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    patient have the disease by giving the patient blood tests, Bone marrow tests, physical examination. The different types of treatment does not mean the patient will fully be strong again or survive. Some of the most common treatments to contest against Blood cancer is: Chemo therapy, Biological therapy (treatments that help your immune system fight off the infection), Radiation therapy, and Stem Cell transplant (replaces your infected marrow with a new good physical shape

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    Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the bone marrow. It takes hold in the plasma cells of the body. These are a specific type of white blood cell that secretes large numbers of antibodies into the blood stream and lymphatic system to help fight infection. “The annual incidence of Multiple Myeloma is 4 per 100,000 population with a peak incidence of between the sixth and seventh decade of life”. Handbook of cancer chemotherapy p.495 This shows that it is a relatively prevalent type of cancer and poses

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    For starters, cloning has said to solve the continuous problem of infertility by inserting a clone embryo into the woman’s body. This guarantees infertile couples a child, as opposed to wasting time and money on other painful and emotional procedures that don’t offer this guarantee. The next benefit offers an immense amount of growth in regenerative medicine and assists those with physical disabilities by producing clones of themselves. Why clone themselves if they have a disability? Scientists can

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    Review of Controlled Trials In a study done by Emadedin et al. in 2012, they injected MSC from each respective patients bone marrow, into six female volunteers with evidence of knee OA that was severe enough to require joint replacement surgery. The authors described a detailed, meticulous procedure in how they obtained the MSC from the patient’s bone marrow, and made it into the cells they needed for the procedure. They injected the patient’s affected knee joints with the stem cells and followed

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    be received, treatment is curable in some individuals that have thalassemia major. HSC has a high cure rate for both thalassemia patients that are class 1 and 2, but only works for those who are younger than 17 years of age, this treatment involves bone

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    individual negative effect to the body system; Methotrexate that believe could activated the tumors to be malignant and sclerosis, Cytoxan causes bleeding urine and Levamisole destroy white blood cells. Most of the chemo drug have extreme impact to the bone marrow that will suppress the cells regeneration and next weaken the immune system ( Corrie, 2004) . That’s why most patient undergo chemotherapy become weaker and other side effect such as losing appetite, hair loss and bad migraine. The chemo drugs also

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    Jan Swammerdam was a microscopist, who was the first to observe red blood cells under a microscope. He and his scholar noted that the size and shape were like “red corpuscles”. However, before the microscope, many scientists viewed red blood cells with the naked eye, and that wasn’t very helpful, but the microscope was a breakthrough in science. After his discovery, other scientists were about to figure out that they were the bodies main exchange of oxygen, and flowed throughout the capillaries

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    Pernicious Anemia Essay

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    Anemia is a disorder of the blood. It occurs when your body does not produce enough erythrocytes or red blood cells (RBCs). Without the erythrocytes oxygen can not be adequately delivered to the tissues and organs throughout the body. This will cause you to become weak and tired. A person may also experience headaches, skin pallor, and faintness. Your body may attempt to compensate for these symptoms by speeding up the heart rate and respiratory rate. This is the body’s attempt to return oxygen

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    1. What is clinical staging? - Clinical staging is what health care professionals use to provide an idea at phase the tumor is at. This is helpful in determining the outcome of the patient’s cancer. This also aids in deciding what course of treatment that would confine and eliminate the cancer. 2. What does each stage represent? Stage 0-IV - Stage 0: the tumor is first starting to appear in only one location Stage I: the tumor is still located in the same area and not yet spread. Stage II: tumor

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    issues include emancipation of a minor, genetic engineering, and limited termination of parental rights. I will be giving my opinion on these matters also. My Sister’s Keeper is about a family who conceives a child strictly for the use as bone marrow donor for her gravely ill older sister. Kate is diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at the age of two. As their doctor tells them of their options, he asks Sara and Brian, the parents, have they thought about

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