Critique Paper Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a type of breast cancer that when tested for estrogen receptors (ER-), progesterone receptors (PR-), and HER2 (HER2-) they all come negative. The results that came out negative for all three means the cancer is triple-negative. However, these negative results mean that the growth of the cancer is not sustained by the estrogen, progesterone hormones, and the HER2 receptors. Therefore, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cannot be treated with
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Cancer is when abnormal cells have uncontrolled growth in a human body, (Cancer Treatment Centers of America (2015). There are many types of cancers that cause harm to the human body. One of the types of cancer that causes harm to human is breast cancer. Breast Cancer has a specific body area that it develops. The statistics for breast cancer is high among males and females. There are symptoms and possible risk factors of breast cancer. There are treatments that currently exist to help treat breast
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Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatic cancer is a disease of the digestive system, the causes of which are still unknown. It causes the DNA of cells within the pancreas to mutate and grow uncontrollably. These mutated cells continue to live and reproduce past the time when a normal cell would have died. As these cells grow and accumulate they form a tumor in the pancreas. Symptoms of pancreatic cancer include: jaundice, pain in the upper and middle abdomen, pain in the back, weight loss, loss of appetite
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be diagnosed with breast cancer. This raises many questions; one question would be why women aren’t getting their mammograms done? Another question is, who is really getting their mammograms done today? The third question would be, what are the risks of mammograms? The answers to these questions might be the reasons why mammograms are affecting women and why breast cancer is still an issue in today’s society. The first source that is presented is “Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening” by the Susan
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research, our team is very close to finding a cure to cancer, but we require funding. Our cure targets the uncontrolled replication of cancer cells because eliminating this eliminates tumors and the spread of cancer throughout the body. This has been done before through a class of drugs called mitotic inhibitors. Mitotic inhibitors stop or limit the replication of a cell and shut it down. (NIH) One drug called Vincasar is administered for cancer and damages the genetic material of the cell. That brings
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Ted Talk 1 Can we eat to Starve Cancer? William LI 20:02 https://www.ted.com/talks/william_li#t-193777 William LI, speaker of Can We Eat to Starve Cancer, talks about how angiogenesis, the growing of our blood vessels, can be controlled to stop cancer cells from mutating or block tumors from growing. In our body we have 60,000 miles worth of blood vessels, in which they can adapt to any environment they are in. Blood vessels don’t grow in adults except for when they line the uterus, create the
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invasive cancer according to Breastcancer.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information about breast cancer to those who are affected. With a population of 157 million women in the United States, that means around 20 million women have a chance of getting affected by breast cancer. However due to technology and medical advances, there has been a decline in mortality rates due to breast cancer. Since 1989, there has been an increase in breast cancer survivorship (“U.S. Breast Cancer
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According to recent cancer research in the United Kingdom there are more than 200 different types of cancer. The Wellness: Concepts and Applications 8th edition text book defines cancer as a disease caused by uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in an area of the body. The National Cancer Institute states that the lifetime risk of men and women developing cancer is approximately 40.4%. In fact 2011 data records show that there are an estimated 13 million people living with a type of cancer in the United
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INTRODUCTION Male breast cancer is practically “unheard of”, with only 1% of breast cancer patients being male. The topic I researched was male breast cancer and how it might affect the body and mind. What I researched about was breast cancer itself, risks of it happening, symptoms, what genetics have to do with it and how stress affects the human body. BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE BREAST CANCER Breast cancer is a malignant group of cancer cells that surrounds and spreads to its surrounding tissues. If
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This puts both doctors and cancer victims alike in a tough situation. Cancer cells are becoming more and more resistant to our primary treatment. Our efforts to kill cancer cells are only killing off the weakest cells. Tumor masses typically consist of mixed proportions of malignant cells, some of which are drug-sensitive while others are drug-resistant. Treatment kills only the drug-sensitive cells, but leaves behind a higher percentage of drug-resistant cells. As the tumor begins to grow again
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