Collection of Related Diseases Cancer is the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of 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. When cancer develops, however, this orderly
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inhibits blood vessel growth. The drug mainly targets a cell protein formed by cancer called Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) which stimulates blood vessel growth. Cancer tumors release a large amount of VEGF which causes new nearby blood vessels to sprout, hence further feeds the cancer tumor with nutrients. These blood vessels also act as a pathway for the cancer to spread throughout the body. Avastin prevents cancer cell proliferation and inhibits endothelial growth by specifically binding
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MINUTES OF ENJOYMENT NOTES T = THERAPIST C = CLIENT T: How long does it take you to smoke a cigarette? C: About five Minutes T: Do you believe that smoking is harmful to your health C: Yes. T: Do you ever experience shortness of breath? C: Sometimes. T: Have you ever burned clothing or other objects? C: Yes, many times before. T: Could you find something to do with the money you would be saving? C: Sure I could. T: Many smokers tell me that it is becoming a headache to smoke
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Petra Trivunovic Professor Satire ENG 1102 7/25/2015 The Sweet War of Sucralose Would you intentionally eat a substance that when directly exposed to your eyes, burns them and turns them bright red? Or how about a substance that has been used as a chemical warfare agent during World War I and the Iraq war? Well, each and every day many individuals are doing this very thing, only they have absolutely no idea they are consuming this toxic substance. In fact, this very same substance is claimed to
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To explain briefly how forensic medicine is best used it is perhaps best to look at this scenario; a body is found in a field with no visible signs of injury - mortal or otherwise. How did the body get there, how did the victim die, who might have been responsible? These are the questions that forensic medicine seeks to answer using recognized medical procedures as a means of doing so. Forensic medicine is also used to identify the victims of murder when identification proves otherwise impossible
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-zero all the fucking things they said wouldn't kill me all the things that didn't leave me gasping for air when i felt like the ocean filled my lungs all those fucking things- the problems, the drugs, the sour, age beaten acoholic drinks- you're right. they didn't fucking kill me. they left me with fragments of still-functioning lungs. they fucking left me with tears forever soaking into my fucking skin. they left me lying awake at 4 am they left me wishing- they left me -hoping- that they
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A recent British news report confirms this rare but serious risk. A British woman underwent an amniocentesis in May 2000. Her uterus was infected with deadly E. Coli bacteria during the amniocentesis, she went into septic shock, began miscarrying her baby, and died of a heart attack caused by septic shock from the amnio. Both the mother and the baby were lost. A gynecological expert speculated that it was likely that the amnio needle had accidentally perforated her bowel during the procedure
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This is a problem because most people who get liver cancer get it in the setting of the chronic liver disease, cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is the irreversible fibrosis or scarring of the liver. There is a growing problem with cirrhosis, which has become a significant problem, given the obesity epidemic occurring
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Stroke is a disease with disturbance or damage in brain function that may cause temporary or permanent function loss of the part of the body or even death. This disease is one of the major leading causes of death almost in all over the world, including Indonesia. According to Riskesdas' survey result, stroke causes 15,4% death in all ages in Indonesia. This rate is the highest among all death rates caused by other non-transmitted diseases. (Departemen Kesehatan RI, 2011) As a heterogeneous disease
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Abstract— Brain hemorrhage is a type of stroke, which occurs due to artery bursting in the brain, causing bleeding in the surrounded tissues. Diagnosing brain hemorrhage, which is mainly through the examination of a CT scan enables the accurate prediction of disease and the extraction of reliable and robust measurement for patients in order to describe the morphological changes in the brain as the recovery progresses. The aim of this project is to help radiologist as well as medical students in diagnosis
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