Essays About Cancer

Cancer is a dangerous, complex, malignant tumor distinguished by unregulated, rapid and aggressive mitosis and growth of undifferentiated malfunctioning cells containing mutated genes (that form tumors). It is capable of invading surrounding tissues and metastasizing to various body organs and regions (thereby producing different cancer...

Introduction Cancer is identified as the uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in the body, there are over 100 types of cancer that the human body can get and this can happen in all parts of the body. How this works is that the body cells...

Cancer is one of the most common terminal illnesses amongst Americans. Every third person in this country is detected with some form of malignancy during their lifetime. It has been estimated that in the current year, a whopping 1,735,350 new cancer cases will be reported....

Overview of the Proposed Policy It’s been proven in studies that risk for breast cancer is linked with age, sedentary and poor dietary lifestyle. Especially the combination of dietary choices that are fatty, smoking and prolonged use of excessive alcohol profoundly increases chance of breast...

Cancer prevention is by far a better option than trying to treat cancers once they have formed and become a health issue, no matter what age you are or the level your health, it is never too late to start reversing the effects of the...

Introduction Until now, viruses have been seen as nothing but damaging, dangerous and detrimental to our health. Since their discovery in 1892 they have been perceived as a global health threat; not a remedy or possible treatment for one of the leading causes of mortality...

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide next to cardiovascular disease. 40% of cancers can be prevented by reducing the exposure to risk factors. The incidence of cancer worldwide is 18 million, 9. 5 million in men and 8. 5 million in women...

A big problem in the distribution of cancer care is the so-called 10/90 gap. The 10/90 gap refers to the finding that 90% of the research investments is targeted to only 10% of the world’s population. This is because there is a big difference in...

Cancers and tumours cost every country a lot of money. In Scotland the total amount spent on cancer services (excluding cancer screening programmes) was about £475 million in 2007. This was not only written by three experts in healthcare improvement and economics, it was also...

The dawn of cancer genomics has heralded an unprecedented era of precision medicine, allowing the identification of genome-wide somatic driver alterations that can be used for early cancer diagnosis, prognosis, stratification to optimum therapies and monitoring of developing resistance, as well as predicting which patients...

We often lose ourselves in books as reading is the sole means by which we slip, inadvertently, often impotently, into another’s life. One of these books is When Breath Becomes Air written by the hands of Paul Kalanithi and published in 2016. It is a...

Close interpersonal relationships play a major role in coping with cancer effectively. Neelam Kumar’s husband passed away when she was in her thirties, and hence couldn’t be a part of her journey with cancer. There is a common element of guilt experienced by the other...

Biologically models in radiation therapy To determine the best fractionation to use in radiotherapy what to need is a mathematical model that describes the effects of radiotherapy on both cancer and normal cells. A mathematical model is an equation or algorithm that combines dosimetric and...

Background Following the discovery and usage of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology as a method of genome-editing, its potential as a type of clinical therapy for genetically-linked diseases such as various forms of cancer has generated great excitement within the medical community....

When it comes to nutrition, everyone is being extremely expert at it because everyone can simply get into everything such as eating good foods and being engaged in material that keep everyone sociable. Everyone can simply get into everything but most importantly, always keep your...

Novel Cancer Therapy The regression of cancer caused by the release of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 could lead to a new class of cancer therapies. The target is to provoke a sarcoidosis response against a malignant process. This approach probably represents one of the most effective therapeutic...

The decisions made by the Multidisciplinary Oncologic Team (MOT) should consider multiple aspects such as individual patients’ health status, availability of local facilities, and expertise. During a traditional MOT staff round for solid-organ cancers, one of the most important decisions to be made is whether...

Nearly more than a million cancer cases are being diagnosed worldwide annually, among which colorectal cancer is highly prevalent. Oxaliplatin (OXP) is a third generation platinum based anti-neoplastic agent mainly employed for colorectal cancer, marketed as FOLFOX- a combination drug of Oxaliplatin, 5-Fluorouracil and folinic...

Phoebe grew up dancing for countless of hours at her local dance studio, a place she called her second home. Anyone watching her could see how passionate she was about moving and expressing her emotions through graceful choreography. It was at this very studio on...