Breast Cancer Is Most Aggressive in African American Women Breast cancer is the second leading cause of deaths in American women‚ with lung cancer being the first. It is the most common cancer in women not including non-melanoma skin cancers. Breast cancer is a group of related diseases in which cells in the breast‚ most commonly in the lining of the milk ducts or milk producing glands become abnormal and divide without control or order as a normal cell would. When cancer cells break away from the
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project Breast Cancer- annotated bibliography Sarah Rasmussen College Author’s Note This final course project is being submitted on December 14‚ 2014 for Dr. Deb Bobendrier’s M232/MEA2203 Section 18 Pathophysiology course. References Wang‚ A.‚ Vachon‚ C.‚ Brandt‚ K.‚ & Ghosh‚ K. (2014). Breast density and breast cancer risk: a practical review. Mayo Clinic Proceedings‚ 89 (4)‚ 548-557. doi: 10. 1016/j.mayocp.2013.12.014 This article talks about how density in the breast leads to
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What is the importance of Breast cancer awareness? Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer often creates fear which comes out of ignorance and misconception. More than 30% of cancer cases could be prevented by modifying lifestyle or avoiding key risk factors. About 1/3rd of cancer cases could be reduced if cases are treated and detected at an early stage. Breast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of breast cancer through education on symptoms and
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Screening for Breast Cancer STATE YOUR PURPOSE: I want to inform more people how important early screening for breast cancer. Early screening can save lives. INTRODUCTION: Attention-getter: When breast cancer is detected early‚ the 5-year relative survival rate is 98 percent‚ but declines to 84 percent for regional disease and 23 percent when cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Audience motivation: Most doctors feel that early detection tests for breast cancer save thousands
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MADD Would you as a mother‚ or father want to get a shocking call about your son/daughter dead or in the hospital from having a car accident for being drunk while driving? Or because somebody was drunk while driving and they crashed into your son/or daughter and now shes in the hospital paralyzed? Well this is why MADD was incorporated on September 5‚ 1980 to help prevent drunk driving‚ and help stop underage drunk drivers or under aged drugged drivers‚ also to help and make families safer .MADD
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Purpose/Topic: Breast cancer in Men/Females Opening with Impact: “Please stand if you know of any one that has or had breast cancer. Now‚ remain standing if that person survived it. According to the American Cancer Society it is projected that in 2011-2012‚ 450 men and 39‚520 women will die from breast cancer.” Speaker Credibility= Statistic Slide: Project Slide then I will state with audience members still standing‚ “1 in 8 women and 1 in 1‚000 men will develop breast cancer over the course
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Breast Cancer Support Groups Content by Tony Johnson of Artisan Farm. You’re driving along a lonely stretch of highway. You haven’t seen another motorist in hours‚ or so it seems. You’ve been driving all day‚ and the sun is setting. A tear flows. Nobody understands you. Nobody seems to care. Nobody can relate to what you’re going through. Having breast cancer can be a lonely off-the-beaten-path stretch of road. Life can be so hard‚ and that is before you got breast cancer. But now‚ it seems impossible
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Breast Cancer [pic] Yakedia Patrick 04-29-13 4th Hour
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died of breast cancer. It is said that Komen asked one thing of Brinker while laying on her deathbed‚ to “do something so other women would not suffer her fate”. Two years later Susan G Komen became a foundation for breast cancer. As all foundations are funded through money‚ Brinker had to raise public awareness and get contributions for the cause. The first event was a polo tournament that did not have a big outcome but the following year Betty Ford‚ former first lady and breast cancer survivor
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shown that the number of cases of breast cancer amongst women has slightly decreased. However there are many women that are unaware on how they can protect themselves. It is for this reason I have decided to create this dramatic piece to show some of the causes and preventions of breast cancer can be controlled by the woman herself. This piece describes an evening at home‚ where a younger sibling educating the elder about her habits which can her to develop breast cancer‚ and that she can try to rectify
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