on your campus about breast cancer awareness and the importance of research? As a role model on campus with the positions I hold such as RA and SGA Vice-president, I know the power I have to empower people. Breast cancer is a vicious disease, it took my mother from me. I will be damned if one had to go through the pain I go through every day. The pain of nothing being able to pick up my phone and call my mother. The pain of not being able to hear…

Inflammatory Breast Cancer Frances Mendez-Watson Alaska Career College Inflammatory Breast Cancer Inflammatory Breast Cancer, or IBC, is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer that is often diagnosed at stage III or IV because unlike most common types of breast cancers, this type does not typically cause a lump in the breast and symptoms are unlike those of other cancer types. This form of breast cancer only occurs about 1% to 5% of all breast cancers but since it is often misdiagnosed…

The women at the spirit of women say that largest struggle of living with breast cancer, and even being a survivor, is trying to find the new normal in their lives. Issues in the digestive tract and hair loss are common side effects of chemotherapy along with many other complications of breast cancer. Some women may have to have a mastectomy, others may need hormone treatment or radiation therapy. The women explain that having to accept the side effects of the treatments for their disease is…

October is nationally highlighted as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There are walks, brunches, fundraisers and a host of other events that take place throughout the month of October in efforts to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer. Kaweah Delta Breast Center joins in the efforts each year with their Annual Pink Tea Party honoring those who have been affected by breast cancer. It’s a time when support is also given to those who have survived the disease. According to the Center…

Introduction Breast cancer is one of the top killers in the United States and all over the world. Because breast cancer is the most common cancer that is a non-skin cancer, many are affected by it globally. The most commonly affected are white women in most age groups although African American women have higher death rates and incidents of breast cancer before 40 years of age. Not only are women affected by this, but also a handful of men each year ends up being diagnosed with breast cancer and…

Teaching Plan Assignment: Nutrition and Diet in Menopause Sometime around the age of 45 and 55, a woman will experience the “the change of life”, also known as menopause. The North American Menopause Society (2015) defines menopause as, “the final menstrual period and usually confirmed when a woman has missed her periods for 12 consecutive months (in absence of other obvious causes)”. This end in fertility marks a significant change in a woman’s life that will have a lasting impact on her…

In 2013, it was estimated that 300,000 women would be diagnosed with breast cancer and about half of these women would receive radiation treatments. Breast radiation therapy is traditionally given when the patient is in the supine position, however, new research is suggesting a new position for patients. The above set of references describes the advantages and disadvantages of the new positioning, prone, and the traditional supine positioning when treating breast cancer in women with radiation…

Esteemed PSU researcher Dr. Jeffrey D. Robinson recently presented how patients diagnosed with breast cancer need to understand that they have a comfortable six weeks from the positive biopsy before they need to make a decision on how to proceed with treatment. “People diagnosed should take the time out and talk to multiple specialist and get second opinions.” said Dr. Robinson. A study he conducted shows how the power of communication can influence how fast some patients opt to have surgery…

In this research the biographical disruption theorized by Bury (1982, 1991, 2001) and Charmaz concept of loss of identity will be used as the theoretical frame work to explain the disruptive experience of BC on everyday life, body image and feeling of Saudi women, as well as the coping strategies they use. Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer among women throughout the world (World Health Organization, 2011). There has been a significant increase in the incidence of BC in…

Demographics and Symptoms of Endometriosis The people more at risk for developing Endometriosis include people who have under no circumstances given birth, they have relatives with Endometriosis or, they have any homoeopathic ailment that inhibits the typical track of menstrual flow out of the body Endometriosis affects 176 million women worldwide, Endometriosis typically initiates symptoms in the course of reproductive years. However many women and girls are undiagnosed until they are having…