Head and neck cancer

they dreaded attending every day, and even make the football team. It wasn’t as bad as it seemed. Now imagine them coming to you with a pain they haven 't experienced before. It harder for them to breathe, there’s a lump on their neck that wasn’t there before, their head feels like it’s on fire. So you do what most mothers or fathers would do: you take them to the doctor. The doctors run some tests and take some blood, you reassure your child…

causes of cancer, and come to kill hundreds of thousands of individuals every year. Tobacco culture has spread vastly and become a routine aspect in the lives of millions. Smokeless tobacco in particular has become a regularity in the lives of farmers, truck drivers, baseball players and various other groups of people all over the world. Consumers of smokeless tobacco who want to live a healthier life should not continue using smokeless tobacco because it…

Rhabdomyosarcoma, also know as RMS, is a type of sarcoma in which cancer cells form a muscle tissue. There are three main types this disease has, Embryonal, Alveolar, and Anaplastic. There is also stage I, stage II, stage III, and stage IV. There are treatments for RMS but it's all depending on the area, type, and stage of the cancer, survival rates will also fall under that. As far as symptoms, it can be very difficult to find early stages, since RMS mostly diagnosed in children younger than 5…

I am frightened by the sight of myself as I look at all the cords that are twisting and turning in and out of my body like snakes. A breathing mask is around my bald head as I lay peacefully but not breathing anymore. I see beauty behind the hospital gown and dirty skin. I look to the right of the hospital bed, a red light flashes, like an ambulance, from the monitor. The monitor isn’t going up and down like mountains but is a flat plain of land. Not a pebble on its surface. The moment of…

Formal Care Plan: Pneumonia Biographical Data The patient is a 78 year old Hispanic female. She was born in Houston, Texas. She is married and has 2 children and is a retired school teacher. Present Health-Illness Status She was admitted into the hospital from the emergency room with pneumonia. The patient states she drove herself to the emergency room because she was feeling very sick and short of breath. She states she had been feeling like this for the past 3 days. She finally decided to…

was brought into the ER after a syncope episode without head trauma. Upon taking a history and a CT scan, we found he had a fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to uncontrolled hypertension. Unfortunately, cases like these are common in underserved community due to patients having a lack of insurance, primary care doctors or being…

all traffic-related deaths in the United States. Marijuana however, doesn’t play a major role in traffic accidents. April M. Short of the website Salon stated that “No substantial evidence links marijuana to traffic accidents, domestic violence or cancer, yet pot is illegal and listed as a Schedule I controlled substance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Meanwhile, alcohol remains legal despite the fact that it has been proven to contribute to many societal ills, including domestic…

MOUTH CANCER Research Questions: 1. What are the reasons for mouth cancer? 2. How effective are the treatments for mouth cancer? 3. How to avert mouth cancer? 4. What are the effective measures taken against mouth cancer? Objective:- The main reason behind choosing this topic is our keen interest in health and disease and when we saw the mortality rate due to cancer, it made us think to work on it. So we as a group of three candidates decided to spread awareness about mouth cancer. We decided…

The Southern Bog Lemming is native to Ottawa, Canada and is often found in bogs, moist places, and sometimes deciduous forests and meadows. Lemmings are small mouse-like animals that on average weigh 35 grams. The dorsal side tends to be dark brown while the ventral side is a silver-ish gray. Algonquin Wolf The Algonquin Wolf is native to Ottawa, Canada and is a hybrid of the Eastern Wolf, Gray Wolf, and Coyote. Algonquin Wolves are usually found in, but not limited to, deciduous and mixed…

There are more than 100 types of cancers that exists; and any part of the body can be affected by it. Neuroblastoma is one of those cancers, and it usually appears around the adrenal glands, which sits at the top of the kidneys. It can also develop onto other areas of the body for example the chest, neck, and near the spine. The reason why is because those are areas where groups of nerve cells exists within the body. Neuroblastoma is a very common cancer that mainly affects infants and children…