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The research showed a strong correlation between the T-stage of cancer with the disease-free survival rates (Liu et al, 2003, pp 503).... While at three years post-treatment, the same results were 82, 61 and 88% respectively.... Alongside, patients with sole radiation therapy are likely to show lesser morbidity rates of 46% compared to the 76% survival rates when treatment is carried out with radiotherapy, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy as well (Jeyakumar et al, 2006, pp 172)....
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Dissertation
Despite this, breast cancer mortality has declined gradually over the past decade to about 40,000 per year.... Although these symptoms are often caused by benign, or non-cancerous, processes, an accurate evaluation must be made of the patient's condition to rule out the possibility of cancer.... Patients with breast cancer will typically come in for treatment complaining of increased breast pain, unusual lumps felt under the skin, and/or nipple discharge when not lactating....
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Essay
The evolution of cancer treatment can be traced back to the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries when Giovanni Morgagni began conducting autopsies on dead patients.... Surgeon, Stephen Paget established that cancer cells spread over the lymph system, blood but its growth was limited to a few organs.... Consequently, it laid the foundation for the study of cancer known as oncology.... The famous 'century of the surgeon' resulted in a surge in the number of cancer patients who survived after surgery....
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Research Paper
the last 2 decades have seen a rise in the research pertaining to diagnosis and management of breast cancer resulting in early identification of the disease, early institution of treatment, more efficient treatments with less toxicity, and improved prognosis (2).... Breast cancer is the leading cause of death due to cancers in women all over the world.... million new cases of invasive breast cancer all over the world in 2008.... FDG-PET imaging is useful to restage recurrent breast cancer and metastases and also provide an overview of the response to the new treatment regimens....
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Essay
The Prostate cancer Research Foundation of Canada (PCRFC) does not advocate for its regular use by healthy men.... The PCRFC found that PSA-based prostate cancer screening shows small or missing reductions in prostate-cancer–specific deaths, and is linked to overtreatment and overdiagnosis.... This paper will discuss the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test in Canada and determine the level of the test's use in prostate cancer screening....
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Case Study
There have been eat advancements in the field of medicines and medical sciences but still it was difficult to control and suggest a proper treatment for cancer and according to the statistics, there have 13% deaths all over the world caused by cancer (Heath and Davis 02).... f we analyse the trend of cancer patients then the result shows that there have been continuous increase in the number of cancer patients over last 70 years as compare to other diseases like heart attack, pneumonia or any other disease and the problem seemed to be out of control....
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Research Paper
last, but not least, I would like to thank a number of researchers and hospital personal that put forward time in answering my questions and submitting opinions ad information that helped to give this research substance, making it a truly practical guide that I hope will benefit the hospitals of the future.... collection of awards given by many different national boards or private organizations in recognition of excellent treatment facilities for a condition, such as breast cancer, or specialized treatment method for a condition, such as a breast imaging or radiography....
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In this paper 'Common cancer treatment', evaluation of action of 2 cancer treatments: chemotherapy and radiotherapy will be done.... The aims of anti-cancer treatment in him are to control the disease locally and improve survival.... There is no family history of cancer.... The aim of combination chemotherapy is to maximize the number and type of cancer cells that are targeted with each treatment cycle and because different drugs exert their effect in different ways, a combination of drugs will have a greater effect by tackling different parts of the cell cycle....
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