Radiation oncology

Acute leukemia Did you know that there are “about 54,270 new cases of leukemia in the united states each year” according to (Nordquist). Only “about 24,450 people die from leukemia per year” according to (Nordquist). Leukemia is a blood marrow disease, there are certain symptoms for acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, treatment, and the stages. Acute myeloid leukemia, acute means that it spreads fast and myeloid is the types of cells it affects. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia,…

Peripheral giant cell granulomas (PGCG) are relatively uncommon reactive exophytic lesions of the oral cavity. Such a term is also synonymous to peripheral giant cell epulis, peripheral giant cell reparative granuloma though the word reparative granulomas is now considered obsolete in modern medicine because it’s not truly reparative.4,5 Clear aetiology of PGCG still remains elusive to and what is available currently are the laid hypothesis by various scholars for example local irritation from…

There is a very common type of cancer that affects 80% of Americans. It is the most common form of cancer in the US and the least malignant. This cancer is known as Basal cell carcinoma. Basal cell carcinoma also known as (BCC) is a type of skin cancer that effects the basal cells that line the epidermis. Basal cells duplicate and increase to the point where they penetrate the dermis (top layer of the skin). What causes the basal cells to react this way is usually being exposed to excessive…

Oncotarget is a weekly peer reviewed free to access medical journal which covers research on all aspects of oncology. The journal was established in 2010 and is weekly published by impact journal. The editor in chief are Andrel V. Gudkov who resides in Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Mikhail Blagosklonny. The journal is indexed and abstracted in index PubMed and PubMed central, Science Citation Index Expanded which is also known as SciSearch, Biological Abstracts, Embase, BIOSIS Previews,…

79-110 million people are currently infected and the worldwide risk of HPV infection at least once in their lifetime in both men and women is 50% (Handler et al., 2015). The risk of being infected with HPV is 24% after someone becomes sexually active if they are also under 25 years old (Foreman et al., 2012). Worldwide, cervical cancer is the 3rd most commonly diagnosed cancer and is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in women with a higher mortality rate in developing nations (Handler…

Prigerson’s Work Third, Dr. Holly Prigerson, who is currently the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Professor of Sociology in Medicine, and Director, Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, has research and authored studies focused on prolonged grief disorder, religious influences on end-of-life care, and “psychosocial and behavioral influences on medical care and care outcomes for patients and families confronting life-threatening…

Introduction: Age related change is one of the most common causes of vision loss around the world, affecting between 30 to 50 million people worldwide. As suggestive of the name, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is most prevalent in adults over the age of 60. Of the cases of AMD, about 90 percent are dry AMD for which no effective treatment exists [1]. The retina is the nerve tissue lining the inside of the eye which begins the conversion of light into vision. The macula,…

In a majority of the cases, HCC is associated with the underlying chronic liver disease, and it is diagnosed in advanced stage of disease when curative treatment options are not applicable. The curative treatments include radiofrequency ablation, liver transplantation, or tumor resection.Selection of a treatment modality is based on tumor size, location, extrahepatic spread, and underlying liver function. Surgical resection or liver transplantation is the first line treatment option for early…

Sorafenib: Sorafenib is used as targeted therapy for those patients affected by papillary thyroid cancer or medullary thyroid cancer. In a phase III trial, patients were subjected to a double blind, randomized experiment, in which patients were effectively treated with surgery or RAI previously. However, these eligible patients had distant metastatic sites, and were RAI-refractory, which are remnants of cancerous tumors found elsewhere in the body that were not treated in their previous…

Background: Emergency thoracotomy is a rare but lifesaving procedure in victims of chest trauma especially with penetrating wounds. In the United States, 9 percent of all trauma-related deaths occur from injuries to the thorax, of which one-third involve a penetrating mechanism. In an internal survey, 80% of cardiothoracic surgeons felt that special training is required and only 7% reported that they regularly practice emergency thoracotomy in arrest. We plan to develop an emergency thoracotomy…