My summer was as terrible as cancer. That's right, as terrible as cancer! Literally. Here are just a few reasons why my summer was horrible. My great grandma died of cancer, my dad had a heart attack. My volleyball coach died of cancer. My guinea pig died and I was in a car crash. What a dreadful summer. I was in the school waiting for the last seconds to count down before summer would begin. Wahoo! I was thinking about what I would do and saying that this is going to be the best summer ever.…
July 5, 1940, in Monroe Washington. He has a brother, Martin Close. He had a mom and a dad. His hobbies and interests were creating art. His mom brought him to all of the art shows and stuff. His dad died when he was 11, and his mom fell with breast cancer. Close also had a kidney infection and landed him in bed for almost a year. So he had trouble doing art for almost a year. Chuck took up the…
What is Cancer? Cancer is the name for a group of more than 100 diseases. Although there are many kinds of cancer, all cancers start because abnormal cells grow out of control. Untreated cancers can cause serious illness and death. There is no known cure for any cancer, however there are multiple types of treatments. And Cancer can be overcome, it is just not 100 percent chance that it will be overcome every time. Normal cells grow, divide to make new cells, and die in an formattable way.…
What does not destroy us makes us stronger. In ways we could become stronger, but not experiencing what happens in life can make us weak. The Black Plague is one prime example of this. People were dying, but we recovered from the plague and it did make the people stronger and have more knowledge of illnesses. We recovered from the plague and have improved immune systems than before. Though it could go either way. What almost destroys us can make us weak. An example of this could be cheetahs.…
The epidemiology initiative, Children’s Healthy Living program, spans twelve jurisdictions. In the Nutrition Support Shared Resource at the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, I conduct nutrition assessment on indigenous children ages two through eight afflicted by an alarmingly high incidence of obesity and metabolic syndrome. The depressing health disparity leaves some participants with diabetes before fourth…
Upon development, the nervous system wires itself completely – an impressive feat considering the millions of connections and neurons in the body. However perhaps even more impressive is the ability of the nervous system to restore neuronal connections after injury. This is particularly advanced in frogs, fish and invertebrates as once an axon is cut in the central nervous system, the regeneration allows full functional recovery whereas in the mammalian central nervous system full recovery is…
However, they are also of interest in cancer as they have been shown to affect its many aspects (Pich et al., 2013). The mechanism that underpins the effectiveness of statins for hypercholesterolemia is the inhibition of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, an enzyme that…
is consumed orally and has quickly turn out to be one of the most prescribed medications. Urologists and non-urology professionals usually provide this medication to their sufferers for the cure of erectile dysfunction. Everyday Cialis is the first oral remedy that has been clinically confirmed and tested to advance the exceptional of erections. Clinical…
1. What is the most likely diagnosis of the underlying disease in this patient (5 marks)? Follicular Lymphoma. 2. Describe the process of autologous transplantation for the treatment of this patient’s disease. (5 marks). Stem cells are removed from patient and stored in a freezer. Patient will then receive high dose chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy to get rid of circulating tumor cells in the blood. The removed stem cells are transfused, replacing the destroyed tissue and…
Imagine being completely capable of doing everything you love then one day having it all taken away the next day. Girish Gogia loved his designing job and loved to deep sea dive. All in one day he became 90% paralyzed after a deep sea diving accident. His condition has no cure and his chances of survival are slim, which made him very devastated. After months of surviving, he realized there was a reason that he was still alive, he just did not know why yet. Girish went to his doctor and said…