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Cultural care requires making allowances for the age, ethnic background, and other personal background characteristics of a patient (Hammer Schmidt, Zagonel, and Lenardt, 2007).... This paper ''Effects of Screening Mammography on Breast cancer Mortality'' tells us that breast cancer is one of the major health risks in North America, as it is 26% of cancers diagnosed in women in the United States (Wojcik et al.... Also, any longitudinal study faces the issue that as medical science improves, long-term survival rates for cancer patients improve as well....
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Research Paper
The study "Nursing Intervention Strategy for a Critical Patient" focuses on the critical analysis of the importance of a primary intervention strategy for a patient presenting to the clinic in a critical state of hypoxia.... patient with IGE has characteristic symptoms of visual disturbances, dyspnea, irritability, somnolence, restlessness, and headache on awakening.... he primary goal of the management plan would be to demonstrate improved ventilation and adequate oxygenation as evidenced by blood gas levels within normal parameters for the patient concerned maintain clear lung fields and remain free of signs of respiratory distress and verbalize understanding of oxygen supplementation and other therapeutic interventions....
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Case Study
This essay discusses that most patients of upper gastrointestinal system cancer are able to maintain life for just few months after the diagnosis has been made.... According to the report the cancer Plan puts forth the benefit of increased investment in staff.... As the paper stresses the cancer Plan also brings to knowledge the manner in which wise investment in the new, updated, important equipments shall result in faster access to diagnosis and treatment....
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Essay
The paper "Long Term Care to Chronic Illness" argues one of the worst chronic illnesses is lung cancer.... The paper describes signs and symptoms of lung cancer, patient's mental problems, tendency to relate cancer with ageism, preventing lung cancer.... When we hear 'long term illness' it is always cancer that comes into our mind.... His/her woes grow like cancer cells and the worst part is, the patient doesn't lose consciousness even when he suffers pain like death....
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Article
World over, incidence of cancer is increasing day by day.... Various studies and research show that Breast cancer is the second most commons type of cancer in Women, followed by cancer of the Cervix, while the first place goes to Lung cancer.... Research done by Dell, show that being female and increasing age, adds to the risk of getting cancer.... The number of women in various age groups of "age 30 to 35, the incidence of breast cancer is 27....
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Essay
Though there have been remarkable technological developments in diagnostics, prevention and treatments during the last decade, according to the National Foundation for cancer Research (2010), “It is estimated that lung cancer accounts for about 15% of all new cancer cases in.... 10, but will cause nearly 30% of all cancer deaths.... Over 150000 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed in Europe every year but less than 10 percent are cured…” (Doyle, Hanks , Cherny, and Calman, K....
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Essay
The researcher of this paper "Lung cancer – Community Health Care Service" investigates the symptoms of lung cancers in general which are, (1) a persistent cough, (2) blood in a cough, (3) wheezing, (4) feeling breathlessness, (5) chest pains, and (6) a hoarse voice.... There may also be problems such as nausea and vomiting caused by anti-cancer therapy.... Roscoe et al observed that cancer-related fatigue and cancer-related sleep disorders are increasingly reported as part of a cluster of three or more interrelated symptoms, including pain, depression, and loss of concentration and other cognitive functions, suggesting that CRF and cancer-related sleep disorders may share a common underlying aetiology....
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Essay
The complex care required for this patient warrants the utilization of proactive nursing approaches for mitigating the clinical manifestations of the patient inside the healthcare setting.... The existence of a patient's vacu-drain adjacent to the site of suture indicates the requirement of consistent suction of fluid and blood at the site of surgical intervention in the context of surpassing the probability of development of integumentary infection (Donna, Ignatavicius, & Workman, 2016)....
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Case Study