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    Running head: APPROACH TO CARE AND THE CANCER PATIENT Approach to Care and the Cancer Patient Jennifer Swartz Grand Canyon University NRS 410 October 28, 2012 Approach to Care and the Cancer Patient “When it comes to cancer care, studies suggest that survival rates improve for patients when they are cared for by a multidisciplinary team” (Approach to Care, 2012, p. 1). This quote from the Wilmot Cancer Center’s article on how to approach care with cancer patients sums up two key pieces

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    Breast Cancer What would you do if you found out you had breast cancer? Who would you tell first? How would you deal with it? The diagnosis of breast cancer is becoming more common today; we need to know what the symptoms are, and how to help prevent it. Breast cancer is the leading reason of death in women in the United States; it has increased greatly over the last 30 years. Many people wonder why it has increased so much in the last few years, and there are many reasons that it has. Breast

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    The human body is made of about 37 trillion cells, which work together in collaboration to keep your body functioning correctly. When a cancer or a disease attacks healthy cells, it overtakes the entire cell’s functions and rapidly multiplies into other corrupt cells. It is very important to the safety of a person’s life to be educated on the effects of cancer and how to detect them, because it is a wildfire like disease, once it has spread it is extremely hard to control. Breast cancer intrigues

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    Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the world. Though the unknown nature of breast cancer etiology is still on debate, there are numerous risk factors that influence the development of the disease including genetic, environmental, hormonal, sociobiological and physiological influences. The impact of breast cancer is deep in women diagnosed with the disease and their families with fear and anxiety over the eventual outcome of the disease manifesting itself through behavioral changes

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    Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to establish the HER2 status when IHC yielded equivocal results. The interpretation of HER2 FISH results (HER2- to-CEP 17 ratio and gene copy number) was as follows: positive HER2 amplification, FISH ratio > 2.2 or HER2

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    Epidermi Skin Cancer

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    form of cancer in the United States according to the CDC (2015) (3). There are three common forms of skin cancer that are distinguished by the type of cells affected. Non-melanomas are cancers of surface tissues (carcinomas). The two most common types are basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. Melanoma is more dangerous but less common. Skin cancer occurs when there is an uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells in a layer of the

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    Case Report: HPV-related adenoid cystic carcinoma of the nasopharynx Robert J. Chouake, B.S.1, Alfred-Marc Iloreta MD2, DEMICCO, WENIG 3 1 Westchester Medical Center at New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA 2 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA 3 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA Corresponding Author Alfred-Marc Iloreta MD Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York

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    increases with age. This incidence rate of bladder cancer in the Males is higher than females, it’s higher 3 to 4 times in male than femal. The most common types of bladder cancer are transitional cell carcinoma that recapitulates the normal histology of the urothelium, it is more properly urothelial cell carcinoma. The five years survival rates of bladder cancer after surgery and other choice of treatments are around 77% as reported in the United States [3]. 5.2 Epidemiology

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    Pap Test Research Paper

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    Also known as the Papanicolaou test, a pap test is carried out on a sample of cells from the cervix to check for abnormalities that may be indicative of cervical cancer. The cells are scraped from the opening of the cervix are examined under a microscope. You lie on the table and place your feet in stirrups. The health care provider gently places an instrument called a spectrum into the vagina to open it slightly. This allows the provider to see inside the vagina and cervix. Cells are gently scraped

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    Laryngeal carcinoma is considered as the most common head and neck neoplasm diagnosed by the otolaryngologists (40% of patients had stage III or IV when first evaluated), while 98% have squamous cell carcinoma (the most common pathological type); in addition, the incidence of lymph node metastasis depends on the tumour stage (30% for T4 lesions).1 Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) as an investigational tool in treatment of the clinical N0 neck aiming to prevent morbidity associ-ated with elective

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