Neoplasm

Nationwide Assessment of Trends in Surgery for Non-Malignant Colorectal Polyps in the United States From 2000-2013 Introduction Screening endoscopy (sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy) with polypectomy reduces the incidence of and mortality from colorectal cancer.1-4 Most colorectal polyps are removed with routine endoscopic resection, although polyps considered to be complex because of size, location or morphology are commonly resected surgically.5-7 An estimated 1% of all patients with a…

Breast cancer is a malignant neoplasm that is located within the cells of the breast. Normally, cells divide to grow, repair, and replace other cells. This cell division is controlled by DNA within the nucleus of every cell. However, when cells in the body start to grow out of control, cancer begins. A variety of factors, both genetic and environmental, may disrupt growth of regulatory pathways and result in the development of cancer. Major factors taken into consideration for breast cancer…

types of oncologic diseases, reduced amount of NK-cells activity may serve as prognostic criterion of metastasis, poor response to treatment and decrease in overall survival of cancer patients. Low NK-cells activity may also be a factor of malignant neoplasms…

at a certain point, is lost or not present. The figure at the right shows the difference in the process of the cell division between a normal cell to a cancer cell. The normal cell replication is even, while the cancer cell replication is nonstop. Neoplasm, an abnormal growth of a tissue, forms a mass referred to as a tumor. There are two types of tumors, malignant and benign. Malignant tumors are cancerous; they cause major health concerns as metastasis starts to take place. Malignant tumors…

Geography- Canada covers a large portion of the northern area of the North American continent, Also, Canada has an extremely varied landscape. In various locations, it has mountains, including the Rockies, with several that border the Atlantic. In contrast, flat plans make up other areas. The highest point in Canada is Mount Logan which is in the Yukon. Language- Canadians speak a multitude of languages. Canadians speak English and French as their preferred language. English and French, the…

lymphomas (NHL) that comprise approximately 10-15% of all newly diagnosed cases of NHL in the United State. According to the 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification schema, there are 18 subtypes of mature T- and natural killer (NK) cell neoplasms (Swerdlow 2008). Various subtypes of T- and NK-cell lymphomas are known to express the cell surface marker CD30; most notably, sACLC, in which CD30 expression is a hallmark of the diagnosis (Savage 2008). These difficult-to-treat lymphomas…

Generalized tonic clonic (GTC) seizures Generalized tonic clonic seizures are the classic form of childhood epilepsy, having four phases namely a) aura, b) tonic c) clonic d) post-ictal phase. Aura is a premonitory symptom, that occurs before the onset of seizure. It can be sensory, motor, visceral or autonomic. Only one third of children can describe aura. Aura is followed by tonic phase, in which the skeletal muscles undergo spasm. Muscular rigidity is the typical feature of antigravity…

Background Basal cell carcinoma can be defined as a malignant neoplasm in humans. Basal cell carcinoma originates in the areas between the follicles, subject to a spontaneous mutation. BCC’s can be organized into four categories: nodular, morpheaform, metatypical, and superficial. BCC can be treated generally through SMO inhibitors, for example, vismodegib (Ximena 398). Vismodegib is a molecule inhibitor of the Hedgehog (Hh) pathway (Pricl 389). The pathogenesis of BCC is the inapposite…

Caring for the human condition of suffering and pain has been a lifelong mission assigned to me by my grandmother, whose physical fragility and decline ignited the caregiver inside of me. It was her eyes that sparkled as she touched the family Bible or her crooked smiled at family members long since passed, that I knew suffering was only a temporary condition. This paper is a written declaration to the absence of suffering. It is the affirmation that suffering is the inability to see the…

Does Radioisotopes more harm than good Radioisotopes are isotopes of an element, which are radioactive. Radioactivity is a spontaneous transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanied by energetic radiation. In this process the radioactive atomic nucleus also known as the mother nucleus transform into a daughter nucleus that may belong to another element. This daughter nucleus will often be radioactive and decay to a new daughter nucleus until it ends up with a stable nucleus. Isotopes are…