Essays on Oncology

Cancer only happens to some people It doesn’t happen to people like me, my family, or my neighbors. Things like that don’t happen to people like us…. people who exercise, eat three times a day, and never forget to drink lots of water. Cancer skips…

In 2019, it is estimated that over 40,000 women will die from breast cancer in the United States alone and 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer over her lifetime (National Breast Cancer Foundation, 2019). Cancer is an illness that affects everyone, and has…

Cancer is a life-altering disease that affects not only the patient but the people around them as well. Cancer has become so prevalent that many families are used to its harmful ways. Cancer affects the totality of the patient. The patient and their perception of…

Many people know of someone who has breast cancer. That is because breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women following skin cancer. It is also the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women, behind lung cancer. Second place is not a good…

There are so many illnesses found on this planet, some of them can be healed others had been killing people for years. Cancer is not just one malady but a huge group of almost hundreds of them. In people’s opinion there is no scarier analysis…

Skin malignant growth was found as long prior as the mid 1800s. It was found by the innovator of the stethoscope, a French doctor called Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec. Melanoma is the most destructive, executing around 55,000 individuals everywhere, each year. Melanoma is a type…

Skin cancer has had an immense impact on my life. As a child, I was taken to the dermatologist to have a mole on my nose checked out to see if it were cancerous. I ended up having a minor biopsy to remove the spot,…

Cancer is one of the most fast-growing and fatal diseases in today’s generation. Information about the stages of different cancers, their diagnosis, treatments and the early detectable symptoms are essential knowledge that everyone should read up on to be aware of symptoms that might be…

In the female reproductive system, a woman has one ovary on each side of her uterus, and these ovaries produce both hormones and eggs for fertilization when a woman procreates (Mayo Clinic Staff). Fallopian tubes are “a pair of long, slender tubes on each side…

BRCA. Four simple letters. Four simple letters that can mean nothing to the world. To a person, four simple letters can become the world. Four simple letters which if you let get inside your head, may destroy you. Four simple letters that can change the…

Introduction Although cancer incidence increases with advancing age,many young people are getting diagnosed with cancer every year. Approximately, 40-80% of females experience possible infertility as a result of their cancer treatments [1]. This ontoward experience of gonadotoxic therapy related infertility can lead to psychological stress.With…

Ovarian cancer is amongst the most deadliest cancers. It is the most widely recognized gynecological malignancy, third driving after cervical and uterine disease. Momenimovahed et al. (2018) states that it has the most elevated death rate and worst prognosis. While ovarian disease has the lowest…

Fundamentally any lung cancer detection system uses a variety of algorithms and techniques for pre-processing, image segmentation and feature extraction which lead to a difference in accuracy and results. Such methods and some of their details are mentioned in this section. A. Kulkarni proposed a…

Lung cancer is the worst kind of cancers in the world, causing great majority of deaths among all the various kinds of cancers. The pathophysiology of lung cancer is quite complex to understand and is affected by various factors, the most common one being smoking….

One of every 16 individuals in the US will be determined to have lung cancer growth in their lifetime. In excess of 228,000 individuals in the US will be determined to have this disease within the year, with people finding out each 2 to 3…

Breast Cancer Screening Breast Cancer is a common cancer in Hong Kong. It can be divided into invasive and non-invasive. Breast cancer does not only exist in females, but also exist in males. According to the Centre for Health Protection, there are total 4108 females…

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy and is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in American women. Currently there are no FDA approved vaccines for breast cancer. For this reason development of a therapeutic breast cancer vaccine is an area of…

Breast cancer is a major health problem that is regulated by several mediators ,vary from atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). These signals were produced whether from the tumor itself and/or adjacent stroma, promote tumor vasculature ,tumor…

Introduction Summary of the paper – Detecting Skin lesions in dermoscope images is very difficult due to indefinite lesion boundaries. A type of cancer known as malignant melanoma is increasing all over the world. The reported cases each year due to this cancer is alarming….

Introduction At present, prostate cancer (PCa) disease has maintained a significant health burden among the middle-aged and the elderly males across the globe. Data from Asia, Middle East, North America, Europe, and the African continents portray an increasing magnitude in the incidence, prevalence, morbidity and,…

Pesticides are substances used to eradicate, control, inhibit or repel harmful or otherwise undesirable living organisms. Pesticides have a wide range of intended uses including prevention of crop damage, material preservation, and insect repellent. Its use can be widely seen across many sectors including agriculture,…

Definition (Signs, Symptoms and Complications) and Etiology of Prostate Cancer Prostate cancer is a common cancer that occurs in males. The cancer begins in the prostate gland which is only found in males and it is when the cells in that gland begin to grow,…

What is Prostate Cancer? Prostate is a small gland at the base of the bladder, which carriers urine from the bladder to the urethra. Most prostate cancer starts in the outer gland cells of the prostate and are known as acinar adenocarcinomas, this type of…

Lung cancer is a type of cancer that starts in your lungs. Lung cancer is one of the most common causes of death in both men and women. Lungs are organs in your chest that inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Depending on how much…

Lung Cancer is cancer that originates in the lungs or has traveled to the lungs. Every year 1,370,000 people die from lung cancer. There are two main types of lung cancer, small cell, which starts in the bronchi, and non-small cell, which is the case…

Is breast cancer treatable and what can we do to prevent it? Something all women don’t know about is how to prevent it and what causes it. “Breast cancer is a disease in which cells in the breast grow out of control”. Everyone says that…

Introduction Immunosuppressive therapy is otherwise known as Biological therapy is used in the treatment of several diseases such as cancer, auto-immune diseases, Inflammatory bowel diseases and in after transplantation procedures and in any other condition where there is a need to under activate or sensitize…

Colostrum is the special form of milk that mammals create for the first few days after giving birth. It contains essential vitamins, minerals and protective materials for survival. The purpose of colostrum is to provide all of the valuable nutrition and antibodies for a new…

Every morning, I would wake up to the sound of the alarm and I would open my eyes. I would stand still, frozen, thinking about how I am going to survive another ordinary and boring day of a fourteen-year-old self who went to school and…

Mobile phones started to become wildly available around the world in the 1990s, but since then, their use has drastically increased. Considering the still growing number of mobile phone users, the amount of time people spend on their mobiles has also risen throughout the decades….

A great passion for designing electronic chips and a deep curiosity for human communication over long distances were the motivation behind my pursuing Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and telecommunication. I was a sincere, diligent, and high-performing student all through my school days, and it…

Endophytes associated with a medicinal plant may be capable of producing the same metabolite as the host plant and thus may also prove to be promising from biotechnological and pharmaceutical perspective. Therefore, I aim to study anti-cancerous and antioxidant potential of the endophytes associated with…

Cervical Cancer is a tumor that starts in the cells of the cervixThe most common type of cervical cancer causing 80 to 85% of all cases is called squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix or SCCThis type of cancer starts in the thin, flat cells…

The structure of culture can be evaluated at numerous stages, with the phrase “level” signifying the measure that the cultural phenomenon is perceptible to you as the applicant or viewer. This analysis will describe the deep elements of the culture in a support group. Cancer…

Introduction Cancer, heart disease, and death. These are just a few of the hazards that smoking presents. As long as smoking has existed, teenagers have been abusing it. Smoking has become ingrained in teen culture through movies and years of trying to fit in. But…

Pomalidomide is a drug which is usually taken along with other drugs like Dexamethasone. It is generally used in patients with Myeloma and who have tried other medication (at least two) which did not work for them. It is a cancer drug which also goes…

MCF-7 cell line also known as human breast adenocarcinoma cell line. It was first isolated from the breast tissue of a 69 year old Caucasian woman in the year 1970. She received 2 mastectomies, the first tissue removed was benign, and five years later she…

Cancer occurs when the gene that is responsible for regulating growth of the cells undergo mutations or abnormal changes. These genes reside in each of the cell’s nucleus and acts as the ‘control room’. In the process of cell growth in our body, the new…

Background In Western countries colorectal cancer represents a significant cause for mortality in both genders. Several genes are involved in genetic alterations such as gene mutations and epigenetic modifications. These genes could led to colorectal cancer by regulating cell mechanisms such as proliferation and apoptosis….

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disease resulting from neoplastic transformation of multipotent stem cell. The disease is characterized by high levels of leukocytes, splenomegaly, myeloid hyperplasia in bone marrow and high levels of mature myeloid cells in peripheral blood (Elhoseiny et al.,…

Smocking has a lot of adverse effects on health, but still people continue to use it. According to U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, the United State accounts every year for more than 480,000 deaths or about 1 in 5 deaths which are…

The deepest connections a person develops throughout their entire life are those they establish with their parents. On November 12, 2021, my father passed away due to stomach cancer. Our family was so joyed by the birth of my sister at the time we were…

Malignant melanoma is a type of sort cancer that is very severe and is frequent to be pinpoint. Particularly since it has a high danger of growing to other parts of the frame. Malignant melanoma commonly starts in skin cells called melanocytes. Melanocytes are accountable…

Hazel Lancaster is a bright teenage girl, whose world was slightly dimmed by lung cancer. At age thirteen she was diagnosed terminally ill and was given a drug named phalanxifor. Phalanxifor gave Hazel an incalculable number of more years to live. Most people in Hazel’s…

Here we sought to determine the relationship between STAT3 activity and Galectin-3 (Gal-3) and to investigate the cytotoxic effect of PectaSol-C Modified Citrus Pectin (Pect-MCP) as a specific competitive inhibitor of Galectin-3 (Gal-3) in combination with paclitaxel (PTX) to kill ovarian cancer cell multicellular tumor…

Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Targeted therapy is a newer cancer treatment that uses drugs designed to interfere with specific molecules necessary for tumor growth and progression. The primary goal of targeted therapies is to defeat cancer cells with more precision…

Abstract: Approximately 50% of human melanoma is driven by the BRafV600 mutations, the therapy of which is the subject of study in the Project 1 of the Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. These tumors are highly immune suppressive and often resistant to the immune…

Skin Cancer Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer, and in most cases, the most preventable and easiest to treat. Skin cancer makes up 40% of the annual diagnoses of cancer, and has been estimated to occur in 2-3 million people…

A beach-bronzed tan, year-round, is what nearly every teenager wants growing up in California, but it does not come without a price. Growing up in Southern California, I called the beach my second home and experienced first-hand, the dangers of achieving a sun-kissed glow. Ever…

It is estimated that 285 million people are visually impaired. 39 million of them are blind and the other 246 million have low vision (Gardner). There are certain people that are born with eye issues or even blind, others receive their eye issues as age…

Prostate Cancer What is prostate cancer? Prostate cancer usually develops in older men. The prostate gland (which only men have) lies just beneath the bladder. It is approximately the size of a chestnut and its primary function is to produce fluid which enriches and protects…

The word cancer is a frightening term for anyone, especially because there are over 200 different types of cancer that can affect various parts of the body. Certain types of cancer can vary between men and women, but a particular cancer that affects roughly 22,000…

Cancer is one of the most significant things in today’s society. Everyone has been affected by cancer by either having it or knowing someone who has had it in some form. Cancer has almost become similar to war in the sense that everyone knows someone…

The social media that i used was Facebook. I used facebook because its the only media that i use that i can get a lot of my friends inform, and they can share it with there friends. The percentage of the group that participated in…

Leukemia Research The silence in that moment is the most deafening sound the students have ever heard. They all look around, tears in some eyes, as they take in the faces of their classmates, all affected by the loss. After fighting a hard and difficult…

A. Six months after her 30th birthday, Lilly was diagnosed with acute Leukemia. She and her husband, Jake, have no children together. She has been relatively healthy most of her life, despite suffering from minor medical mishaps. Lilly’s socioeconomic factor is that she is a…

Cancer is known to be a multi-step process that involves different stages like initiation, promotion, progression and metastasis. Chemical carcinogens including Arsenic, Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Chloroform, PAH (Poly aromatic hydrocarbon, THM (Trihalomethanes) elements can change any of these processes to induce their carcinogenic effects. Approximately…

The sun’s dark side quantified it is a primary cause of skin cancer because behind 80 per cent of wrinkles and spots. Do you know How can you enjoy a minute outdoors? What Best Dermatologist in Jaipur is done—with the good protection techniques, they’ve made…

Cancer is a word that has become too popular, and a disease that has ruined too many lives. Cancer is a painful disease where abnormal cells grow out control and spread throughout the body destroying the body tissues. These abnormal cells divide, pushing the normal…

Background Laryngo-pharyngeal cancers comprise 1-2% of all cancers worldwide. Pharyngeal cancers (excluding nasopharynx) account for 6.6% and laryngeal cancers 4.8% of all cancers in men and 0.5% and 1 % in women respectively.1 In India, head and neck cancers are one of the most common…

In 2004, the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) published a study which indicated that chemotherapy only had a positive outcome for specific cancer-treatment subjects (Paik, et al., 2004). Medical research shows that heritability can influence how certain pharmaceutical drugs elicit reactions when…

INTRODUCTION Cao et al., 2010 reported that soil is the primary reservoir of radionuclides and other pollutants in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biota, and thus plays a fundamental role in the overall nuclide cycle in nature. Soil pollution by radionuclides are severely dangerous for animal,…

Cancer is an omnipresent fear that is existing in most people’s lives. It seems almost invincible; a faceless disease that creeps in when you least expect it, killing without discrimination or mercy. But I think the scariest part about it is that it remains an…

Apoptosis is a physiological process that is important in tissue homeοstasis.63 Inadequate inhibition of apoptosis results in cell accumulatiοn which is a hall mark of cancer, Excessive apoptosis leads to οrgan failure and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinsοn diseases, AIDS, and ischemic diseases….

Different types of epidemiological studies have been carried out to understand the relationship between exposure to pesticides and cancer. These pesticides can enable the cancer process by either nongenotoxic mechanisms such as promotion, peroxisme proliferation, and hormone imbalance, or by affecting carcinogenic process in a…

Literature Review The information of this study was gathered from tertiary resources such as journals. The information that was used for this study was gathered from different journals including the Review of Marantaceae Family, Review of Donax canniformis, Antiproliferative and Cytotoxic Property of the plant…

The number of cancer diagnoses is on the rise. Every year, more people come to find that they have this disease and must decide between several life-altering treatments in order to prolong their lives, sometimes at the cost of their overall quality of life. Lung…

Introduction A. “I wanted to do something to let her know how special she would always be in my heart” is what Nancy G. Brinker said on Passionately Pink website about her sister, Susan G. Komen. To get started both Susan G. Komen and her…

Cancer treatment typically involves surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. More recently, hormonal therapy and target therapy are gained interestingly attention. In breast cancer, chemotherapy is the main approach for treatment, mainly in metastatic tumors and typically involves a combination of different drugs or a drug that…

Cancer cases are on a steep ascent. World Health Organization (WHO) has attributed cancer as being culpable for almost one in six deaths globally. In the report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) by WHO it is estimated that in two decades,…

The normal brain image contains various tissues, such as WM, GM, and CSF. To diagnose human brain structure, safe imaging techniques are used throughout the world. CT, PET, MRI, and multimodal imaging techniques, such as MRI/CT and MRI/PET, are various imaging techniques that provide information…

Introduction Cancer is a complex disease and major public health worldwide including Australia. Cancer occurs only if the cells grow abnormally beyond their usual boundaries that can then invade adjoining parts of the body, multiply out of control, and spread to other organs, which then…

Whаt if a drug wаѕ dіѕсоvеrеd that was effective аgаіnѕt breast саnсеr, colon cancer, prostate саnсеr, lung cancer, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, Chrоn’ѕ dіѕеаѕе, аnd IBS? Whаt if іt hаd no dangerous side effects, wаѕ сhеар аnd рlеntіful, аnd tаѕtу? Well, there wоuld bе dancing іn thе…

Leukemia as a type of malignant hematologic neoplasm has probably always existed as far as the science of medicine is concerned. Yet it was our understanding of leukemia which changed tremendously during the course of the last 200 years. According to many authors, French surgeon…

In the work of the functional system of oncogenesis, the nervous and endocrine systems do not participate, since they did not participate in the formation of diapausing somatic embryos in sponges and plants that have no nervous and endocrine systems. The functional system of oncogenesis…

Oncology as an important centre for researches on HRQOL. Over the decades, Oncology has become an important centre for researches on HRQOL. Patients with cancer exhibit many symptoms and losses of functional ability. Many of the symptoms and functions are not measureable with laboratory tests…

Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases worldwide. Lung cancer is the major type of cancers which increases the death rate. According to The American Cancer Society about 234,030 peoples have been suffering from lung cancer. It can be cured if it is detected…

Malignant Melanoma is one of the most rapidly increasing cancers all over the world. In 2018 around 1, 78,560 melanoma skin cancers were found in the United States of America and the rate is increasing ever since. Melanoma has been cured completely if it is…

Your daughter has leukemia and the doctor tells you, ”You can save her.” What would you do? Obviously, listen to what the doctor says. But what if he tells you he is going to create a perfect donor baby for you to conceive? Is that…

Stem cells are very unique cells that are capable of differentiating into specialized cell types. All other cells with specialized functions are produced from stem cells, in other words stem cells are like the body’s raw material cells. Furthermore, stem cells split themselves to form…