Case Study 94 (Small cell lung cancer) 1. What is fiberoptic bronchoscopy‚ and what information will fiberoptic bronchoscopy with endobronchial lung biopsy provide? Bronchoscopy is a procedure that allows the doctor to directly visualize the interior passageways of the lower respiratory tract through a bronchoscope (a long‚ narrow‚ fiberoptic‚ lighted tube inserted through the nose or mouth). With the bronchoscope‚ the doctor can see the larynx (voice box)‚ trachea (windpipe)‚ bronchi (large airways
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the disease itself was responsible for its increasing capability to inflict deaths and therefore cause higher mortality rates worldwide. In the quest to cure cancer‚ different modalities were developed by oncologists namely surgery‚ irradiation‚ chemotherapy‚ endocrine therapy‚ gene therapy‚ and organ transplantation (Bast et al.‚ 2000). However‚ utilization of these methods of therapeutic approaches did not give a complete response on killing all cancer cells and produced adverse effects on normal
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MEDICAL MINISTRY What matters is the stand a physically ill patient takes toward his predicament‚ the attitude he chooses toward his suffering. He may choose to be angry‚ or depressed‚ or discover a meaning in his suffering. In January 1998‚ my husband and I sat in silence and shock in the doctor’s office as the doctor pronounced that my husband had lymphoma and would need to see an oncologist for treatment. As we walked through the car park to our car‚ my husband was filled with such anger and
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Leukemia is the tenth most prevalent cancer found in humans. The most common type of leukemia is acute myeloid leukemia. This type of leukemia begins in immature myeloid cells: white blood cells‚ red blood cells‚ or cells that make platelets known as megakaryocytes. Acute myelogenous leukemia is different from chronic myelogenous leukemia in that it spreads quicker and is much more deadly than the latter. Acute myeloid leukemia is characterized by the location of development‚ in stem cells‚ which
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currently available treatments necessitate the development of effective tumor-selective therapies. Neural stem cells (NSCs) possess inherent tumor tropic properties that enable them to overcome many obstacles of drug delivery that limit effective chemotherapy strategies for breast cancer. We report that increased NSC tropism to breast tumor cell lines is strongly correlated with the invasiveness of cancer cells. Interleukin 6 (IL-6) was identified as a major cytokine mediating NSC tropism to invasive
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extensive research is in patients who are undergoing chemotherapy for cancer who have reported that marijuana controls symptoms of nausea and vomiting‚ increases appetite‚ and improves sleep. One study‚ in which 362 participants undergoing chemotherapy who had breast‚ colon‚ lung‚ lymphoma‚ or other malignancies showed that “cannabinoids are more effective than placebo and comparable to antiemetics such as prochlorperazine and ondansetron for chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting” (Cotter‚ 2009). Marijuana
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receive empiric antibiotics while in the emergency department‚ low risk patients may be effectively managed in the outpatient setting subsequent to emergent management. Reported was a case of FN in a patient who had received one round of ABVD chemotherapy for Hodkins Lymphoma. Her total length of hospital stay was 7 days during which‚ her primary treatment plan consisted of IV antibiotics and granulocyte colony stimulating factor. For those patients with FN and are not at low risk‚ it is universally
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Cancer is a dangerous disease that is caused by an uncontrolled group of abnormal cells in the body. Cancerous cells‚ also known as malignant tumors or neoplasm‚ begin to divide without stopping and invade surrounding tissues. The body is made up of trillions of cells‚ which means cancer can start from almost anywhere in the body. Human cells grow and divide to form new cells continuously. When cells grow old or become damaged they die and new cells are formed to take their place. This process
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WE ALL WALK IN DIFFERENT SHOES “We all walk in different shoes”‚ is the motto of an ad that is used for baldisbeautiful.org & KennethCole.com of Sharon Blynn writer‚ actor and founder of Bald is Beautiful.org and it is also an advertisement for Kenneth Cole (American clothing designer) clothing line. The advertisement for both the clothing line and the bald is beautiful.org was in Sunday papers in 2008. American clothing designer Kenneth Cole uses his socially conscious advertising to challenge
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year! Which means around 0.1% of the all the people in the world die from cancer. The way we cure cancer now is very risky and crude and cannot cure the disease consistently all the time. The current treatment we use to cure cancer is called chemotherapy‚ which kills fast-growing cells‚ such as cancer cells‚ red blood cell‚ white blood cells … etc. As a result of killing the good cells‚ it will render the patient to become very sick. A new type of technology is being applied for cancer‚ it is called
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