Endometrial cancer Essays

  • Endometrial Cancer

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    Uterine cancer is an important women health problem developing rapidly, killing over 200,000 women each year. No one has discovered the actual cause, but there is a leading factor that has great suspicions to what is causing this cancer to grow rapidly. The history of endometrial cancer is very vague, but there are a lot of factors and facts from previous patients that need to be concerned. From the sources that I have research, there was not a definite name that individuals could say discovered

  • Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding

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    Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding Nurse practitioners in primary care will often be presented by a woman having dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB). This difficult to diagnose condition can be complex. According to Schuiling & Likis it accounts for one third of all annual gynecologic visits (2013, p. 610). The terms abnormal uterine bleeding and dysfunctional uterine bleeding has fallen out of favor and anovulatory uterine bleeding has become the standardized terminology. Because many clinicians still

  • Obesity In America

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    obesity causes chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and high-blood

  • Cause Of Cancer Essay

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    Causes of cancer Epidemiologists had identified many important causes of cancer by the early of 1980s. Many types of cancer vary in incidence by more than an order of magnitude between different populations and every type is rare in some part of the world. Many specific causes cancer are now known, the most common are by smoking, obesity and a few oncogenic viruses, but a large proportion of global variation for common cancers such as breast, prostate, colon and rectum remains unexplained (Peto J

  • Informative Speech On Cancer

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    Cancer is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States and its prevalence is growing. It's estimated that 1 in 2 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, and in 2010 alone more than 1.5 million new cases were diagnosed. With numbers like these, you may feel cancer is just a fact of life and you're relatively helpless to influence your risk. While there are certainly risk factors you can't control, like family history or ethnic background, you should know

  • The Correlation Between Genetics and Environmental Lifestyle

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    on the outside which are passed down from generation to generation such as eye color and hair color. Individuals do not always recognize the health traits which are not as visible, like being at risk for certain diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Traits such as high blood pressure are influenced by both genes and environment or a “nature” and “nurture” process (McCance, Huether, Brashers, & Rote, 2010). In most diseases, biological factors such as heredity, age and gender

  • A Critique of Thank You for Smoking. . .?

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    A Critique of “Thank You for Smoking. . .?" Peter Brimelow is a senior editor for Forbes magazine. The essay was written taken from Forbes magazine (July 4, 1994). Peter Brimelow’s “Thank You for Smoking” is a misleading argument which has very little precise evidence and illustrates a weak argument. The essay is about how smoking in some small ways, can be good for you. (Brimelow). In his claim it sounds like he isn’t sure of it himself because he used “might be” and “some” which are

  • Benefits Of Physical Exercise

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    vital for our health, social, and mental wellbeing, although it looks difficult, there are more simple exercise that one can take part in daily. With exercise, they are able to reduce the risk of some common and dangerous diseases like diabetes type2, cancer, cardiovascular disease, as well as other injuries. Exercises also helps us maintain our body sharp, which promotes, self confidence and helps to improve our social relation with others. After reading all the benefits, why take the chance to not exercise

  • Cancer

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    hear the word cancer, they automatically think death. Worldwide cancer is the leading cause of death. Cancer is also the second leading cause of death in the United States. One out of every four deaths in the United States is due to cancer. In the year 2012 1.9 million deaths were caused by lung cancer, 745,000 deaths were caused by liver cancer, 723,000 deaths were caused by stomach cancer, 694,000 deaths were caused by colorectal cancer, 521,000 deaths were caused by breast cancer, and 400,000 deaths

  • Obesity Informative Essay

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    Obesity The impact of getting to be hefty can have genuine repercussions on one's well being and their self regards, which can bring about absence of enthusiasm for work. For instance, you get issues, for example, hypertension, coronary illness, sort 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, nonalcoholic greasy sickness, stroke, metabolic disorder, irregular blood fat, rest apnea, conceptive issues, and gallstones and so on. Something else to pay heed is that heftiness is hereditary, which means you can pass

  • Understanding Endometriosis: Causes and Symptoms

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    Endometriosis What is endometriosis? Endometriosis occurs when endometrial cells grow in areas outside of the endometrium, such as the ovaries, fallopian tubes, or other pelvic regions. This ectopic endometrial tissue promotes an inflammatory response that produces the clinical features of the disease. The condition likely occurs due to various factors such as abnormal immunity, alerted hormone signaling, and genetics. Women are normally affected during their childbearing years and develop pain

  • Research Paper

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    The common statement “Beauty is pain” is something a girl would completely understand. We understand it and accept it because we know the final product of our hair, face or body will be worth whatever pain we put it through. Maybe there is truth to this statement because everyone has tried some kind of diet where we select the salad instead of that amazing cheeseburger. These sacrifices can be pretty painful, but we continue to give in knowing we will improve our overall health. Exercising, which

  • Obesity In America Research Paper

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    Obesity in America is an epidemic affecting nearly 38% of adults across the nation, and we need to work together to cure it. Obesity, being a nation wide issue, will be immensely difficult to put to an end, but it’s not too late to stop its spread. Obesity rates have been on the rise since the early 90’s, and we are going to set out and find a way to stop it in its tracks. Obesity has a longstanding relationship with the United States. The rates of obesity have risen exponentially over time, and

  • Radioisotopes and their Medical Uses

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    A radioisotope is an isotope that emits radiation as it has nuclear instability(Prostate Cancer; Fusion imaging helps target greater doses of radiation).Those who are not too familiar with radioisotopes may think their use is for harmful radiation, nuclear weapons, and the possibility of turning into a giant, raging, green monster. However, there are much more positive uses for radioisotopes. There have been many medical advances thanks to the benefit and practice of radioisotopes in nuclear medicine

  • Essay On Cancer Chemoprevention

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    I have elected to transcribe my proposal argument on issues regarding cancer chemoprevention. I selected this topic because reasonably minute devotion has been given to cancer chemoprevention research in ethical writings, particularly in relation to the huge quantity of moral studies in cancer treatment exploration. Cancer chemoprevention trials test the ability and care of medicinal agents in averting cancer before its manifestation. I believe that phase III chemoprevention issues can be less prevalent

  • Genetic Screening for Colorectal Cancer

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    several types of cancer. Doctors have estimated that as many as 3,000 diseases are due to mutations in the genome. These diseases include several types of colon cancer in which three different genetic tests have been already developed. Debates have arisen on whether these tests should be used regularly or not. Questions including the patients= rights of privacy and the possibility of loss of health or life insurance have been argued over in both the media and political arena. Colon cancer develops in

  • Smoking, the Wrong Choice

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    to keep you alert and awake? Knowing that when you inhale that cigarette you are inhaling a life time of buying a carton every week and taking cigarette breaks outside. Knowing that you are setting yourself up for terminal diseases such as lung cancer and emphysema both can slowly kill anyone. These diseases are proven by medical research to come from long term smoking. In conclusion Peter’s article on the positive affects of smoking is misleading. Most of his facts are not totally true. Smoking

  • Tamoxifen Case

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    Hormonal or endocrine therapy can be used to treat metastatic, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer. Since the early 1970s, the ER antagonist, tamoxifen has been used to inhibit or suppress tumour growth (20). The selective oestrogen receptor modulator (SERM) works by preventing the binding of oestrogen to oestrogen receptors located in the breast tissue (20). In order to exhibit its antagonistic effects, it undergoes metabolism by cytochrome P450 enzymes and converted into its active and inactive

  • Informative Essay On Cancer

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    Cancer is a normal illness in today’s society. Many people have it and many will get it. With something so normal in this world how well do people actually understand cancer? Cancer is all around. Do people actually let their minds process what is really happening? Cancer starts with changes in one cell or small groups of cells. In human bodies cells divide or multiply when needed. If any signals to control how often to divide or multiply cell are faulty or missing, cells may start to grow and multiply

  • Estrogen Receptor Positive (SER

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    Introduction Breast Cancer is on the forefront of modern tumor research and scientists are continually seeking new ways to treat and prevent cancer progression. Current treatments using hormone-dependent drugs like Tamoxifen and Raloxifene focus on estrogen receptor inhibition in mammary and endometrial cell lines. The estrogen receptor is heavily targeted in breast cancer treatment because it is easy to inhibit has strong affinity for binding to many molecules mimicking the estrogen hormone - inducing