National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

“Is There a Link Between Stress and Cancer?” It’s a common belief in women with breast cancer that stress caused their cancer. However, studies on this topic, including other types of cancer as well, have shown otherwise. Polly Newcomb, head of the cancer prevention program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, conducted a study on whether or not stress causes breast cancer. She used trained interviewers to ask healthy women and women with cancer about their environments,…

What if you found out you were feeding your family an endocrine disrupting substance that causes cancer? You would immediately throw it out and never buy it again. It would be a little hard to even figure that out if the labels are fibbed to hide ingredients from the buyer. Now what if you were spraying detergents or even putting on face products that had the same thing in both of them. It’s a little odd that detergents, what we clean our bathroom with and beauty products, what we put on our…

Critical Commentary 3 Cancer is the second leading cause of death (CDC, 2016), the urge of a better treatment pushed many Researchers to search for a better treatment. A new lung cancer drug has been found, better then chemotherapy and makes patient live longer. In this narrative article, many characters were part of it: The Writer of the article, Researchers, Patients, and the FDA. The setting was going back and forth between characters. There were many reasons for choosing this artifact,…

histopathologically from diffuse lower-grade astrocytomas by the presence of necrosis or micro vascular proli-feration[20].Among several tumor suppressor genes, p53 reveal to play a key role in the pathogenesis of many prevalent malignancies [21] including brain cancer. p53 has been displayed to exert tumor suppressor activity by impelling apoptosis , initiating the cell cycle [22], stimulating cell differentiation [23], and being involved in DNA repair pathways [24]. Mutations in the p53…

asks if they should consider CAM treatments for their breast cancer? As a health professional I will not recommend breast cancer patient to use CAM therapy as a supplemental for systemic treatments because the CAM therapy will not change the events of the breast cancer disease to patient. Also, the CAM therapy will not help patient to become better due to the studies which shows that there weren’t any signs of improvement with breast cancer patients by using CAM therapies. The patient should…

Does Coffee impact the risk of developing certain cancers? Article #1: Coffee Consumption and bladder cancer: a meta-analysis of observational studies Coffee consumption and bladder cancer have controversial results on whether or not they are related. This article informs that coffee may, or may not have an effect on the risk of developing bladder cancer. Bladder Cancer is known to be the most frequent cancer among the urinary tract. There has been research that shows that coffee intake has a…

When it came to cancer, I am at a low at risk percentage. I am at a healthy weight, I am very active due to walking and biking to and from school, I do not partake in smoking and I rarely drink on occasions. I have no family history regarding cancer, even though my age is at 1.0% risk I am still at advantage however my diet could end up being a major risk factor for me. For my diet it seems I need to add more plant sources of food, such as vegetables and fruits. Since my only source of fruit…

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Canadian women, with the majority of these deaths resulting from metastasis of cancer to other tissues. In 2015, an estimated 25,000 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 5,000 will suffer from cancer-related deaths. When breast cancer is isolated to the breast tissue, cure rates surpass 90%; nonetheless, as cancer cells settle into the adjacent or distant tissues, long-term survival is markedly declined. The…

CLINICAL QUESTION: In patients undergoing brain surgery for glioma resection, what is the risk of iatrogenic brain damage due to the surgery? SYNOPSIS: This meta-analysis included 90 studies published between 1990 to 2010 comprised of a total of 8,091 adult patients undergoing surgery for resection of supratentorial infiltrative gliomas. The study aimed to find out if intraoperative brain stimulation mapping (ISM) prior to resection of the glioma lowered the risk of neurologic damage seen with…

Colon cancer and rectal cancer is considered a disease developed in the tissues of the lower part of the gastrointestinal system. It typically starts in the inner lining of the large intestine as an uncontrolled growth of tissue called polyps. Together they are referred to as Colorectal Cancer. Colon cancer or bowl cancer originates in the terminal part of the large intestine whereas rectal cancer originates in the rectum which is the last portion of the large intestine to the anus. They are…