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CANCER RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT OVARIAN CANCER SECTION A Ovarian cancer grows in the cells which make up the ovaries; the ovary, fallopian tube, and uterus. These cells are part of the female reproductive system, and are essential in the fertilization of eggs to create a fetus (Ovarian Cancer Alliance, 2014). Cancer is caused by abnormal cells which grow and spread rapidly to other areas of the body through the bloodstream (metastasis). These cells can form a tumor and follow the process of…

Richa Sood NURS 6521 Advanced Pharmacology Walden University August 7, 2014 Breast cancer in women Breast cancer in women For the purpose of this assignment, I chose breast cancer as it is very common and second leading cause of death among cancers in United States, after heart disease. However, due to the improvement in drugs, technology, early detection and better understanding on the disease, the rates are declining as compare to the past. Some of the common risk factors that can…

Vaginal Cancer is a very serious disease that should be taken care of as soon as possible. This is a disease where the cancer cells are formed in the vagina. There is two main cancer which are not very common but are Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma. These next two aren’t so much common, vaginal melanoma develops in the melanocytes of your vagina and vaginal sarcoma develops in the tissue cells of the wall of your vagina. Squamous Cell Carcinoma forms in thin and flat cells…

Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917. She was born into poverty and grew up in a tar-paper shack with a roof patched up with tin, sleeping on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She was the youngest child of twenty, which included fourteen boys and six girls. Her parents, Lou Ella and Jim Townsend, were sharecroppers. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 from the east of the Mississippi Delta to work on the E. W…

Moral Distress of Nurses Interview Everyone will end up facing an issue at one point in their life when their moral code of ethics is tested. One profession where peoples’ ethics are tested every day is nursing. Nurses are put in situations everyday where they question their morals because of the decisions of those around them causing a lot of extra stress on nurses. It has become so common that the term moral distress in nurses is being studied. Moral distress in nurses is defined as painful…

It was strenuous for both of us, and it ended up putting a strain on the rest of the family as well. At the thick of it all, I was fifteen to sixteen years old. I’d been going through personal issues with my anxiety, and my mom had just had a hysterectomy and was having issues with her health. Arguments would start over something small that a comment and would escalate to shouting matches and a lot of angry walks. I can’t remember what started it, but I do remember going a week or so without…

Case Report: Incidental Finding and Repair of a Morgagni Diaphragmatic Hernia during a Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Key Words: Morgagni Hernia, Case Report, Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Abstract Morgagni hernias are a rare finding, but even rarer are those that present asymptomatically in adulthood. This case presentation discusses an asymptomatic Morgagni hernia that was incidentally found in an elderly patient during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Our patient complained of right upper…

Seventeen years determine the age gap between my oldest sibling and me. Being the youngest of four and the sibling closest in age to me is still five years older, I felt like I was on my own. By the time I was finally aware of my surroundings and in need of guidance and advice from my wise older siblings, they had already started their lives and left me to become my own person and make my own mistakes. My parents strived to achieve the American dream; they worked long, irregular hours resulting…

revealed hyperinflated lungs suggestive of emphysema. She refused to be treated in the hospital at that time, ad was sent home with an inhaler and antibiotics. She also refused the pulmonary function test. She has a history of childhood asthma, and a hysterectomy in the 1970’s. She admits to smoking one pack of cigarettes for the past 40 years. She denies any other medical issues. Currently she takes only Tylenol 650mg, 2 orally for pain, as she needs it.…

"What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember."("Fannie Lou Hamer." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015. Web. 19 Feb. 2015).This famous quote was said by Fannie Lou Hamer who was a civil rights activist and philanthropist .Hamer was threatened, arrested, beaten, and shot at because of her job but continued to fight the segregation struggle even if…