Oral cancer

however, “Smoking can cause cancer; and not just lung cancer, although that is the type that immediately comes to mind. Oral cancer, throat cancer, and even pancreatic cancer can spring from a history of smoking. Tobacco use in the form of chewing tobacco can also cause cancer in the gums, lips, and tongue. Other cancers that are often linked to smoking include liver, bladder, uterine, and prostate cancer” (Jansen). Using tobacco has direct links to many different forms of cancers and other…

Surgery Surgery has not any relevant role in the treatment of lymphomas13, it just have a role on the diagnosis (obtaining of biopsy material) and prognosis. This is cause lymphomas are blood malignancies so them can be in many places and some cancer cells or small tumor can’t be even seen so remove them with surgery is impossible. However, surgery sometimes can be used in splenic or hepatic lymphomas,…

devil is an apex predator and the largest marsupial carnivore. Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) is a highly aggressive, transmissible cancer that is decimating the Tasmanian devil population and threatening the species with extinction in as little as thirty years (Brüniche-Olsen et al., 2016). The disease first showed up in 1996 and a second transmissible cancer in devils was discovered in 2014. This disease has since declined the population 95% in some areas while spreading to more than 80% of…

Palliative Care unit at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of Houston is a renowned palliative care unit, which opened in 2002. This unit provides a holistic approach to help ease the suffering of cancer patients…

Daniel Rudman performed an experiment in 1990 revealing the effects of growth hormone in elderly patients. Dr. Rudman hypothesized that administering biosynthetic growth hormone to elderly patients would increase lean body mass, decrease adipose tissue, and thicken the skin. To begin the experiment Dr. Rudman identified a baseline for his twenty-one subjects over six months by noting their IGF-1 levels, insulin like growth hormone factor (an indirect measurement of growth hormone from the liver)…

Sun is the center of the universe. Sunlight is essential to all living organisms on the earth. However excess exposure to the sun may causes immense damage to living organisms as follows. Skin cancer (1) is caused due to mutations in the DNA of our skin cells. These mutations cause the cells to create big cancer cells in the body. Most of the damage caused to your DNA cells are mostly due to UV rays. The causes to damage of cataracts (3) are looking into the sun directly which help the UV rays…

The Bodies exhibition showcases preserved human bodies dissected to display bodily system. The exhibit is set up so that one started at the skeletal system. The skeletal system showed the skeletal, the whole body bone include the ribs, large bone call femur and small bone call fibula, adult skull and infant skull. They also showed the prone bone that showed the bone disease as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Second system I learn is muscular system, the muscular system showed the muscular…

because of cancer. One in eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. It is also true that most women won’t recognize their symptoms until the cancer has grown into a life-threatening tumor. Understanding and recognizing those symptoms can literally be the difference between life and death. Cancer is the second highest cause of death in the US. Nearly everyone has lost a love one to it. And yet to many, it is as mysterious as it is deadly. What is breast cancer really?…

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most common cancer for women worldwide in 2012(1). In Canada, 17,000 women are living with ovarian cancer, and it is ranked the fifth most common cancer for Canadian Canadian women in 2013(2). According to the recently released surveillance report, 2,700 new cases will be diagnosed in 2014 in Canada?(3). Moreover, it is the most fatal women’s cancer, with the average of 45% 5-year survival rate comparing to 89% of the survival rate for women with breast…

This essay aims to discuss a patient case scenario based on the information provided as well as existing literature on oral health. Ben, a 15-year-old adolescent patient, presented at the AIH clinic for the first time for an oral examination. He mentions having pain in certain areas while eating sweets, and he also states that he has not visited an Oral Health Practitioner in 3 years. A good starting point for assessing and managing individual patients’ situation is by obtaining a good medical…