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    Everyone in the world today has been impacted by cancer in some way. Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in both men and women in the United States. In 1987, it surpassed breast cancer to become the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Lung cancer causes more deaths than the next three most common cancers combined (colon, breast and pancreatic). Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other parts of the body, such as tissues and the bloodstream

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    I. Introduction of Cancer and Pancreatic Cancer The human body is composed of trillions of living cells. Normal body cells develop, split to make new cells, and perish in a systematized manner. During the course of a human’s primary years, they are still developing and normal cells divide more rapidly. When a child grows into an adult, majority of cells divide for the sole purpose of replacing exhausted, impaired, or dying cells. Cancer originates in cells that are part of the body that starts to

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    Abstract In this Paper we discuss about Psychological Effects of Cancers, when we are live with cancer we are face many mental and physical problems and this type of people doing higher efforts to cope with cancer. Introduction There are many types of cancers. In America many person are live with cancer. So in this research I tried to present mental effect of cancer patient. How they fill and if we have proper information about disease so It’s could be easy to understand it and solve it. Basic Mental

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    Introduction Eradication of cancer is one of the key challenges for medicine in the 21st century, breast cancer being the most common type of cancer in women, worldwide (Arteaga and Baselga, 2012, Vidal et al., 2012 and Weinstein et al., 1997).Breast cancers are classified on the basis of expression of hormone receptors i.e., Estrogen receptor, Progesterone receptor and HER2. The subtypes are as follows: • Luminal tumors (HR +) • HER2 amplified tumors • Triple negative breast cancer tumors (TNBC) Approximately

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    invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. In 2016, a projected 246,660 new cases of invasive breast cancer are estimated to be detected, along with an additional 61,000 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. There are greater than 2.8 million women with a diagnosis of breast cancer in the United States, including women presently being treated and women who have completed treatment. Research developments over the past twenty years have ultimately altered the prognosis of breast cancer care. In recent

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    Colorectal cancer mainly starts at colon or the rectum. They are common in most of the way like features, but they have different treatment. What is the different between colon cancer and rectal cancer? Colon cancer happens first four to five feet of the large intestine and rectal cancer happens in the last few inches of the large intestine where it is connected to anus. (cancercenter.com) Colon is located in the digestive system. There are two parts of the digestive system. Upper part of the digestive

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    people in the world suffer from cancer. In the year 2017, it is estimated that nearly 2 million new cancer cases will occur in the United States, leading to approximately more than half a million deaths (Cancer Facts & Figures, 2016, p.1). However, despite the drastic numbers shown in this data, it is almost a 20% decrease from data collected in previous years (Tao & Kiera, 2015, p.1). The increased survival rate of cancer patients is mainly due to advances in cancer research and the incorporation

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    Pancreatic Cancer is a form of cancer in which malignant cancer cells invade the pancreas, a gland that produces digestive fluid and hormones that regulate blood sugar. There are two types of pancreatic cancer: exocrine and endocrine cancer. The malignant cells can infiltrate either the exocrine pancreatic cells, responsible for digestive fluid, or the endocrine pancreatic cells, responsible for regulatory hormones. If the pancreas’ exocrine cells are affected metabolic functions are slowed or stopped

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    The Grand Rounds Research Project: Breast Cancer To hear you have breast cancer can be a very shocking thing. “Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among women in America as of 2015” (breastcancer,2015). First step is to know what you are dealing with when your doctor believes you have cancer, you will want to know what cancer is and how your doctor can detect it. Next your doctor will go over different stages of breast cancer that will help come to a conclusion on

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    Breast Cancer The twentieth century has often been called and known as the cancer century. The reason being is that throughout the century, there have been more than a hundred types of cancer discovered across the world. In addition to the discovery of these many cancers, there has been an enormous medical effort to fight all kinds of cancer across the world. In the early decades of the century, cancer was considered to be a fatal disease, resulting in a high number of deaths. Although many

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