...Breast Cancer COM/156 May 3, 2012 Breast Cancer Breast Cancer is the most common cancer that women may face in their lifetime. It can occur at any age, but is more likely to occur after the age of 40 and as we get older. Breast cancer is an unrestrained growth of breast cells, which take places as a result of modifications, or abnormal changes in the genes, that is responsible for stabilizing the growth of cells and keeping them healthy. The genes are in each cell’s nucleus, which acts as the “control room” of each cell. Normally, the cells in our bodies replace themselves through a systematic process of cell growth: healthy new cells take over as old ones die out. But over time, transformations can turn on certain genes and turn off others in a cell. That changed cell gains the ability to keep dividing without control or order, producing more cells just like it and forming a tumor. Breast Cancer affects many women during their lives. Also, there are a number of risk factors that can cause this disease, besides inherited traits. Because of certain factors, some woman may have a greater chance of developing breast cancer than others, whether it is by heredity or not. As you get older your best defense is to know about this disease and learn what you can do about it and save your life. A risk factor is anything that affects your chances of getting breast cancer. There are different kinds of risk factors to be aware of. Some factors, such as a person's age or race, can not...
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...Cancer: Disability Paper Cancer. This single word consisting of six letters can change someone’s life in a heartbeat. Imagine yourself or a loved one sitting in a doctor’s office, awaiting the results to see if cancer is the diagnosis. You’re sitting in silence holding each other’s hand, watching the clock tick slowly before hearing a faint knock on the door. As the doctor walks in, his face says it all and he does not need to say a single word. It’s hard to listen to what he is saying, because all you can think about is, “my life is over,” “this can’t be happening to me,” and “I’m dying”. Those were some of the exact same thoughts my dad was thinking when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer about thirteen years ago. Fortunately for himself and our family, he is now cancer free. At that time of the diagnosis, I was young and did not understand the depth of cancer, and that’s why I decided to write this paper. Cancer doesn’t care about your age, race, or religion, but when it strikes someone you know, it hits home. In the book, “ A World Without Cancer,” Dr. Margaret Cuomo (2012) describes cancer as, “Malignant tumors often look crablike, their irregular extensions resembling crustacean claws” (p.23). What exactly is cancer? There are over 100 different types of cancers such as: breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, and kidney cancer, to just name a few. According to the American Cancer Society (2014),” although there are many kinds of cancer, all cancers start because...
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...Breast cancer is a form of cancer that is known to be the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among American Women according to the National Cancer Institute. This is known to affect at least one out eight women that live to be the age of 80. My research will be to help other individuals develop a better understanding of what breast cancer is and what it entails. First of all, there is a personal experience of my own that I would like to share. My grandma was a survivor of breast cancer, she fought the battle for 14 years before it finally took complete control and she was unable to keep up the fight. Breast cancer what does this entail and how to deal with the aspects of breast cancer? First of all, it may be essential to explain what breast cancer is so that it will help us to what it is and how it may develop. Cancer is a result of a mutation or a series of mutations, abnormal changes, in the Genes that is responsible for the regulation of the growth within cells and keeping them Healthy. A cell’s nucleus consists of genes that act as a “control room” for each cell. The cells normally replace themselves through an orderly process of cell growth. Healthy New cells will take over the old ones as they die out. However, mutations will or can turn on particular genes and turn off others in a cell. When this happens, the changed cell will gain the ability to keep dividing without order or control, which produces more cells just like it and form a tumor...
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...Breast Cancer Tonia Maraden CM220-51 November 23, 2012 Breast Cancer Debra Wheeler is a wonderful person and a personal friend that works with me at my part time job. She is the Executive Assistant to the CEO. In January of last year, Debra Wheeler was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. She ended up having to have single mastectomy since the cancer was only in one of her breast. She then later had to have the breast the removed and reconstructed. The way they did it was take the skin and soft tissues from the belly and use it to reconstruct her new breast. Debra’s healthy body and her positive spirit helped her to beat the cancer, now she has been cancer free for a year. She is a very strong willed person and that is why I believe is the reason that she is still here today others have not been so lucky or gave up the fight too early. With this in mind, Debra has discovered along with many breast cancer survivors that the oral contraceptives for many years were a possible cause to the reason they were diagnosed with cancer. There are more than one reason has to why we should support breast cancer. Breast cancer is something that will or has affected us all in one way or another. I. Here are some statics on breast cancer: A. A woman is diagnosed with Breast Cancer every 2.5 Minutes. 1. Worldwide, breast cancer...
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...Summary of My Chronic Disease Risk Assessment Chronic illness: An illness that persists for a long period of time. The term "chronic" comes from the Greek chronos, time and means lasting a long time. A chronic illness is one lasting 3 months or more, by the definition of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. In ancient Greece, the "father of medicine" Hippocrates distinguished diseases that were acute (abrupt, sharp and brief) from those that were chronic. This is still a very useful distinction subacute has been coined to designate the mid-ground between acute and chronic. “What is Lung Cancer?” Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. Normal lung tissue is made up of cells that are programmed by nature to create lungs of a certain shape and function. Sometimes the instructions to a cell go haywire and that cell and its offspring reproduce wildly, without regard for the shape and function of a lung. That wild reproduction can form tumors that clog up the lung and make it stop functioning as it should. Because of the large size of the lungs, cancer may grow for many years, undetected, without causing suspicion. In fact, lung cancer can spread outside the lungs without causing any symptoms. Adding to the confusion, the most common symptom of lung cancer, a persistent cough, can often be mistaken for a cold or bronchitis. What is cancer? Cancer is not one disease, but a group of diseases that have in common the uncontrolled...
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...to attention. The article discusses and explains the research behind how women with diabetes are more likely to have a higher staged breast cancer than women who do not have diabetes. The study was tried on more than thirty eight thousand women who have breast cancer. Out of that total a little over six thousand women had diabetes. According to the article, “Breast cancer patients with diabetes were significantly more likely to present with advanced stage breast cancer than those without diabetes.” The researches statistics proved that unlike women without diabetes those with diabetes were fourteen percent more likely to get stage two breast cancer, twenty one percent more likely to get Stage three and sixteen percent more likely to get stage four. However, this was not the only finding that I found to be extremely important. The article also discussed how those with diabetes are also more likely to have the cancer spread throughout their bodies causing lymph node metastases, and larger tumors. The article really raised my attention because many members of my own family including my personal family have diabetes so this topic hit home for me. I was intrigued to find that there was a correlation between the two since both the disease and the cancer are so different and affect such different parts of your body. I don’t think that many people would ever assume that having diabetes could take your risk of cancer severity even higher. I really enjoyed reading this article because...
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...A. Explain how your own perceptions about quality of life and health promotion might affect your care for a dying patient with a lingering illness such as cancer My perceptions about quality of life are that every one lives with happiness and enjoyment in a health way not only on physical but also on mental. Happiness and enjoyment of life may be various, because different people have their unique expectation about their lives to meet their defined happiness and enjoyment based one their own education, culture, religion and experience. Those factors affect their satisfaction in some degree about their lives. To be simple, quality of life is to live with healthy, emotional and social wellbeing (Quigley and Watts Ltd). Health promotion is to promote and enhance people to improve the factors that affect their quality of life. Health promotion helps people with troubles to increase control and overcome the difficulties in order to achieve quality of life. It searches all the resources available from our society, community, neighborhood and friends to change the environment to gain quality of life (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). People with end of life diseases such as cancer normally suffering a lot from physical, emotional and social, such as pain, dysfunctional various organs cause them losing appetite and energy, feeling hopeless, depressive, isolated, etc. At this point, for those dying people with the torture of cancer does not mean they can not have quality...
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...It had been a long year battling Breast Cancer, all the doctor appointments, chemotherapy and then the radiation therapy, Grannie was exhausted. She just wanted to sleep all day, she was worn out. The family was told that she would bounce back after a month or so, the radiation therapy would wear off, then she would be back to herself in no time, but that never happened. She had told us that she was going to the doctor that afternoon; he had called to ask her to come in. That is never a good thing. My aunt called and said that Grannie wanted a family meeting at seven that night, when my husband asked what was going on she just said “she just wants us all together so she can talk to us all at the same time. She doesn’t want to have to make a bunch of phone calls.” It was then, everyone knew it was not going to be good, but our first thought was the breast cancer had returned. Who would have ever imagined what she was about to tell us. The family was sitting in the living room and was in total shock when she explained that the doctors told her she had leukemia. They did not know when she contracted it; there was no way of knowing how long she had it. She said they told her that she would need extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments to battle the leukemia, but there were no guarantees that she could beat it. She sat there with tears running down her face when she said, “I am just too tired. I cannot fight this battle, I’m too weak. I’m sorry and I love you all, please know...
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...teaching subject that I decided to present on for this project is on the importance of screening students for obesity. In this presentation the school nurse will learn how to calculate and be able to refer those students that are affected or in danger of becoming obese, to a physician for help, further testing, assessments and recommendations or even treatment. As we all know obesity is an epidemic Problem. It is a problem not only here in the United States but also all through out the world. The problem is so terrible that even in third world countries that are poor there is an obesity problem. Why is there such a problem? There are many issues or factors that are the cause for obesity. It can be a decrease in physical activity. Another factor is having a sedentary lifestyle, which means we do not have normal physical activity. Basically, at this time our jobs and lifestyles have us sitting around for long periods of time with out or with very little physical activity. This is terrible for our health because we basically do not burn any calories or use any energy. We over eat and do nothing to burn those meals. There is also the issue of low cost food that is not very nutritious actually it is incredibly unhealthy. The cost of healthy food is higher, which in some way is what motivates many low-income families to buy or purchase lower priced foods. They are not able to afford the healthier options for food and instead opt out for fast food restaurants or quick drive thru meals...
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...Abstract This paper analyzes what epigenetics precisely is as well as the effects of epigenetics on our human body throughout time. I further my analysis by going in depth on the effects epigenetics can have on a child going all the way back to their grandparent’s medical history and life experiences. The different articles provide a better understanding on how epigenetics can impede a person drastically, but also ensuring us that scientist are working efficiently to find out ways to manipulate the epigenome. This paper examines my own personal Family History Questionnaire findings and how they are relative to epigenetics. The last part of this paper explores a Bluzone Life Expectancy Questionnaire which identifies the longevity of my life by asking me various questions about everyday experiences and how I can improve my health. Life expectancy Epigenetics is defined as superior to the genome (Epigenetics, 2007). It simply commands the genome on how to work, how much to work and when to react in a specific way. The epigenome tells our cells precisely what type of skin, hair type, and heart we should have. Twins may be born exactly comparable with the same gene structure, but the epigenome is the part of a person’s gene structure that is altered from the day they are born. A genome can be linked to a computer’s hardware that makes up a computer while the epigenome is seen as the software the runs the computer entirely. Epigenome can change a cell just by a person’s diet...
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...Killer Cancer is known as an unbiased killer that knows no race, age or sex of its victims. Doctor Nader (n.d.) states, “The disease lung cancer is known as the number one cause of cancer related deaths in the United States.” (Lung Cancer Information). Lung cancer takes millions of lives each year, sometimes without the slightest warning. According to "The Green Sanctuary" (2009), “Cancer may often be discovered during a routine chest X-ray or CT scan as a small solitary mass.” (What is Lung Cancer?). There are various stages of lung cancer; its treatment options and effects of the disease can impact the individual and their loved ones in many ways. There are many options offered for people diagnosed with lung cancer. Many times when people are faced with something as serious as a deadly cancer, they may not know where to begin to look for help. The effect lung cancer has on an individual is defined by the severity of the cancerous symptoms and the treatment options chosen. As stated in "The Green Sanctuary" (2009), " Symptoms of lung cancer vary depending on where and how widespread the tumor is. Warning signs of lung cancer are not always present or easily identified” (What is Lung Cancer?). In the words of Doctor A. Wax (2005-2012), “A person with lung cancer may have no symptoms, nonspecific symptoms, symptoms related to the cancer or even symptoms related to metastasis.” (Understanding Lung Cancer-Diagnosis and Treatment). Most...
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...many other problems in a teen. Marijuana abuse in teens is often not recognized when something can be easily done about it. Parents need to be more involved in their children’s lives and make them aware of what marijuana does to their body and the consequences of having/smoking it. In this paper I’m going to explain why teenagers use drugs and what the major consequences for using it are and also how it can affects a person life. What is marijuana? Marijuana is a green, brown or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). You may hear some people call it by street names such as Mary Jane, pot, weed, gangster, or chronic. Marijuana is used in many ways. The most common method is smoking it rolled into a cigarette called a “joint” or “nail”. It also can be use in a water pipe called a bong. One can even use it in tea or mix it with food. It was stated in a 2009 survey called Monitoring the Future, about 7 percent of 8th graders, 16 percent of 10th graders, and 21 percent 12th graders had used marijuana in the month before the survey. Marijuana use declined from the late 1990s through 2007, with a decrease in past-year use of more than 20 percent in all three grades combined from 2000 to 2007. I never knew how many teenagers are using these drugs and they and most are just entering high school. I feel that most teens lack confidence and give into peer pressure easily especially when it come to being accepted into certain groups...
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...Century: Testicular Cancer Testicular cancer occurs in the testicles(testes) which are located inside the scrotum.The cells begin to change and grow fast forming a mass or tumor. The cells also invade the bloodstream and lymph systems and spread leading to tumors in other areas of the body. Also it is not clear what causes testicular cancer. Doctors only know that testicular cancer occurs when healthy cells become altered. Compared to other types of cancer testicular cancer is rare. Testicular cancer accounts for 1% of all male cancers. Although most researchers and scientists of cancer have argued testicular cancer is not a common form of cancer , after closer examinations...
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...the significant risks in smoking cigarettes. With nearly twenty percent of the United States’ population currently smoking, it is clear that this recreational habit has become an epidemic (American Cancer Society, 2011). However, I believe that even with mandated health risks printed on packages, countless numbers of anti-smoking ads on billboards, and the spamming of our television sets since 1998, individuals still refuse to kick the habit. With cigarettes being extremely addictive and the majority of smokers are not considerate to others, I believe cigarettes should be considered a drug. I hope discussing these three negative effects of cigarette smoking will help to re-evaluate a person’s stance on this completely legal drug; realizing that smoking is a bad decision for everyone. Besides the obvious possibility of death, one should be concerned with the likelihood of lung cancer, a diminished physical appearance, and the inadvertent effects on women, infants, and unborn children. With the obvious health concerns, this topic hits close to home. Two days ago my uncle passed away from smoking induced cancer. He went to the doctor since he was feeling under the weather two weeks prior, and came home with a cancer diagnosis and only two weeks to live. I had looked up to this man my entire life, and possibly if cigarettes were a...
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...Introduction to Biology May 9, 2013 A New System for Cancer Detection This article summarizes a new technique that would allow for cancer cell detection without being invasive to a person’s body. It states that currently, human cancer cell detection is conducted through a person being cut on or biopsied. This new procedure allows for humans bodily fluids to be utilized in detecting cancer cells. P.Chandra states, “While current cancer-diagnosis methods rely on an invasive biopsy” to relay that many may not feel the need or desire to undergo biopsy, a type of simplistic surgery, for cancer cell detection. This article relates to this course by the basic information I learned about the plasma membrane known as cell membranes. Cell membranes are lipid bilayers that consist mainly of phospholipids. However, when it comes to cancer cell membranes they tend to have more anionic lipids than normal cells. Our course text in Chapter 3 talks about the “Cell Structure” and gives us the break down on “What, Exactly is a cell? The Structure of Cell Membranes, Introduction of Prokaryotic Cells, etc.”. This article does not provide enough background information to help me understand this article. In my opinion, I would have like to read more about the differences between the normal cells and cancer cell membranes and how they are made up. This article caught my attention due to my family member surviving stage four cancer twice. Her survival made me think if early detection for...
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