Archive for the ‘Cancer’ Category
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SEEKING MEDICAL HELP: AIDA MORRIS’S STORY
In 1991, at the age of thirty-eight and with a five-year-old daughter, Aida was diagnosed with breast cancer. ‘When my GP examined my breasts he told me to go home and forget about it – that it was just a hardening of the tissue – but to come back three weeks later. At the next appointment [...]
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CANCER: VARIATIONS IN RATES
While it is true that cancer strikes people of all ages, races, cultures, and socioeconomic levels, it is equally true that some Americans are at greater risk. Overall, blacks are more likely to develop cancer than persons of any other racial and ethnic group. In 1998, incidence rates were 443 per 100,000 blacks and 403 [...]
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SUPPORTIVE CARE OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER: MONITORING PATIENTS RECEIVING ANTHRACYCLINES (TESTING FOR CARDIOTOXICITY)A.
The probability of abnormal cardiac function is increased when both the echocardiogram and the RNA are abnormal, rather than when just one of the two is abnormal.B. One modality, either echocardiogram or RNA, should be the consistent method of testing at every evaluation, with the other added when confirmatory testing is required.C. Perform studies before [...]
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WHAT IS RADIATION TREATMENT?
The expressions radiation treatment and radiotherapy mean the same thing: treatment with various forms of ionising radiation. The treatment is usually given by beaming the rays through the body from a machine which looks a bit like the ones they take X-rays with. Less commonly, radiation treatment is given by temporarily placing radioactive substances inside [...]