Essays on Malignancy

Cancer is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Every year, various types of cancer kill millions of people. The problem of cancer disease is unique because of its complexity and importance to humankind. Cancers affect all segments of the population, causing enormous damage to society. Although malignant tumors are extremely diverse and complex for the perception, the risk factors and mechanisms of development of cancer are well known enough so that it becomes possible not only to heal, but also to engage in cancer prevention. Cancer is the most difficult and dangerous disease, since it can ...

Discuss the workup of the cervical lymphadenopathy.

The initial step is to direct a complete and deliberate physical examination to decide its exact location, consistency, size, obsession, and delicacy joined by a complete presentation history and an audit of the patient's indications. This would help determine the type of treatment and whether there is a need for further tests (Gow & Minkes, 2016).

What tests would you do first and why?

Further, tests would be carried out to determine the exact nature and extent of the lymphadenopathy. If it were malignant, the tests would be to determine the extent to which it has spread in order to determine the course of treatment. If otherwise, the ...

Women’s health is an important area to consider. Particularly, the critical stage in their life is the stage when they achieve the motherhood. Numerous care specialists investigated this specific stage so as to gain insights of clinical importance. In such context, the present description deals with a topic, Mammography-Literature review on Breast compression. Briefly, a breast compression refers to ‘breast flattening’ such that the adequate quantity of tissue could be visualized through imaging and tested, during a mammographic examination (Breast Compression,2015) Rationale: Breast compression, at the time of mammography, is one of the various fundamental technical approaches ...

Healthy behaviors play a key role in daily life. Yet, certain unhygienic practices tend to interfere with the health and induce a risk to the overall life. These practices could be high-fat diet, alcohol, and smoking. There is a need to know much about these. In such context, the present description deals with a topic “ What will kill you first, a smoking, a high-fat diet or alcohol?”.

Health -related risk factors:

A risk factor is any quality, trademark or presentation of a person that improves the probability of building up an ailment or damage. A few illustrations of the more vital danger elements ...

Abstract

Testicular cancer is a type of cancer that directly involves the main male reproductive organ, the testes. The testes are basically a loose sack of skin and flesh located below the penis. Testicular cancer is a rare form of cancer only accounting for between 1% and 3% of the total number of cancer cases in the male population in western countries. It is also one of the most curable forms of cancer. Nonetheless, it is still a condition worth reviewing. The research question in this paper asks whether survivors of testicular cancer indeed suffer from a testicular cancer-related comorbidity ...

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Definition: Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia (PVL) 2, 3 is a rare oral leukoplakia characterized primarily by chronic proliferation (4.4-11.6 years1), exophytosis, confluence, refractoriness to treatment, and extremely high cancerization. It is referred to plainly as ‘oral leukoplakia’ (OL) before 20041. Thereafter, it is called PVL. The WHO classified it among the “potentially malignant disorders”2. When multifocal1, 3, it can be found in the buccal mucosa, gingiva, alveolar ridges, and tongue. Epidemiology: Oral white lesions have a prevalence of 24.8% with 0.2 to 3.6% of which constitutes leukoplakia2. Over 86% of PVL becomes cancerous in 4.73 to 6.12 mean years (range: ...

Cause and effect of cancer

For a common individual cancer is the deathly disease, for which a treatment process that would completely finish it has not yet been found! We fear it as we fear death, because at the end of the day that is what it does to us. It slowly decays our body to the extent that there is nothing left inside us. Cancer refers to a non-communicable disease characterized by uninhibited multiplication of abnormal cells in any part of the body. It is these abnormal cells which, are called cancerous, malignant or tumor cells (medicinenet.com). Types of cancers are further identified by ...

Introduction

Osteosarcoma is a mesenchymal tumor characterized by the production of osteoid malignant cancer cells. Osteosarcoma remains a relatively rare type of bone cancer malignancy with nearly 900 new cases reported in the United States per year (Geller & Gorlick, 2010, p. 705). The reported cases of osteosarcoma represent one percent of the reported cancers in the United States with a peak frequency of 4.4 cases per million annually among the adolescent and young adult population. Although, a rare type of bone cancer malignancy, the demands and challenges to the patients, families, as well as caregivers continues challenging medical professionals. The incidences of this disease ...

Cancer denotes an abnormal growth of cells, as a result of, changes in gene expressions following deregulated cell division and death (Ruddon, 2007). Consequently, this produces a population of cells that invade tissues and metastasizes to other sites, and if untreated, it causes significant morbidity and/or death of the affected person (Ruddon, 2007). In essence, cancer stems from alterations in the expression of certain genes; this phenomenon deregulates the cellular program for cell division and differentiation. In the long run, cell division, as well as cell death, become unregulated leading to the growth of tumor cells. The events that trigger ...

- The cancer to be researched it eye cancer which is a malignancy that starts in the eye and is divided into two groups, intraocular and orbital cancer. - The question for the research include; - Who are the susceptible groups to eye cancer infection in the population? - What is the incidence of eye cancer in the past decade? - Which type of eye cancer is most prevalent among those diagnosed with eye cancer? - Does eye cancer show any pattern of distribution (geographical or racial) or is it randomly distributed among the world’ ...

1.0 Introduction Hemophilia refers to a sex linked recessive, hereditary lifelong bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency or lack of a vital blood-clotting factor. The disorder is therefore associated with excessive and often spontaneous bleeding of mainly internal organs. While hemophilia A is associated with the partial or lack of factor VIII, hemophilia B is a deficiency of factor IX. Without considering the type and severity, there is 1 reported case in every 5000 male births and 1 severe case in every 10,000 male births. Suffice to say that hemophilia A is referred to as the classical hemophilia because it is ...

Cell Cycle

Introduction Asymmetric cell division is a situation where a cell divides into parts of two cells that comprise two dissimilar cellular fates. For most part, the term applies and is usually used in referring to cells that are essentially diverse at the point of cytokinesis. Cytokinesis is the term used to describe how the cytoplasm and its organelles divide to form two separate cells. The daughter cell formed contains the same genetic material as the mother cell. This implies that individual daughter cell comprise a diverse physical makeup. This stands to convey the contrast surrounding extrinsically dissimilar cells where individual cell ...

Malignancy of the breast is the most common cancer in women after melanoma and it is responsible for about one-third of all cancers in women. Mortality because of the cancer is on the decline in the United States due to better detection and treatment. Breast cancer is a disease of epithelial cells that line the ducts of the breast. It is a clonal disease, meaning that a single transformed cell that eventually expresses full malignant potential causes it. Therefore, it may exist for a long period before it becomes invasive and metastatic. (Harrisons, 2008, p.563) Park, et al, are affiliated with Massachusetts ...

Abstract

Introduction Display of Data Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Abstract The aim of this project was to investigate the incidence of follicular carcinoma in follicular lesions as reported by fine needle aspiration (FNA) in King Abdulaziz University Hospital. It was observed that a high percentage of these follicular lesions were benign. Of major concern is that a large percentage of these clients undergo surgery to establish a diagnosis. It is advocated that alternative measures should be adopted to reduce unnecessary surgeries. Hence, reducing cost, morbidity and the psychological impact on the patient of uncertain ...

The second nanotechnology technical brief that is from the DEW Point Resource Center gives a summary of the use of nanotechnology in cancer therapy and the step that need to be taken to ensure that this technology helps in treatment of cancer. There will be suggestions for further reading.

Current state

Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases that are affecting many people in the world. The most vulnerable are the poor people who cannot afford cancer therapy. The cost of undergoing cancer treatment is high such that it cannot be afforded by the poor people in the society. Cancer deaths ...

Introduction

The skin is an essential organ in the human body made of a complex membrane of cells, tissues and pigments that hold the body together. Similarly, the skin color is determined by the amount of melanin, the location of melanin and melanocytes, and the presence of caretenoids (Ostler, et al., 2004). Further, the ratio between oxygenated blood and hemoglobin and exogenous or endogenous pigments, also affect the skin color. Melanin is a vital tissue in the skin and the malfunction of melanocytes system, can lead to pigmentation disorder (Rose, 2009). The malfunction of melanocytes system can amount to melanocytic nevi, a ...