Oncology

National Cancer Institute (2017) estimates about 10,270 new cancer cases will be diagnosed in children in 2017 and about 1,190 are expected to die from this disease. Children cancers are treated and evaluated differently from adult cancers. Pediatric oncology is a field that specializes in the care for children diagnosed with cancer. Cancer treatments vary and can differ depending on the type of cancer and the stage it is currently in. Like most adult cancer treatments, pediatric

Cancer, by virtue of its knack to transform continuously, has become one of the biggest challenges of the modern oncology. Therefore by doing so, cancerous cells develop resistance to the most of the common treatments viz chemotherapy and radiotherapy (Hanahan and Weinberg, 2011). Although initial treatments may be efficacious in restriction of the disease, but then during the course of time remaining cancer cells acclimatize and develop resistance to the treatments (Liang et al., 2010). Advanced

chemotherapy, with less than a 5 percent chance of curing the deadly disease. Sadly, the personal account of this young child is highlighted in “Tell the Children” in the Journal of Clinical Oncology—written by Joanne Hilden, Jan Watterson, and Jody Chrastek, all from a hospital’s department of Hematology/Oncology. Not only does this young girl have to fight a relentless cancer, but she has to also go through this battle without understanding what she is dealing with. Hilden, Watterson, and Chrastek

Pediatric oncology nurses are given the unique opportunity to make connections and build long-term relationship with their patients and families. Standard treatment protocol for many childhood cancers span over the course of years, with long-term surveillance and follow up visits after treatment has finished. Due to their patient’s chronic diagnoses and the acuity of their conditions, pediatric oncology nurses work in an environment of increased stress. The high stress environment puts the nurses

I would like to be considered for the D.Phil. position in Radiation Oncology at the University of Oxford and hope to demonstrate my ability to excel in this position. I am hard-working and extremely keen to pursue a career in science and would be well suited to undertake a D.Phil. in the field of Radiation Oncology. I am clinically qualified as my undergraduate was in Medicine and Surgery, following my graduation I chose to pursue a career in cancer sciences so I joined university of Glasgow

Oncology: Beating Cancer One Day at a Time It is a world epidemic, “the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease.”(CDC, Statistics for Different Kinds of Cancer). Bringing not only physical dame but as well as psychological damage. I’m speaking of course on cancer. Cancer affects the lives of millions on this world. One day you might see a cancer patient high in spirits, feeling great to be alive, while he next day you may see them broken asking themselves

CHICKENS This is a photograph of Francis Peyton Rous. He lived from 1879-1970. From 1909 to 1911, he made two innovative discoveries that are now the foundation blocks of modern virology and oncology. First he discovered that a malignant tumor (a sarcoma in chickens) transmissible; it was the first transmissible solid tumor discovered. Secondly, he found that the tumor-inducing factor could be passed through a Berkefeld ultrafilter known to retain bacteria. Francis Peyton Rous was born on October

Oncology provides a hub of opportunity for research on Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs). Cancer patients experience many symptoms and losses of functional ability which may not be measurable with tests or imaging procedures. Osoba, 2011 states that it is necessary to rely on patients self-reporting. In Oncology there is a wide scope of clinical settings in which PROMs can be measured. This can be adjuvant treatment or primary treatment with intent to cure or even palliative treatment (Osoba

In today’s biotech marketplace, oncology leads the therapeutic research and commercial space. Cancer tops the charts as one of the leading causes of death in the United States and around the world (antibody-Drug Conjugates). Early stages of cancer treatment often involve surgery and radiation therapy. However, chemotherapy drugs, often a last resort, are leading the market in therapeutics for cancer treatment. Most chemotherapy drugs on the market today do not have the ability to target the cancer

the Infusion center are only oncology nurses. The oncology nurses draw blood, administer chemotherapy, and omit blood and platelet transfusions to the patients. 2. The types of services offered at the infusion center is the act of transfusing different types of medications and blood or platelets. 3. The oncology nurses determined diagnoses by running blood tests, checking vital signs, and getting further advises on what to do by oncology doctors. 4. The oncology nurses would give benadryl or