Essays on Oncology

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer, and 232,000 women are diagnosed with it every year (National). For years now, researchers have been trying to find an answer to this unanswered question: Is there a cure to this disease and what is it? Chemotherapy...

Cancer starts forming in the body when certain cells start to grow out of control at an alarmingly fast rate. Neuroblastoma is aggressive cancer that affects the nervous system which contains the brain, spinal cord and the nerves that go all over the body. It...

There are many problems in cancer detection that the world faces today, including the ability to diagnose cancers earlier, finding less invasive diagnosis techniques, less expensive detection tools, and more accurate ways to detect and remove cancerous tissue (1-4). Cancers are much easier to treat...