National Cancer Institute

Sample of introduction: Cancer is defined by the National Cancer Institute as “the name given to a group of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” Cancer can develop at almost any part of the human body and anyone can develop cancer, although risk typically increases with age because most cancers tend to require many years to develop. Typically, human cells tend to grow and divide and ultimately form

Cancer is defined by the National Cancer Institute as “the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” Cancer can develop at almost any part of the human body and anyone can develop cancer, although risk typically increases with age because most cancers tend to require many years to develop. “Normally, human cells grow and divide to form new cells as the body needs them. When

The NIH Clinical Center is one of 27 centers at NIH (NIH, 2015). Others include the national eye institute and the national cancer institute, along with many others. They are located in Bethesda Maryland but they also have facilities in Montana, Arizona, and North Carolina (NIH, 2015). NIH as a whole provides information on the latest health trends and newest healthcare technologies. There is information for consumers needing a doctor referral or medical information, as well as information for professionals;

“According to the 2014 Surgeon General’s Report, there have been more than 20 million smoking-related deaths in the United States since 1964; 2.5 million of those deaths were among non-smokers who died from exposure to secondhand smoke.” (American Cancer Society, 2015). Trying to quit the use of any tobacco product is truly a difficult battle. There are many cessation options to overcome this battle. These options include, pharmaceutical drugs, nicotine replacement, and behavioral therapies. Although

The SEER is a population-based cancer database by National Cancer Institute. The SEER 13 represents approximately 14% of the population of the United States and includes 13 cancer registries - San Francisco-Oakland, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Seattle (Puget Sound region), Utah, Atlanta, San Jose-Monterey, Los Angles, Alaska Natives, and rural Georgia. High quality data are collected from hospitals and cancer treatment centers. The database includes primary tumor site, staging

“describes a dynamic, ongoing process in which personal factors, environmental factors, and human behavior exert influence upon each other” (National Cancer Institute, pp. 19, 2005). Three main factors of the social cognitive theory that affect the likelihood of a person performing a behavior are self-efficacy, goals, and outcome expectancies (National Cancer Institute, pp. 20, 2005). A goal of this project is to help improve or maintain the self-efficacy of people living with SCIs and their caregivers

There are 12 major types of childhood cancer 1. Leukemias (blood cancers) and brain cancers combined account for more than half of all new cases of pediatric cancer. a. One third of all cases are leukemias b. The most common form of leukemia is ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) c. The survival rate of ALL in 1962 was 4% http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index

Although few relevant surveys of practice patterns exist, it appears that physicians caring for cancer patients in the United States who recommend medicinal Cannabis predominantly do so for symptom management. On the other hand there are those who believe marijuana is detrimental to the health of those who use it. The National Institute on Drug Abuse for believes that marijuana use has many long- and short-term implications. These implications include increased heart

HINTS is an acronym for Health Information National Trends Survey and its purpose is to collect cancer-related data on a national level (HINTS, 2007). The goal of HINTS is to assess how information pertaining to cancer is accessed, how the risk of developing cancer is viewed by the public, how the course of communication has changed, and how the patterns of health has changed through the course of the past several years (HINTS, 2007). Once data has been collected, researchers are able to gain a better

The revolution of technology has made it possible to discover new medical drugs better than centuries before. Since the dawn of time, mankind has always sought out ways to protect, heal and even prolong their life from even the most death threating of diseases, but as quick as new medical cures arrive on shelfs, so too does mankind’s resistance to these new medical drugs as well. Most drugs today are derived from plant molecules found on land; such as, aspirin from willow bark, and morphine from