Essays on Oncology

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Different Views on Cancer Based on Religion, Culture, Race, Class and Gender

6 pages / 2904 words

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for over nine million deaths in 2018. This means around one in every six deaths is caused by cancer. This disease not only affects those that are afflicted with the disease but can also...

Cancer Cell Cycle

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An Overview of Leukemia - Blood Cancer

2 pages / 745 words

Our bodies are made up of trillions of tiny little things called cells. Each cell has a different job to do. Red blood cells give energy to our body, white blood cells fight off disease, and platelets help the body stop bleeding after getting a...

Cancer Leukemia

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The Effectiveness of Exercise in Treating Childhood Leukemia

3 pages / 1492 words

Introduction Leukemia is a cancer that affects bone marrow and damages the formation of blood cells, and it is the most common childhood cancer and accounts for 30% of all childhood malignancies (Amitay & Keinan-Boker, 2015). While there are several forms of childhood leukemia, acute...

Cancer Leukemia

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Leukemia, an In-depth Look at The Skeletal System

2 pages / 1081 words

Introduction Leukemia is infamously known disease in modern times, yet a lot of people don’t have an exact understanding of what it really is, or how it started. Yet, despite being given so little attention, it raises many health concerns and affects a large portion...

Cancer Leukemia

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Melanoma: The Risk Factors and Preventative Approach in Adolescents 

2 pages / 1106 words

Introduction Melanoma may develop within an existing mole or dissimilarly appear as a new mole. The most common form of cancer in the US is that of the skin. The three prevalent types are: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Melanoma is the...

Cancer Melanoma Skin Cancer

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Adapting a Skin Cancer Prevention Intervention for Multiethnic Adolescents

3 pages / 1537 words

Introduction Skin cancer is an uncontrolled growth of skin cells. Skin cancer is one the most common type of cancer in the United States and its rates have increased 3% annually. Avoidance of irregular sunburns and indoor tanning can reduce skin cancer risk 50% to...

Skin Cancer

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An Overview of Skin Cancer, Its Types, Risk Factors, and Treatment

3 pages / 1494 words

Introduction Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in the U.S. This type of cancer usually begins in the form a tumor which most of the time these tumors are benign and do not spread. Three major types of skin cancer, from benign...

Skin Cancer

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A Research Paper on Skin Cancer Detection Using Cnn

6 pages / 2747 words

Abstract This paper addresses the demand for an intelligent and rapid classification system of skin cancer using contemporary highly-efficient deep convolutional neural network. CNNs use convolutional layers to perform image processing on input images and learn to perform classification tasks. In order to take advantage...

Skin Cancer

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The Link Between Intentional Tanning and Skin Cancer  

2 pages / 928 words

Introduction Tanning outside or inside can have perilous outcomes. While regularly connected with great wellbeing, the ‘sparkle’ of a tan is the extremely inverse of sound; its proof of DNA damage to your skin. Tanning harms your skin cells and accelerates unmistakable indications of maturing....

Skin Cancer

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Bronchial Brushing Cytology in Evaluating Lung Cancer: Efficacy and Pitfalls

4 pages / 2027 words

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality. Presently, various cytologic diagnostic techniques are being used in the evaluation of suspected lung neoplasms. Though the initial diagnosis of malignancy can be made based on clinico-radiological grounds, but the definitive diagnosis needs cytological or histopathological...

Cell Human Anatomy Lung Cancer

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Cancer Prevention and Alternative Treatment

4 pages / 1664 words

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...

Alternative Medicine Cancer Therapy

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Cancer: Types, Causes, Effects and Treatment

5 pages / 2465 words

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 Therapy

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Zika Virus and Its Potential to Treat Brain Cancer

5 pages / 2374 words

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 Viruses Zika Virus

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Lifestyle Changes to Prevent Cancer

1 page / 566 words

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....

Cancer

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Research on Correlation of Notch Signaling Pathway in The Prognosis of Breast Cancer

4 pages / 1718 words

The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis is regarded as a reasonable explanation for the rapid multiplication of cells in the disease. They are self-sufficient cells which seem to have increase tumorigenicity and self-renewal, which allow them to expand more rapidly than normal cells. While the...

Breast Cancer DNA Stem Cell

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Social Perspective of Cancer: The 10/90 Gap

2 pages / 877 words

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...

Cancer Sociological Perspective

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Comparing The Eu, Canada, and The USA in Terms of Cancer Treatment and Research

2 pages / 813 words

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...

Canada Cancer Research

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The Need for Standardizing Pre-analytical Sample Handling and Integrating Analytical Workflows for Ensuring Liquid Biopsies Are Ready for Prime-time

1 page / 603 words

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...

Cancer DNA

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A Journey of Pain and Suffering in The Book When Breath Becomes Air

2 pages / 916 words

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...

Book Review Cancer Lung Cancer