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- 13391: Breast Cancer Treatment
- Breast Cancer Treatment Only lung cancer kills more women each year in the United States than breast cancer does. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that over 184,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in women in 1996 (ACS Breast). Although these statistics are alarming, there are a number of treatment options available for those that are diagnosed with breast cancer. The best ... his support for increased funding for research and prevention in his recent State of the Union Address, and he urged insurance companies to pay for more mammograms. Hopefully, with the support from the White House, new treatments can be found for breast cancer, and maybe with a little luck we will have a cure by the turn of the century. Works Cited American Cancer Society. Breast Cancer. Document 004070. American Cancer Society. For Women Facing Breast Cancer. 1995. Kushner, Rose. If You've Thought About Breast Cancer. Kensington, MD: Rose Kushner Breast Cancer Advisory Center, 1994. LaTour, Kathy. The Breast Cancer Companion. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993. National Institutes of Health. National Cancer Institute. What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer. Revised August 1995.
- 13392: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... misconception about A. D. D. is that it's only present in hyperactive people, while in this subtype the people are underactive, even languid. These people are the daydreamers that drift off to their own world during class or during conversations. This type is most common in females and the core symptom is distractibility. This, while being the most frequent, is also the hardest to diagnose because it seems that the ... benefits understanding it would give. WORKS CITED CH. A. D. D. "Controversial Treatments for Children with Attention Deficit Disorder." Online. Internet. 1995 Hallowell, Edward M. and John J. Ratley. Driven to Distraction. Simon and Schuster. New York: 1994. MacLean, Marvin E. Medications and A. D. D. The Journal of Bio/Behavioral Dynamics. September, 1995: pg. 11.
- 13393: Anabolic Steroids
- ... can range from euphoria to sexual arousal to irritability and hostility. Cognitive impairment can also set in on the user. Cognitive impairment can involve distractibility, forgetfulness, and confusion. History: The use of steroids is nothing new to the world. Since the time of the Greek Olympics athletes have been using performance enhancing drugs in order to heighten their athletic performance. In 1886 the 1st person to die due to performance enhancing drugs was a ...
- 13394: Cancer
- ... cells. If the spread of these abnormal cells is not controlled, cancer can cause death. Most cancers take the form of tumors, although not all tumors are cancers. A tumor is simply a mass of new tissue that serves no physiological purpose. It can be benign, like a wart, or malignant, like cancer. Benign tumors are made up of cells similar to the surrounding normal cells and are enclosed in a ... loss as a result of radiation treatment to the head. The majority of side effects will go away in time. B. Biological therapy (sometimes called immunotherapy, biotherapy, or biological response modified therapy) is a promising new addition to the family of cancer treatments. Biological therapies use the body's immune system, either directly or indirectly, to fight cancer or to lessen side effects that may be caused by some cancer treatments ... as soon as the treatment is finished. Chemotherapy might be taken before or after surgery. Or, it could be administered with radiation treatment. Some people also have chemotherapy without surgery or radiation. Chemotherapy is not new. It has been helping people since the early 1950s. Today it can be very effective in killing cancer cells. V. Cancer is a very serious disease, and is one which many people fear. Ambulatory ...
- 13395: Alzheimer's Disease
- ... Society of Canada.(1992).Guidelines for Care.Toronto: Alzheimer Society of Canada. Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referal Centre.(1996).Internet.http:\\www.alzheimers.org/adear.drct.txt Aronson, Miriam.(1988).Understanding Alzheimer's disease.New York: Scribner's. Brassard, Daniel.(1993).Alzheimer's Disease.Ottawa: Library of Parliament, Science and Technology Division. Brown, Phyllida.(1992, November 7).Alzheimer's May Not be Linked to Aluminum.New Scientist Supplement,p.6. Carlton University Department of Health Sciences Freenet.(1996).Internet. http:\\www.nct.carlton.ca/fp/social.services/alzheimer/disease.dir Evans, Denis, et al.(1989).Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease in ... American Medical Association, 272(15),1152. Institute for Brain Aging.(1996).Internet.http:\\www.128.200.55.17/aboutad.html Medical Research Council of Canada.(1991).Presidents Report 1989-1990. Myers, David.(1996).Exploring Psychology.New York: Worth. Pollen, Daniel.(1990).Hannah's Heirs: The Quest For the Genetic Origins of Alzheimer's Disease.London:Oxford University Press. Statement on Use of Apolipoprotein E Testing for Alzheimer's Disease.(1996). ...
- 13396: Braces: A Pain In The Ass
- ... metal squares are glued to the enamel, forcing hot, burning, glue to drip down the pink of the gums. Braces also cause everyday aches and pains in the mouth. Metal spokes, guiding teeth to a new shape, stab the inside of the mouth causing cuts, sores,and tearing each time a person's mouth opens. Rubber bands placed on top of brackets pull and stretch teeth until gums are tender and ... to the original costs can mean a huge debt to parents. Braces can be both a parents' and child's worst nightmare. One can only hope that modern medical techniques will spread to the orthodontic world where appearance, pain, and cost are a problem.
- 13397: Meditation: A In-Depth Look
- ... emotionally beneficial, but why hasn't this union of body and mind become so popular until recently? As the baby boomers get older, their unorthodox methods of youth have evolved into acceptance as mainstream culture. New developments in science have also forced psychiatrists to re-examine the effectiveness of medicines and have come to the conclusion that there is a limit to what they can do. A conscious effort must be ... without training the mind. Meditation forces its practitioner to return to the self, to confront the obstacles of life, not push them away. Sources of information for this article were taken from: "Krishna-izing the World" by Richard Vara "The Houston Chronicle, Feb. 2, 1991 "Opening Up to Happiness" by Mark Epstein, M.D., "Psychology Today", July August 1993.
- 13398: Alzheimer's Disease: "Where has Yesterday Gone"
- ... expected rather than what actually happened. Dr. Siegfried reports that "Neural decay is another enemy to the memory. Sensory receptors, such as visual, auditory and smell, provide you with sharply etched neural impressions or the world around you. But this pattern of neural firing is quickly destroyed in one of two ways; the receptor neurons adapt to the input (10- 11)." The brain can register only one item at a time ... For example, if a person is introduced to a dozen unfamiliar people at a party, mistakes will be made trying to attach the right names to proper faces. If a person were to meet one new individual a day for a dozen days, the chances will be greater of getting the file cards filed out correctly. "Misfiling also occurs, and people have trouble locating items in their memory banks. The more ...
- 13399: Anabolic Steroids
- ... can range from euphoria to sexual arousal to irritability and hostility. Cognitive impairment can also set in on the user. Cognitive impairment can involve distractibility, forgetfulness, and confusion. History: The use of steroids is nothing new to the world. Since the time of the Greek Olympics athletes have been using performance enhancing drugs in order to heighten their athletic performance. In 1886 the 1st person to die due to performance enhancing drugs was a ...
- 13400: Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
- ... instantiated as well as the results they attained from conducting the survey. Apter explains to us that anorexia nervosa is a severe eating disorder that affects mostly upper & middle class teenage girls in the western world. This disease is both physically and psychologically damaging to these girls. For these girls, thinness and self-appearance is what they revolve their lives around. Studies conclude that people in professions where physical appearance is of extreme importance are more likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe that this increase in eating disorders is due to the fashion industry. The fashionable female figure of today has become thinner and more tubular (Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986). In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a symbol of the feminine ideal. He finds that the Western role of a woman is now beginning to include success in the work force, ...
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