improves circulation, which in return will improve the functionality of the heart and lungs. Exercising, also increases concentration level, and sense of self control and prevents high BP and cholesterol. It decreases the risk of various cancer including, breast, ovary and colon, and results in better sleep (wsupgdocs 2011). Another alternative for morbid obesity, is bariatric surgery, which reduce excess body mass by 50- 75%. Furthermore post- surgery, it maintains the weight loss for up to 16 years
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suffering through a battle with cancer, technical advancements in radiation treatment represent hope and a chance for a healthy, cancer-free life. But when these highly complex machines used to treat cancers go awry or when nedical technicians and doctors fail to follow proper safety procedures, it results in suffering worse than ailments radication aims to cure. A litany of horror stories underscore the consequences when hospitals fail to provide safe radiation treatment to cancer patients. In many of these
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How Stress Affects Our Health November 25, 2015 How Stress Affects Our Health In life there is not one human being who has not felt the anxiety or heart pounding feeling of being stressed. I believe this is a silent disease that slowly takes over one’s life one way or another. According to Kiev (1974), from a medical standpoint stress is just a nervous tension because life is being lived too quickly; therefore, the energy is being wasted. Stress can wear an individual out and cause heath
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Medicine The advance in genomic technology may help with the fight of cancer. Even though scientist and doctors don’t know about the patient’s acceptance of personalized medicine and wide spread of genetic testing. The current study of genomic medicine leads to un-expected advances in oncology due to the extreme advances in technology. Doctors and Scientist conducted a study on volunteers at a facility called Danna-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). There were also were acceptance requirements in order
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Bladder cancer is not a disease, but a group of abnormal cells that can turn into a disease. These cells can grow rapidly or slowly and can affect males and females at any age. There are many risk factors to take into consideration concerning bladder cancer. Any person with questions or concerns should immediately contact their doctor to receive screenings for this cancer. There are several current and future behaviors I can perform to improve my chances of not getting bladder cancer, since my range
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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
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1. Fill out the table below according to the Forms of Prevention Review. (5) | Primary Prevention | Secondary Prevention | Tertiary Prevention | Description of Patient | Healthy showing no signs or risk factors | Has risk factors, showing early stages of disease, outwardly healthy but inwardly unhealthy | Has full blown disease with apparent signs and symptoms | Stage of Natural History of Disease | Pre-disease stage – no disease present | Asymptomatic/latent stage, showing no outward signs
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is found in some vegetables, such as carrots, peppers, rhubarb, and avocados. One can also get fiber from peas, beans, and legumes. Fiber helps to maintain proper bowel function, and it helps to prevent some cancers, for examples fiber helps to protect against breast cancer, and colon cancer. Fiber lowers cholesterol, stabilizes blood sugar, and helps to prevent obesity by making a person feel like they are full longer and as a result, eat less. There are two kinds of fibers; soluble and insoluble
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be used to pin point a location of a target tissue, such as a tumor or microcalcifications in a breast. The pin pointed location may be used to help guide the removal procedure of the target tissue. Stereotactic biopsy, in fact, is a biopsy procedure that may use a computer and imaging performed in at least two planes to localize a target lesion (such as a tumor or micro calcifications in the breast) in three-dimensional space and guide the removal of tissue for examination by a pathologist under
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type of cancer and its stage. The stage of a cancer refers to how much it has grown and whether the tumor has spread from its original location. If the cancer is confined to one location and has not spread, the most common treatment approach is surgery to cure the cancer. This is often the case with skin cancers, as well as cancers of the lung, breast, and colon. If the tumor has spread to local lymph nodes only, sometimes these can be removed. If surgery cannot remove all of the cancer, the options
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