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The word acute means the disease progress quickly. Acute myelogenous is an aggressive form of blood cancer. Other names for acute myelogenous leukemia include acute myeloid, acute myelodblastic, acute granulocytic and acute non-lymphocytic. It can form a solid tumor called myeloid…

In the United States, 1 in 3 women dies from heart disease every year.1 Thus, heart disease is the number one killer of women compared to all cancers combined.1 It is reported that approximately 43 million women in the U.S are affected by heart disease, and about 90 percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease.1 More women die of heart attacks or other heart disease than men, and they are more likely to not get proper treatment compared to men. 2 This risk is even…

What is Cancer? Cancer is formed when malignant tumors are formed inside one’s body. Malignant tumors are defined as “ a term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby tissues.” Quoted from https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/malignancy Tumors are also defined as a mass of tissues which also called lumps. These tumors are formed when the normal process of cells dividing itself was disrupted because normally, our body signals…

Some people have the perception that suffering from cancer has no cure. However it can be denied with significant number of advances in the diagnosis and treatment options for cancer, you can strive for the betterment of the quality of life and get the treatment, if cancer is diagnosed in early stage. There are numerous therapies available such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, vaccination and also hormonal therapy which have been globally developed to produce fewer health side effects and…

Emma Robinson Eden Newman Honors English 3 October 2016 Cancer Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in parts of the body. Cancer results from an abnormal growth of malignant cells. We also have genes in our body which control how all cells work. Each gene has a certain job or task. If one gene has abnormalities or does not function properly, all of the other genes are changed. This creates an abnormal protein. Abnormal proteins sendoff different…

What is cancer? Every day billions of mutations occur in human cells, but some of them make the cell cancerous. Cancer, one of the leading cause of death in the world, is a disease caused by occurring mutation in many genes of a cell, not just one gene, which changes underlying principles of the cell molecular action, such as the cell cycle, growth trend, signaling, and its specific death time.(2) The most crucial characteristic of a cancer cell is the excessive, uncontrolled growth cycle…

diagnosed in the United States and 595,690 will die from the disease. The most common cancers in 2016 are projected to be Breast Cancer, lung and bronchus cancer, prostate cancer, colon and rectum cancer, bladder cancer, melanoma of the skin, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, thyroid cancer, kidney and renal pelvis cancer, leukemia, endometrial cancer, and pancreatic cancer.("Cancer Statistics." National Cancer Institute) Cancer is a serious disease that may be preventable and curable. I will discuss what…

What is bladder cancer? Bladder cancer is a disease in which malignant cells forms in the tissues of the bladder wall. The bladder is the organ that stores urine.1 What causes bladder cancer? Scientists do not completely understand the causes of bladder cancer; however, there are some risk factors associated with its occurrence like: • Age (the risk of bladder cancer increases with age. About nine out of 10 people with bladder cancer are older than 65);2 • Smoking (smoking greatly increases the…

Haemochromatosis is a genetic disease that causes its victims to store too much iron in their body. This is a very serious problem in today’s society, yet I do not feel that there is enough recognition for it. It’s not recognized as widely as cancer, but if left untreated, it can grow to be just as serious. I believe it should be recognized as widely at cancer, because it is just as dangerous. This disease is important because it can and will do major damage to the body if left untreated.…

* spielmeyer Fogt Hergan * * Batten Disease is a degenerative neurological condition that affect people of all ages, particularly between mid childhood and their early twenties. 
 * The most common form of Battens is Juvenile Battens affecting children between 5-25 years. 
 * It was discovered in 1903 Frederick Batten, a British Paediatrician. [22] 
 * Detected when symptoms such as loss of vision and balance, seizures, minor behavioural changes occur. These are often diagnosed as epilepsy or…