Oncology

The Role of a Nurse in Today’s Healthcare A seven- year- old boy fighting a war he didn’t sign up for is admitted into the hospital. He is pushed into a room that is larger than life and begins to worry, but then walks in his nurse. She knows his story, his battle and how to nullify his fears. As the doctors begin to discuss white blood cells and chemotherapy to his father, his nurse deciphers their medical language while reassuring him that he is strong enough to handle this fight. As the…

Carvacrol modulates instability of xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes and downregulates the expressions of PCNA, MMP-2, and MMP-9 during diethylnitrosamine-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in rats Covered By: Kiauna Pinnock & Weschester Junior Nine researchers in the fields of biochemistry, nanoscience & technology and medical biotechnology from various research institutes and universities came together with an interest in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). HCC is one type of the malignant tumors that…

board (IRB) of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The clinical and survival data of the study population (130 pancreatic cancer patients) was identified from a database that is prospectively maintained by the Department of Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. A waiver of consent was granted for the use of their specimen information for research. To identify new molecular markers for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and predictive markers for more effective…

Research question “What is an appropriate time for referring hospice care for solid cancer patients could enhance their quality of life?” From other research studies, we can see the result that hospice care could enhance cancer patient’ quality of life (Tsubamoto, 2014). However, most of the hospice care will be referred to patients when the condition turned critical. In addition, people often talked about that “wish can enter hospice care earlier.” Therefore, the research study would like…

There are many forms of cancer treatment. One of the most common treatment types is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy was previously defined as the use of chemicals, either intravenously or in pill form, to kill cancer cells. Radiation, also mentioned before, is a common treatment. Through the study of a little boy’s experience with radiation, positives and negatives of this treatment will be drawn. Jonathan Alava was a child who had cancer and underwent a special radiation treatment: proton therapy…

Most of the clinical studies done exclude patients that are older than seventy. A recent analysis from the Southwest Oncology Group shows that patients sixty-five years old and older represent 44% of patients with brain tumors. This is because of stringent age and general health eligibility criteria, the thought that older patients would get nothing out of clinical trials…

science are now being used to determine alternate ways to treat glioblastoma, and these treatments will hopefully be able to be used in the clinic eventually. References 1. Killock D (2015) Molecular classification of glioma. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 12: 502. 2. Eckel-Passow, JE et al. (2015) Glioma groups based on 1p/19q, IDH, and TERT promoter mutations in tumors. N. Engl. J. Med. 372:…

Capecitabine, an oral 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) analogue, is a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent (antimetabolite) of the pyrimidine analogue family. It is a basic cytostatic agent used in therapy of solid gastrointestinal cancers (as adjuvant therapy as well as in treatment of metastatic disease); besides, it is also widely used in therapy of metastatic breast cancer. Myocardial infarction is a rare adverse effect related to capecitabine therapy. We present case report of a female patient with no…

simple wounding, and repeating diseases. Albeit Hairy cell leukemia is obscure, it for the most part influences individuals around the age of 55. Men are five times more prone to create HCL than ladies. As indicated by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, an expected 48,610 individuals of all ages (27,880 men and 20,730 ladies) in the United States will be determined to have leukemia and HCL represents around 2% of all leukemia analyze. In all patients, the initial two years after…

Annotated Bibliography Introduction: This annotated bibliography will be based on the condition of breast cancer and its relevant treatment. Breast cancer is the most common female cancer and globally remains a major public health concern (Meade and Dowling 2012). The condition will be evaluated from a prospective of nursing care, the relevant treatment, and the management of patients with the condition. The electronic database CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE and…