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Cancer is the leading cause of death in the world and causes more than 13 percent of deaths each year (Gale). Cancer is a term for a disease that can take place in any part of the body. Doctors have come up with multiple risk factors that can lead to the development of cancer and a number of successful treatment and prevention strategies, many types of cancer can’t be cured and much still remains a mystery (Gale). There are many risk factors that are often linked to cancer. External factors…

1. Nursing Role: In what ways did the RN utilize critical thinking in each setting? What professional/unprofessional conduct did you observe while in these settings? The nurse demonstrated flexibility by being open to change of the treatment plan. For example, a patient was scheduled for a lipid panel and was supposed to be fasting, but was eating prior to her scheduled appointment due to discomfort. The nurse was flexible by rescheduling her lipid panel and adjusting her treatment plan…

Christopher Hitchens wrote the “Topic of Cancer” along with many other passages that are well-known. Hitchens in this particular article gets diagnosed with cancer, after long considerations he had decided to try chemotherapy, along with any other cancer patient Hitchens struggled through the stages of his condition. Families everywhere have been faced with someone they know trying to battle out the prolonged illness or the deadly disease best known as cancer. Cancer patients whether they…

There is No Cure Cancer affects millions of people 's lives around the world. Over 1,665,540 people were diagnosed and 585,720 people died from cancer in 2014 (“Cancer Facts”). Cancer owns the future because there is no cure. Many people have devoted their entire lives to finding a cure for cancer. Billions of dollars have been put into research. Unfortunately, everyone has come up short in finding a definite way of curing cancer. Cancer has three main treatments: chemotherapy, radiation, and…

sorry, it’s cancer,” a phrase too many in my family have heard. From such a young age, I learned of its horrendous repercussions. My cousin was diagnosed with Leukemia when she was only three years old, cursed to never experience a normal childhood. She traded Barbie dolls and plastic playsets for IV needles and chemotherapy. I learned from her how to be strong no matter what curveballs are thrown. Too many simple tasks are taken for granted, but they can be easily snatched away when cancer…

Bone Metastasis Bone metastasis is cancer that spreads to the bones from another part of the body. A person may have bone metastasis in one bone or in more than one bone. Cancer that spreads to the bones is different from cancer that starts in the bones (primary bone cancer). Bone metastasis is more common than primary bone cancer. The spine is the most common area for bone metastasis. Other common areas include the: • Hip bone (pelvis). • Ribs. • Skull. • Long bones of the arm or…

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evaluated as an indicator of normal biological process, pathogenic process, or pharmacological responses to therapeutic intervention (Biomarkers Definitions Working, 2001). Although great efforts have been made in the last decade to discover novel cancer biomarkers for use in clinical practice, a striking number of these efforts fail to make it into the clinic (Fuzery, Levin, Chan, & Chan, 2013). One of the causes of this failure of translation could be the limited knowledge that scientists…

Targeted Cancer Therapy Since researchers learn about some of the differences that help cancer cells grow and thrive, it led them to “target” these differences through the development of drugs. Targeted therapy is basically a cancer treatment that uses medical drugs in curing the patient (medical drugs such as: Imatinib (Gleevec), Gefitinib (used in certain lung cancers), and Erlotinib (usually used pancreatic cancer). Clinical trials are performed in order to see whether targeted cancer therapy…

Emma Robinson Eden Newman Honors English 3 October 2016 Cancer Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in parts of the body. Cancer results from an abnormal growth of malignant cells. We also have genes in our body which control how all cells work. Each gene has a certain job or task. If one gene has abnormalities or does not function properly, all of the other genes are changed. This creates an abnormal protein. Abnormal proteins sendoff different…