National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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help you grow, and some throw you two steps backwards.We may not know it at the time, but the ones that hurt you, end up making you stronger. I was faced with the biggest challenge of my life when I was seven years old, my mother's diagnosis of breast cancer, and I felt like God had abandoned my family. Like he had forgotten we had even existed, or did not want anything to do with us. Everyday we would pray, and it felt like our prayers were not being answered, although they were. There were…

Breast cancer has definitely become a serious worldwide health challenge. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), public health data points shows that the global burden of breast cancer in women, measured by the number of times something happens, death, and financial based costs, is large and on the rise. Worldwide, it is estimated that more than one million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and more than 410,000 will die from the disease (Ajithkumar 2011). In…

scientists believe that they can use this information to fight cancer. When cancer cells appear, these repairing mechanisms repair the cancer cells, too. If they create something that can stop the repairing mechanisms from fixing cancer cells, the cells will eventually die and the person’s health will improve. The scientists stated, “The academy highlighted one such drug that's already on the market: olaparib, which is used to fight ovarian cancer.” Still they must find other types of medicines…

This article examined women and heart disease. It discussed that women and men have different symptoms of heart disease, and that more women die from heart disease than men. It reviews common symptoms like chest tightness or upper back or abdominal discomfort. The article shares that heart attacks occur often when women are resting or asleep. Since this is the case, by the time women seek help the damage to the heart has already been done. Some risk factors like, diabetes or low levels of…

Tumor markers are helpful biochemical markers that assist in screening and identifying individuals at high risk of developing cancer. They are also used when diagnosing specific types of tumors and monitoring the progress of specific tumors (McCance & Huether, 2013). Cells from benign tumors and malignant tumors produce tumor markers which can be present in blood, spinal fluid, and in urine (McCance & Huether, 2013). The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is an antigen that is secreted by the…

not always a bad thing for instance in HMEC cells stimulated cells have no effect to the body however stimulated SKRB3 cells cause cancer and so more damaging to the body. Unstimulated SKBR3 cells have less energy as they are resting cells and so don’t have a major effect on the body. The effect that CXCL12 treatment on pERK in SKBR3 cells is that due to the cancer cells being more absorbent it actually allows binding of proteins…

received in the past, while working in women’s health, was “During my monthly self breast examination I discovered a lump and it’s painful”. The patient was a 22-year-old Hispanic woman with a history of two miscarriages and presented post-op dilation and curettage. The patient had an aunt who passed away from breast cancer about a year before this visit and she was concerned that her lump could signify that she had breast cancer. Bickley and Szilagyi (2012) state location, quality, quantity,…

morbid level when she speaks about her confrontation with breast cancer. She speaks about how she was exposed to the “pink ribbon culture “ and was overwhelmed with crazy optimistic, inspirational phrases,where the word victim is considered taboo. But a merry outlook, she argues,will not cure cancer.This is when she first realized the negative effects of positive thinking. The author discusses this in detail on how it seems that some cancer support groups have no…

Over the summer, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having two direct relatives being diagnosed and currently having the disease, she decided to have genetic testing done. Many cancers are genetically passed down, so we had a very strong possibility that we could have the gene. If we did, my mother, aunt, and I would be almost guaranteed to have breast cancer during our lifetime. This could potentially change the lives of everyone in my family. We knew it was possibility, but we…