Lived Experiences

When working with students assignments that deals with religion, we as educators have to take various things into considerations. We have to allow students the opportunity to express themselves even when dealing with religious

I reminisce with all members of my family the day we received the news from our doctor that my father had prostate cancer. We got that news like thunder in our ears, because just one year before we had lost our sister to breast cancer, and we still remember how much pain and suffering the cancer had caused. As a result nobody in our family believed that we were going to lose our father either. My father suffered prostate cancer for nearly two years, because the cancer had already spread to his bones. Before my father had discovered the cancer, he suffered from pain in his back so as a result of this back pain, he visited the doctor and he started to take some medication to relieve the back pain. He also tried to use a crutch to

There are many symptoms that can cause suspicion of Prostate Cancer. While very few men show no signs or symptoms of this cancer many men show signs in their urine. (“Prostate Cancer”) Frequent urination, the frequent use of the bathroom, is one of the most common signs of Prostate Cancer. During the night a male that possibly has this cancer uses the bathroom 6 to 7 times. (“Fact Sheet”) Other symptoms may include blood in the urine or semen, delayed or slowed start of urinary stream and dribbling or leakage of urine. Bone pain or tenderness, along with pain in bowel movements, can also be a major symptom, but not as common. (“Prostate Cancer”) Although these are symptoms of Prostate Cancer, they can also be signs of other diseases and is recommended to see a doctor for diagnostic testing.

We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow? (800)

The main objective is to strengthen the existing Prostate Cancer Support Group to encompass a broader community involvement. This will be achieved with the participation of professional speakers and a multidisciplinary team approach currently utilised in caring and supporting people with a life limiting illness.

Make this November about prostate cancer and raise awareness with “Movember.” Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of men’s cancer, second to skin cancer. And it is also one of the leading causes of cancer death for men, according to the American Cancer Society. Making medical advice essential this Movember.

Bottorff, J. L., Oliffe, J. L., Halpin, M., Phillips, M., McLean, G., & Mroz, L. (2008). Women and prostate cancer support groups: The gender connect?.Social Science & Medicine, 66(5), 1217-1227.

In their article“Assessment of Distress and Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Over the Course of Chemotherapy”, they hope to inform potential cancer nurses about the pain that different patients of different backgrounds go through. They record the pain and quality of life from before treatment begins, while treatment is going on, and after treatment. The authors do not explain how adolescents thought process help or inhibit them from making the right choice, but it shows that they are taking the what the patients say to heart. This is the reason that I chose this article. Also the range of education varied through the study participants. Some patients only had a level of elementary school. If these people are capable enough to not only understand the consequences of treatment , but they also understood the conditions of the study that they are participating in. This article also seems helpful because it is a part of a peer reviewed academic journal. So it is understood that the two author really know what they are talking about.

Cancer is not to be taken lightly. This disease does happen to a number of people all over the world every day. A thorough understanding of cancer is vital. This education will provide patients and their loved ones with crucial information about available treatments and how best to cope with the effects of having cancer. This article contains much advice on helping cancer patients cope with the deadly disease.

To begin with, I will look at what cancer is. I would like to look at cancer as a disease and the social determinants of this perspective. I would then like to investigate cancer as an illness and look at the narrative of this experience including its social determinants. Finally, I will address the differences and similarities between the two.

Dealing with any life threatening disease can play a huge tool on your life. Having a disease such as cancer can leave those affected by it to look at life from a totally different prospective. It tends to lead people to examine their life and look for its meaning. To some, this aspect of having cancer may be the most valuable. It gives patients the ability to seek a positive meaning of their life. Quality of life can mean different things to different individuals. For some cancer patients it may mean to gain support from people. Cancer patients may also use the quality of life to help take one day at a time and regain as much control of their life as they reasonable could. Cancer can demonstrate multiple symptoms. Some symptoms are subtle and some are not considered to be subtle at all. Some symptoms of cancer affecting quality of life in patients would be cancer type and stage, as some types of cancer do not present any symptoms until they are in advanced stages, time since diagnosis, patient acceptance, intensity of the disease and the level of psychological distress experienced by caregivers (Heydarnejad, M., Hassanpour, D. A., & Solati, 2011).

Prostate cancer is the most prevalent nonskin cancer among men in the United States and is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. While prostate cancer is most regularly diagnosed in men at the age of 65 years and older, the occurrence can begin at 50. One in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. As researchers explore this form of cancer; men also need to know it’s essential to understand early prostate cancer is treatable. By these patients exploring these insights and investigating the lived experience of older men, it can provide a positive coping mechanisms.

305). The abstract of this article is instrumental in providing the reader with a clear summary of the study. A brief overview, the aim to explore the experiences of breakthrough pain among palliative patients, is followed by the research problem, palliative patients are experiencing significant suffering because of breakthrough pain (Pathmawathi, Beng, Li, Rosli, Sharwend, Kavitha, & Christopher, 2015, p.552). Pathmawathi et al, (2015), describes the study design as qualitative study, of 21 palliative patient’s suffering from breakthrough pain, based open-ended interviews that generated five (5) different major themes (discussed in research findings) (p. 552). Additionally, the authors made recommendations to assess the five major themes discovered to include using non-pharmacologic approaches, education and guidance on pain management and the use of more sensitive approaches related to pain perception by healthcare workers (Pathmawathi et al., 2015,

If people could just understand – really understand –what goes on in the mind of someone who has received a cancer diagnosis, things would be different. Alas, this level of understanding seems to be ever-elusive. What they do not realise is that what they are seeing on the outside does not always marry up with what's happening on the inside. It is possible that people can not relate to it until it happens to them. I have stage 4 advanced metastatic prostate cancer, and many continue to tell me that I look great. After that I don’t hear from them, because they see me as the same person before the illness. Inside, however, I am different, because I still have the cancer illness. How many times have I heard "I don’t know if I could do it?" Frankly,

Many psychologists feel that psychological treatment is also a good way to teach patients how to endure their physical treatments. Many of these treatments present physical problems, but the treatments are almost more taxing on the mind. “Research clearly shows that unrelieved pain can slow recovery, create burdens for patients and their families and increase costs to the health care system.” (Rabasca, 1999). In overcoming anything whether it is a task for work, school or anything that can be physically and mentally draining like cancer, it is important to keep a strong mind and a positive outlook no matter how rough it is. Most patients of cancer are so far