Pancreatic Cancer Cancer is one of the most executioner diseases. The National Cancer Institute defines cancer as the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues. “Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, which is made up of trillions of cells. Normally, human cells grow and divide to form new cells as the body needs them. When cells grow old or become damaged, they die, and new cells take their place.” There are many reasons why people get…
contracting cancer. Unfortunately, that number has increased in the last few years to one in three, with reports predicting that number will increase to one in two individuals contracting cancer by 2020 (Faguet, 2005). The rate by which this deadly disease has grown in the past seventy years is astonishing, but what are the causes behind this raging epidemic? The most immediate causes relate to diet, exercise, and the environment. Americans increased their sugar consumption from 12 pounds of…
struggles with the disease and what can be done to help people living with of trimethylaminuria. Nwankpa said growing up with the disease she was bullied and isolated because of her disorder. People believed that she was a dirty person rather than someone living with a disorder and often found herself, like many others, at the center of an isolated world. Her isolation and bullying eventually lead to her development of anxiety. (Nwankpa, 2016) Raising general awareness about the disease may help…
Summary: Porphyria is an uncommon, genetically caused disease, which makes the blood pigment in hemoglobin to not properly be changed into material for your body to use. The title porphyria originates from the modern latin term porphyrin which are pigments containing heme or chlorophyll with molecules that have a flat ring of four connected heterocyclic groups and occasionally a metal atom. There are two different forms of porphyria; acute porphyria and cutaneous porphyria. Acute porphyria…
leading cause of death in the United States and affects over 29 million Americans. Of those with the disease in 2012, over 8 million were undiagnosed. Cases of diabetes rise yearly, with 8.3% of the population being diagnosed in 2010 and 9.3% with the disease in 2012. (Statistics about Diabetes, n.d.) Genetic predisposition, environmental factors, obesity, physical inactivity, some endocrine diseases and some medications can cause diabetes. While there are factors patients may not be able to…
Three diseases discussed in Survival of the Sickest are hemochromatosis, diabetes, and favism. Hemochromatosis is an intriguing, rare disease, and was a cause of Dr. Sharon Moalem’s pursuit in becoming a scientist and a physician in the first place. It was both interesting and important to learn about hemochromatosis, since it was a disease about iron; which so many people believe that more is better. However, in Survival of the Sickest, it’s proven that like everything else, too much of…
Introduction Believe it or not, there are many different treatment options for an incurable disease. Psoriatic Arthritis is a form of arthritis which is caused by an overactive immune system that stiffens, swells, and causes tremendous pain in joints throughout the body. “Psoriatic Arthritis is most common in adults between the ages of 30 and 50 but can develop in a person of any age, including children” (Psoriatic Arthritis, WebMD, 2014). This form of arthritis can cause permanent damage…
accidents, murder, drowning, overdosing, and illnesses. Then the number one reason is cancer. Leukemia is the 3rd leading deadliest cancer and kills 160 people each day, more than six people per hour and 58,000 people per year. Leukemia is a really bad disease and kills many people each year. Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. There are also many symptoms to leukemia. You also don’t know if you will survive or not when you have the cancer leukemia. Leukemia is usually thought of as a…
Christian George Acevedo published in the Science Times mentions that gene therapy can bring improve lives of people with Cystic Fibrosis. Gene therapy is a method in which a vector ‘virus’ carries genes and infect the host cells to treat and prevent diseases. The article says that cystic fibrosis is a rare condition that affects only 1 out of 3,300 people throughout the world. This disorder is caused by genetic mutations known as ‘cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, (CFTR)’.…
Disease Name and other derivatives Lesch-Nyhan disease is a genetic disorder which causes neurological and behavioral abnormalities. Overproduction of uric acid is another clinical feature associated with this disease. The disease is also known as Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, HPRT Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyl Transferase) deficiency syndrome and X-linked hyperuricemia. Michael Lesch and William Nyhan provided the first detailed clinical description of Lesch-Nyhan disease in 1964. Gene and Locus and…