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    Overview |   | About Ovarian Cancer  Cells in the body normally reproduce themselves in an orderly manner. But in cancer the cells start dividing uncontrollably‚ and do not die the way normal cells do. As the cells produce more cells‚ a mass or tumor may appear. The tumor can invade surrounding tissue and keep the healthy tissue from doing its normal job. There are two kinds of tumors: * Benign tumors are not life threatening. They do not invade other tissues and when they are removed they

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    topic of lung cancer to educate those about the final stages of lung cancer. Lung cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. Men‚ women‚ and sometimes children can be affected from lung cancer. There are no definitive cures for lung cancer but there are treatments to control it and stop it from spreading. With the medical and technological advancements that have been made in the past decade‚ doctors can increase the length of one’s life who has been diagnosed with cancer. There are

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    Cervical Cancer Research Paper SCI/162 Principles of health and wellness Do to the high risk of cancer What is cervical cancer? [Writing suggestion: Unless in a quote or a title‚ avoid rhetorical questions in academic writing. A good idea is to provide answers‚ not questions] Cervical cancer is a cancer which takes over the lower part of the uterus. The cells in the lining of the cervix unpredictably changes into cancer. The common cells in the cervix begin to change into pre-cancerous

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    human body‚ if the thyroid has cancer the body cannot function like it should. According to American Cancer Society thyroid cancer is a brutal cancer that about 62‚450 Americans have. Women are more susceptible to this disease than men‚ and this disease is diagnosed at a young age. Out of the 62‚450 cases of thyroid cancer only about 1‚080 people die of this each year‚ although this is a lot of people it is a very small percentage of the cases. The symptoms of this cancer can often be confused with other

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    ------------------------------------------------- Colorectal cancer From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Colorectal cancer | Classification and external resources | Diagram of the lower gastrointestinal tract | ICD-10 | C18-C20/C21 | ICD-9 | 153.0-154.1 | ICD-O: | M8140/3 (95% of cases) | OMIM | 114500 | DiseasesDB | 2975 | MedlinePlus | 000262 | eMedicine | med/413 med/1994ped/3037 | Colorectal cancer‚ commonly known as bowel cancer‚ is a cancer from uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts

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    Health Disparities Faced by African Americans and Mexican Americans Christie Rice Nursing 410‚ 6851380 June 9‚ 2013 Abstract Health disparities exist in the United States based on race‚ sex‚ age‚ disabilities‚ socioeconomic status and geographic location. A specific look at race will find many contributing factors. Mexican Americans and African Americans have large gaps of disparities when compared with Caucasians regarding hypertension

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    Typhoon Thongprakob Mrs. Gillaspie Anatomy 23 January‚ 2017 Prostate Cancer Prostate cancer is a disease only for men‚ but women still need to know about it in case of someone in their family is being diagnosed with a prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers for men‚ and is the second deadliest. Prostate cancer is the cancer in man’s prostate‚ the gland that produce seminal fluid. The prostate is an exocrine gland that is directly under the bladder and the function of

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    Lung cancer to due smoking and air pollution A review of Literature Akeem Williams 6/04/2012 Health Positive Living Professor Luster-Harvey Abstract Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Identifying factors associated with stage of diagnosis can improve our understanding of biologic and behavioral pathways of lung cancer development and detection. We used data from a prospective cohort study to evaluate

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    Antioxidant Cancer Prevention Few Americans are educated on antioxidants‚ and how antioxidants can help in our daily diet. Antioxidants are micro-nutrients that protect tissues in the body. They do this by blocking harmful chemical reactions caused by oxidation‚ which is the destructive effect of oxygen on the molecular components of our cells. Just as oxygen can cause metals to rust and corrode‚ it can pull electrons from organic molecules making them defective and capable of producing cellular

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    Prostate Cancer is the second most common cancer among men‚ after skin cancer‚ and is the leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States. Prostate cancer is caused by changes in the DNA of a prostate cell that turns off tumor suppressor genes and activate oncogenes. Essentially‚ cancer is an epigenetic programming problem. Epigenetics is the study of trait variations that are caused by factors that turn genes on and off and change how cells read genes. Immune evasion is when alterations

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