Radiation oncology

A Basic and Clinical Approach to Treating Glioblastoma Multiforme Introduction Glioblastoma (World Health Organization grade IV glioma; GBM) is the most prevalent and malignant primary brain tumor in adults, and it is predominantly drug and radiation resistant1. Unlike many other solid tumor types, GBM extensively invades the surrounding brain, but it rarely metastasizes to other organs. Beyond its invasive nature, there are a variety of other hallmarks of GBM, including increased…

ISU Part 1 Social Impact – Driverless Cars Driverless cars will change everything. (2016). Ft.com. Retrieved 2 December 2016, from https://www.ft.com/content/042a04f0-958c-11e6-a80e-bcd69f323a8b Page Deaton, J. & Hall-Geisler, K. (2016). How Driverless Cars Will Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2 December 2016, from http://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/trends-innovations/driverless-car4.htm Driverless cars are currently being developed and are a big step towards to having safer roads…

1 You are now all too familiar with the constant, humming noise of the machine keeping you alive. It is not a heart monitor, bypass machine, or a defibrillator. The noise you hear is the slow drip of chemotherapy medication into your bloodstream. You look around at the other visitors and recognize the characteristic hair loss, pale skin, dull stares, and labored breathing. You then painfully notice that just about everyone around you is 65 or older, making you the youngest patient in the room.…

illness or infirmity, or to heal a person, nursing is also providing expert advice and help; it is about assisting the person or patient to realize that they also deserve dignity and respect. Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system. In the oncology clinic where I work, patient relies on nurses all the time. Nurses are the next support person of the patient other than their families. Nurses provide guidance and assistance to patient without any judgement. For example, when a patient is…

management the issue through development management such as traditional radiation and chemo techniques. These techniques can ease symptoms and symptoms of the issue and make the person more comfortable. In sufferers where an research is made of early on illness, mesothelioma surgery treatment therapy can boost the rate of survival far beyond previous procedures in untreated illness. Treatment and Tumor…

Monnet E. Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery. 1st ed. Danvers, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013;573-576. 10. Traslavina RP, Aleman M, et al. Vet Med Today: Pathology in Practice. JAVMA 2013; Vol 242, No 12. 11. Withrow SJ, Vail DM. Small Animal Clinical Oncology. 5th ed. St Louis, Missouri: Saunders Elsevier; 2013. Tumors of the urinary system; p…

For example, women with or without family history who are diagnosed with breast cancer at younger age, which is under 40, will receive chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and hormone therapy verses older people above 70 probably will have surgery and hormone therapy and other treatments are being decided by the patient. This is because at older age there are many side effects caused my chemotherapy that can increases…

reproductive system and the urinary tract of both sexes. This wide field is further divided into 7 subspecialty areas that deal with female urology, kidney stones, male infertility, neurourology, pediatric urology, renal transplantation, and urologic oncology. Urologists undergo years of rigorous formal training and a number of certification exams before they can apply their specialty in the medical field. In the United States, prospective urologists must graduate from an approved medical school…

PET is a technique which is suitable to be used in oncology diagnosis of tumor or cancer. In oncology, fluorin-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) which is called FDG-PET is used as the tracer because it is a glucose analog that will be taken up by glucose-using cells and phosphorylated by hexokinase. This FDG-PET will be taken by tumor…

treatment of most types of cancer. Work done by biomedical scientists and engineers have allowed for the formulation of innovative and/or improved treatments that utilize modern technology in order to solve medical challenges faced in the field of oncology. Such advancements have made it possible to remove tumours that would otherwise have been a great risk to patient health if even an attempt was made to remove it through conventional surgery. The work done has also allowed for a larger…