The Depths of H.I.V.: The Potential Cure for Cancer
One of the deadliest and most threatening diseases that taunted mankind is called cancer. Cancer is a disease which is caused by a chronic division and abnormality of the cells inside a person's body. Moreover, It may be possibly be genetically passed or environmentally admitted. This vile complication is also known as an incurable disease due to its abusive power to kill innocent people throughout these years. Fortunately, a number of gallant medical experts had taken a big and beneficial step towards victory by devoting their entire time upon finding the possible cure for this intolerable disease. It had been an extremely tough call for the medical experts who specialize in this disease because finding the cure for cancer have been quite stressful and difficult since plenty of potential treatments for cancer are still in the depths of being examined and tested. On the upper-hand, determining the cure and treatments for cancer had been made possible due to the accumulated studies and sources that involves the cancer's origin, process, and mechanism (Schwab, 1945). In additional fact, an association which is located in United Kingdoms pitched in a number of the latest cancer cases which also contributed a substantial progress in the field of medicine because these proliferated studies had reduced the quantity of young people who smoke and helped other medical doctors to amplify their practical knowledge of medical treatments for cancer.
Due to the passion to prolong life and the dedication to serve dying people, medical doctors have been studying advanced cancer care planning for the benefits of cancer patients and their loving an...
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..., it has been based in worldwide statistical records that the outcome of H.I.V. virus injection is favorable and achievable. In other words, modified H.I.V. virus cells are tested to cancer-related patients, and also medical researchers are finding every corner of every way to find new innovative ways in which the issue in injecting H.I.V. virus in patients would be eased.
Due to its experimental stage, engineered H.I.V. virus should continuously be studied so that in the future it will be implied to the community in a breeze with no distrust in the people's minds. Doctors should also start researching on H.I.V. virus in our times now. In essence. they should also start compiling adequate studies that would support the project of finding the cure for H.I.V. virus because it is not easy to use a cure for a dreadful disease which also do not have a cure for its own.
The improvement of medicine over the course of the human successes gave great convenience to the people of today. Science has cured and prevented many illnesses from occurring and is on its way to cure some of the most dreadful and harmful illnesses. As the world modernizes due to the industrialization, so does the ways of medicine. Some cures are approached by chance, some, through intense, scientific measures.
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Gawande’s book is very pertinent to the present day and has by many accounts sparked a national discussion on end-of-life care and how we treat our elderly. With elderly people accounting for a greater proportion of the American populace and as people start living even longer than they do now, end-of-life care will become and remain a major issue faced by doctors, patients, their families, and the healthcare system. Additionally, with our greater focus on improving patient outcomes while getting the most value for our healthcare dollars, end-of-life care is a major area that healthcare systems and hospitals will focus on, as it accounts for a large portion of their budget. As a response to the need to take care of our aging population, hospice care and palliative medicine are some of the newer specialties in the medical field that have been increasing in popularity and more research needs to be focused in these areas to better understand how to improve patient outcomes.
The first journal article is about advance care planning (ACP) in palliative care. This is of interest due to several clinical experiences and the realization that many families either ignore the patient’s request for end of life (EOL) care or who have no idea of how to plan for EOL care. By reading the research and understanding the methods used, this will allow for insight into how to implement palliative care into clinical practice across different sites. The authors of this original research are Jeanine Blackford PhD, RN, senior lecturer at La Trobe University in Australia, and Annette Street PhD, associate dean of research and professor of cancer and palliative care studies. According to Blackford & Street (2011), this research is important as there are many countries that “report a low percentage of people who have completed an advance care plan” (p. 2022), and ACP is needed upon admission to facilities that offer palliative care.
Based off of these findings, much advancement in medicine has been created to improve life. The most common today is the cure for certain viruses. By simply taking a shot containing a vaccine, that took extensive research and self-intuition, one can dramatically reduce their chance of the virus affecting them later on.
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The HCV virus measures about 50 nm in diameter; it is classified as a separate genus (Hepacivirus) within the Flaviviridae family. It is the virus that causes Hepatitis C. This family of viruses all has ribonucleic acid (RNA) as their genetic material. “All hepatitis C viruses have an outer coat or envelope and contain enzymes and proteins that allow the virus to reproduce within the cells of the body, in this case, liver cells.” There are at least six strains of the hepatitis C virus, and they all have this structure but have different genotypes. These ...
The Public Health Imperative measures the quality of life of an individual during times of severe chronic illness. This health imperative is characterized by: the potential to prevent suffering caused by the illness, major impact, and high burden. In the recent past is has become evident that care for older people, who have potential to become terminally ill, must be focused on. The types of patients may also lose the capability to make some of their most important decisions which include actions made by health professionals that are related to their end of life situation. Luckily actions were made to identify certain priorities pertaining to the public health and end of life issues. These priorities were established by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors and the Healthy Aging Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These end of life health priorities which address short-term, medium-term and long-term needs are also called advanced care planning. It can be concluded that communication between professionals and among families about the patient can enhance the effectiveness of advanced care planning.
There are a number of ways that the current treatment for hepatitis C could improved. In the future researchers aim to develop a more effective, safe and well-tolerated interferon therapy. They have also created a new vaccine technology that has been tested in mice for its therapeutic efficiency against the most conserved regions of the hepatitis genome. They hope to eventually develop drugs that target the hepatitis C RNA-dependant RNA polymerase enzyme, which is responsible for the replication of the entire hepatitis C genome, and prevent the replication of the hepatitis C virus directly.9 Although hepatitis C is a very serious disease of the liver, technologies and medications have been proven to be effective in many chronically infected persons with hepatitis C virus.
The book begins with a narrative of cancer relating back to its history. Cancer in the book is discussed as a confusing, complex disease that was hard to decode by doctors for over a century. Mukherjee gives rich details about the way people assessed breast cancer in the nineteenth century discussing how radiation and chemotherapy were once used before modern times. Further, into the book, Mukherjee shares with personal experience working in the field of
The care of patients at the end of their live should be as humane and respectful to help them cope with the accompanying prognosis of the end of their lives. The reality of this situation is that all too often, the care a patient receives at the end of their life is quite different and generally not performed well. The healthcare system of the United States does not perform well within the scope of providing the patient with by all means a distress and pain free palliative or hospice care plan. To often patients do not have a specific plan implemented on how they wish to have their end of life care carried out for them. End of life decisions are frequently left to the decision of family member's or physicians who may not know what the patient needs are beforehand or is not acting in the patient's best wishes. This places the unenviable task of choosing care for the patient instead of the patient having a carefully written out plan on how to carry out their final days. A strategy that can improve the rate of care that patients receive and improve the healthcare system in general would be to have the patient create a end of life care plan with their primary care physician one to two years prior to when the physician feels that the patient is near the end of their life. This would put the decision making power on the patient and it would improve the quality of care the patient receives when they are at the end of their life. By developing a specific care plan, the patient would be in control of their wishes on how they would like their care to be handled when the time of death nears. We can identify strengths and weakness with this strategy and implement changes to the strategy to improve the overall system of care with...
Cancer patients often wonder if going through treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are worth the risk of the side effects, in addition to the cancerous side effects. They feel that they can’t enjoy or relax in what a short amount of time they have left because they are bedridden from the nausea and pain that treatments put them through. Patients tell their loved ones to just let them die so long as they don’t have to go through any more pain. Those who are too old, are unable to recover from the effects, or are just too far in the grips of cancer, should refuse the more harsh treatments like chemo and radiation. On the positive side, refusing treatments after a certain point can save their families from the stress and cost of hospital bills. If caught early enough, patients can opt for safer and easier routes to getting rid of cancer like surgery or by doing a stem cell transplant.
Even though many dispute over the value and usefulness of treatment and care of terminally ill patients, the debate for the most useful care and pain reliever for these patients is the question that most patients, and their families, have to ask themselves daily. Wesley J. Smith suggests that Hospice care for patients with such a horrible illness is a beneficial program and that many patients need to utilize it. Smith also recommends that a valuable care option would be to “allow the terminally ill to enter hospice care without having to give up life-extending or curative treatments”. (Smith 3) With this statement, Smith demonstrates a way that these ill patients can be provided with treatment and also care for the patient’s quality of life.
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But, what are we doing about it? Do we have the technology to finally be able to put this deadly disease to an end? During the 15th century, scientists started grasping a better understanding of the human body. Giovanni Morgangi was the first to perform autopsies on patients to relate to their illnesses along with the finding of cancer after death. This laid the foundation of scientific oncology, the study of cancer.