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Testicular cancer is a disease that causes malignant cells to form in the tissues of one or both testicles. It is mostly common in twenty to thirty five year old men. It has two main types seminomas and nonseminomas. These two types grows and spread differently and are treated differently. Nonseminomas tend to grow and spread more quickly than seminomas. Seminomas are more sensitive to radiation. A testicular tumor that contains both seminoma and nonseminoma cells is treated as a nonseminoma.…

cancer diagnosed in women in the United States. It is the second most common cancer death with lung cancer being the first. African American women have a higher incidence of dying from the disease than any other race or ethnical group. For many years, it was thought that this was due to African American women not having access to the same health benefits as those of other races and that it was often found at a more advanced state. Though there are many factors that contribute to this, one of…

Mutations in the DMD gene, which creates dystrophin, causes Muscular dystrophy. Dystrophin is located in the skeletal and and cardiac muscles. Alterations or mutations in the gene make it so little to know dystrophin are produced, causing Muscular Dystrophy. Without enough dystrophin muscles contract and get damaged. (2015) The mutated gene can be inherited in an X-linked pattern. This means it is passed along the X chromosome. If a mother has a faulty DMD gene, her son has a fifty percent…

serious problems. Any amount of swelling, bacteria, or abnormal growth in the brain could lead to a life threatening illness. An abnormal growth, such as a tumor impedes on different functions depending on where that tumor lies within the brain. Each year thousands of people are diagnosed with brain tumors, There are many different types of brain tumors, some curable, some not. In this paper I will address a specific kind of cancer, Glioblastoma Multiforme. Glioblastoma…

An estimate of 24,090 deaths occur each year due to leukemia. An estimate of 52,380 new cases are diagnosed each year. In 2014, 52,380 people were diagnosed with leukemia. Leukemia is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, taking the lives of both the young and the old. Leukemia is the tenth most common type of cancer occurring in all races or ethnicities. Acute leukemia develops fast, but chronic leukemia develops more slowly. It causes almost one third of all cancer deaths in children today,…

Metal Gear Survive replaces stealth with survival in what is the first Metal Gear game without the involvement of director Hideo Kojima. Although Survive is the first entry in the Metal Gear series without Kojima’s influence, it isn’t the first spin-off. Released only five years ago on the PS3, XBox 360 and PC; Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance took the Metal Gear series in a completely different direction. Replacing stealth with hack and slash action mayhem, surprisingly, Rising worked. The…

ensure the survival of the Mars colony. The population of Mars would be affected by the initial colony arrival and affected more with the growth of the colony over time. As the colony on Mars goes on the population on Mars will likely rise and the exponential growth of Earth’s population will likely shrink. The Mars colony is planned to have some slightly different population growth strategies than others. To begin with, my colony will have little to no growth in the first five years of it’s…

a pregnant 17 year-old farm labor worker. Her placenta erupted at 30 weeks during her pregnancy and an emergency C-section was performed. Her baby is a high risk in the NICU with low APGAR scores, neonatal encephalopathy, seizures and poor prognosis. His survival rate is low with chances of neurological damage. Doctors want to continue treatment while Ana wants to take home the baby for palliative care. There are many studies that prove premature babies do have a chance of survival, but there…

AIDS-related lymphoma is a broad term for a group of blood cancers that, as its name implies, affects AIDS patients. There are various types of non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) that this category encompasses, so it is not as clear-cut as one might imagine. AIDS-related lymphomas are very complex diseases with many factors to consider. It is important to understand the origin of AIDS-related lymphoma. According to the article “AIDS-Related Malignancies,” AIDS-related lymphoma is believed to be…

has a lot of different preventions as well they are different types of stages in Melanoma. Melanoma will need surgery to get rid of the tumor, is a really serious surgery that can save your life or help get rid of the Melanoma. The percentages of survival are really high but it can vary on the different stages. The thing that you always need to do is to go to a dermatologist to help prevent it. You need to go to dermatologist every time you see a mole in your body. The dermatologist would need…