Head and neck cancer

She is a 29-year-old female who was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer, which would consume her life in a couple of months. Brittany became the spokeswoman for death with dignity laws before her passing. Do you think Brittany Maynard just wants to die? Brittany stated, "I don't want to die," Maynard told CBS News correspondent…

Betty Jones is a happily married 54 y/o primary school teacher who presented at our clinic with a 2-day history of intense back pain after moving a heavy pot in the garden and a long-term history of bronchitis. Her back pain is exacerbated by a current episode of bronchitis, which is maintained by smoking 3-5 cigarettes daily. While in the garden two days ago, Betty bent over to move a large ceramic flower pot. Upon lifting, she experienced immediate pain which has remained consistent with an…

types of murmurs may indicate different conditions or can be a common difference between adults and children. For example, the venous hum murmur is essentially “blood flow returning from the head and arms through the large veins in the upper chest can be heard. This murmur will commonly disappear if the child’s head is turned to one side or the other” (“Types of Murmurs,” 2015). These murmurs are most commonly found in children and possibly young adults. A technique used to assess whether this…

A Memorable Death Bed It is never promised exactly when a life will be taken from us, but it is absolutely promised that one day- it will be. Whether it is a family member, friend, pet, or ourselves. What is to be expected from us is acceptance and understanding. Everything happens for a reason, even though there won’t always be an explanation for it. On a typical Sunday afternoon, I was at my best friend’s house. This was our normal routine. I would come over to play, or we would spend some…

malignant brain tumor. She moved with her family from California to Oregon, where she could legally die with medication prescribed under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act.” She states that she frequently experienced long in length seizures, and severe head and neck pain. These kinds of symptoms can interfere so much in a patients life, and it can change everything. When Maynard discusses the time she wants to die, she even says "I still feel good enough and I still have enough joy and I still…

Stoker, Bram. “Dracula.” New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. Print. Reading scholars interpret Bram Stoker’s childhood through his novels is like watching a past version of the infamous Norman Bates in the making; he has mommy and daddy issues, he gets jealous and angry, his love life’s a mess and so is his sex life, Bram Stoker simply seems to be a hot mess. Seeing as many aspects of Stoker’s background remains a mystery, scholars have no other option but to discover who Stoker is…

activity of the matrix cells of the hair follicle. At any given time more than 80% of scalp hair are in the anagen phase of the hair cycle. Hence the resulting hair loss is abrupt and extensive. In majority of the cases, it occurs in association with cancer chemotherapy and radiation, other causes being rare. Here we report a case of a middle aged female suffering from an Atopic dermatitis who was put on treatment with Azathioprine for the same. This was followed by a diffuse and extensive hair…

In this essay, I will be critically analysing the issue of women and domestic violence in the United Kingdom. The four different countries that make up the United Kingdom (Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England) all change their own domestic violence approach based on which policy they think that is best suited for their country. (Matczak, Hatzidimitriadou and Lindsay, 2011). Domestic violence is often described as any violent or aggressive behaviour within the home, typically involving the…

major surgeries every day and around 4200 OPD patients are attended per month. It also performs solid organ transplants for kidney, liver, heart and bone marrow transplant. It is well equipped with oncology services for most types of cancer also including head, neck, breast, cervical and gastro intestinal. 6. ACHIEVEMENTS • On an average 40 heart surgeries are conducted every day • 95% success rate achieved in the liver transplant of babies who weigh less than 10kg • Asia’s first hospital to…

According to the North Dakota Cancer Coalition (2011), one out of two men and one out of three women will develop cancer in their lifetimes. Research estimates at least 10% of cancer patients do not receive effective relief of their cancer pain identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) three-step ladder guidelines, and an upwards to 30% of patients receive poor pain control, especially in their last year of life (Raphael et al., 2010). For patients with refractory cancer pain,…