Lymphoma

The Vietnam War is infamous for the controversy surrounding it and the affects it had on both the soldiers and civilians involved. This brutal war was one of the first wars where biological warfare was utilized, resulting in a multitude of tragedies and carnage. The Vietnam War was a sort of new kind of War. As the allies faced off against communist Vietnam, the United States began to encounter problems in Vietnam with the Vietcong, the Vietnamese communist soldiers. The Vietcong used a style of…

Cancer Cancer, is the leading cause of mortality in the world with approximately 14 million new cases reported each year and 8.2 million cancer related deaths according to the report by the World Health Organizations (2014). This paper is aimed at highlighting the case for Cancer by defining it, detailing the causes, symptoms, and the testing process, diagnosis, treatment and prevention methods. Cancer is a term referring to a variety of diseases that are characterized by the rapid and…

The Iran Hostage Situation captivated the world for 444 days. The Iranian captors and their crisis successfully delivered for enemies of the United States a significant blow to American prestige, which led to a lack of faith in the Carter Administration and the government as a whole. The events leading up to the capture of the embassy workers, President Carter’s involvement in the crisis, the treatment of the hostages, and their eventual release impacted the world and has since changed the way…

treatment in procedures such as bone marrow transplant. Stem cell transplants are generally used as treatment when the bone marrow is no longer capable of producing healthy blood cells and is damaged. For example, it is used to treat conditions such as lymphoma and leukaemia and works by replenishing the damaged blood cells. An allogeneic transplant involves taking stem cells from the bone marrow or blood of one person and transferring them to somebody else. Alternatively, it is possible to use…

The brain is one if not the most important organ in our body. It controls the vital functions of the body including speech, thoughts, memory, vision, breathing, movement and more. Since the brain is such an important organ, any little change or imbalance in the brain can lead to a 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…

Grace Lessman HES 1823 March 22, 2017 X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia  X-linked Agammaglobulinemia, or Bruton’s disease, directly targets the immune system. The function of the immune system is to protect the body from harmful cells that may cause disease. The immune system determines whether a cell is healthy or unhealthy. An unhealthy cell is infected, and once the infection is detected the immune system sends cells called antibodies to respond and terminate the unhealthy cells (Primary Immune…

Cancer is a disease in which abnormal growth of cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissues (“Cancer- Google Search”). There are more than 100 types of cancer, that includes lung cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma. The symptoms vary depending on the type of cancer is active. Most of the them are detected after a tumor is felt or when other symptoms start to develop. It can also be detected in blood, urine, or incidentally by reason of evaluating or…

fight and end wars, although they have many other negative affects most of them are things like radiation and thousands of deaths. The atomic bombs explosions killed around 120,000 people in Japan, the radiation and chemicals caused cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, brain damage, genetic and even more. Though still after seeing all that destruction and death, people decide to continue to use and test nuclear weapons. This is because nuclear weapons have power and that is what people and nations want…

Cancer is becoming a second leading cause of death in our society. The expenses for diagnosis and treatment are overwhelming. People may deal with various challenges like; physical, social, emotional and spiritual. “Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells anywhere in a body” (What is cancer, 2014). “Cancer is associated with the alteration expression of cellular genes that normally regulate proliferation and differentiation” (Copstead & Banasik, 2013). Abnormal cells are called…

Stroke and Osteoarthritis. Overweight and obesity are also associated with high risk in developing cancer. These cancers including Colorectal, Breast, Ovarian, Cervical, Endometrium, Esophagus, Kidney, Pancreas, Gall bladder, Thyroid, Prostate and Lymphoma. IMPACT ON HEALTHCARE Being that the region is rural, it experiences issues such as inadequate health services with low numbers of GPs and doctors available to the area and therefore with the growing rate of child obesity this put further…