Tag: Cancer

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Breast Cancer Treatments
22nd Jun 2020
Introduction: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Pertuzumab With Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy Compared to Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy in the Adjuvant Treatment of HER2-Positive Breast Cancer in the United States Intro...

Evaluation of CAR T Cell Therapy
22nd Jun 2020
Introduction: CAR T Cell Therapy It is common knowledge that cancer has a major impact on societies around the world. In 2018, it was estimated that a total of 1.7 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the ...

Recurring Pericardial Effusion in a Cancer Patient
16th Jun 2020
Introduction: ABSTRACT A 55 year old woman was admitted to hospital for symptoms of shortness of breath when bent over and a sloshing sensation in her chest. She has been treated with chemotherapy and radiation fo...

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Risk Factors and Treatments
10th Jun 2020
Introduction: Abstract Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells or platelets. It is also known as acute myelogenous leukemia, acute...

Clinical Presentation of Lung Cancer
9th Jun 2020
Introduction: Abstract Radiation therapy’s goal is to eliminate the tumor mass, while sparing the surrounding healthy organs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. This increase i...

The Future of Cancer Treatment
8th Jun 2020
Introduction: ABSTRACT Cancer comprises several diseases that are characterized by abnormal cell growth. There are over one hundred varieties of cancer usually named for their cell or organ type. Cancer is the root...

Significance of Drug Repurposing in the Future of AML Treatment
8th Jun 2020
Introduction: The significance of drug repurposing in the future of AML treatment A Layman’s Literature Review for the project “Characterisation of repurposed drugs as novel therapies in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia...

Literature on Cancer Disparities in the LGBTQ Population
2nd Jun 2020
Introduction: A Review of the Scholarly Literature on Cancer Disparities in the LGBTQ Population Abstract:  The LGBTQ population represents an unfocused group of individuals that are known to be at an increased ri...

Treatment Options for Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer
2nd Jun 2020
Introduction: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, making up 15% of all new cancers in the UK and 25% worldwide (Torre, 2015). One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer and around ...

Liposomes Targeted to MHC-restricted Antigen Improve Drug Delivery and Anti-melanoma Response
29th May 2020
Introduction: Liposomes Targeted to MHC-restricted Antigen Improve Drug Delivery and Anti-melanoma Response Liposomes are becoming an increasingly, potentially popular way to administer drugs to a patient that has ...

Issue of Cervical Cancer in Developing Countries
28th May 2020
Introduction: Introduction Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequently occurring cancer in women and the eighth-most frequent cancer worldwide (World Cancer Research Fund International, 2019). According to the W...

Application of Perspective of Health and Illness to Case Study
28th May 2020
Introduction: 1. How do the lenses provided by psychology, biology, sociology and the life course help you to understand your own healthcare practice in this case? 2. How did the multidisciplinary team working help...

The Risk Factor of Age on Ovarian Cancer
26th May 2020
Introduction: Abstract This research paper explores one risk factor of ovarian cancer, expose the pathogenesis of age correlation with ovarian cancer, state the risk factors’ effects on epigenetics,  as well as ...

Laryngeal Cancer: A Review of Treatments
25th May 2020
Introduction: Laryngeal Cancer: A Review Laryngeal cancer is one of the most common cancers of the head and neck in the United States (Baird, Sung, Beadle, & Divi, 2018; Mannelli, Lazio, Luparello, & Gallo,...

Basal Cell Carcinoma: Causes, Risks and Treatment
25th May 2020
Introduction: Basal Cell Carcinoma Basal cell carcinoma is the least risky type of cancer that grows on areas on your skin that are overexposed to the sun. It usually starts as small, shiny, raised bumps that are c...

Brain Cancer: Causes, Effects and Treatment Options
22nd May 2020
Introduction:  The medical diagnosis that will be discussed in this assessment is brain cancer, inclusive to all types of brain tumors and ones that also affect the central nervous system (CNS), that stem from...

Health Issues in New Zealand: Cancer, Suicide and Cardiovascular Disease
20th May 2020
Introduction: TASK-1.1/1.2 Identify three health issues in New Zealand 1. Cancer 2. Suicide 3. Cardiovascular disease Cancer                         Cancer is a group of disease involving abn...

Uterine Cancer (UC): Disease Process, Risk Factors and Treatments
19th May 2020
Introduction: Abstract Uterine Cancer (UC) is the most common cancer in women in the United States. Both new cases and death increase yearly. In a normal uterus, the endometrium, or lining, thickens every month unl...

Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated Protein 4: Treating Melanomas
19th May 2020
Introduction: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated Protein 4: Treating Melanomas Abstract A promising field of cancer therapy is blockading immune checkpoints, which looks at using the body’s own immune system ...

Comparison of Breast Cancer Treatments
14th May 2020
Introduction: Abstract In this paper we will discussing five different ways to treat Breast Cancer .Breast Cancer is when the cells grow out of control and form a tumor that can be seen by xray for felt like a lump...

Patient with Breast Cancer on Adjuvant Chemotherapy: Development of Neutropenic Sepsis
14th May 2020
Introduction: Introduction The case study to follow will be based on a 41-year-old female with Breast Cancer (Appendix 1, The Case). The patient commenced first cycle Epirubicin/Cyclophosphamide (EC). 7 days post ...

A Systematic Review of Thyroid Cancer After the Chernobyl Accident
7th May 2020
Introduction: ABSTRACT Background: Following the immediate fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, many epidemiologic studies were conducted to ascertain the effects of ionizing radiation on cancer incidence and...

What Are the Primary Different Types of Cancer, and in What Ways Are They Related?
5th May 2020
Introduction: Executive Summary My research was done to basically learn about the different types of cancer. It is also to know about the similarities in which they cause. During the time of the research I did a su...

Patient Case Study: Mandibular Tumour
4th May 2020
Introduction: This presentation is focused on Mr Brown, a 72-year-old adult male patient who was admitted in an East of England hospital. He was diagnosed with mandibular tumour which is a type of oral cancer. Pseu...