...INTRODUCTION Ovarian cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the ovaries. Women have two ovaries, one on each side of the uterus. The ovaries, each about the size of an almond, produce eggs as well as the hormones estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Ovarian cancer often goes undetected until it has spread within the pelvis and abdomen. At this late stage, ovarian cancer is difficult to treat and is often fatal. Ovarian cancer treatments are available. Researchers are studying ways to improve ovarian cancer treatment and looking into ways to detect ovarian cancer at an earlier stage. SYMPTOMS Symptoms of ovarian cancer are not specific to the disease, and they often mimic those of many other more-common conditions, including digestive and bladder problems. When ovarian cancer symptoms are present, they tend to be persistent and worsen with time. Signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer may include: • Abdominal pressure, fullness, swelling or bloating • Pelvic discomfort or pain • Persistent indigestion, gas or nausea • Changes in bowel habits, such as constipation • Changes in bladder habits, including a frequent need to urinate • Loss of appetite or quickly feeling full • Increased abdominal girth or clothes fitting tighter around your waist • A persistent lack of energy • Low back pain CAUSES It is not clear what causes ovarian cancer. In general, cancer begins when healthy cells acquire a genetic mutation that turns normal cells into abnormal cells. Healthy...
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...Breast Cancer If a woman were to be diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, it was most likely that she wouldn’t survive. There wasn’t much knowledge of the subject then leaving doctors clueless in how to treat the matter. With all of the technology of today, the medical world has made so much progress in treating breast cancer and looking for a cure. Breast cancer is a potentially fatal disease that affects many lives. It can impact the lives of not only the women who have contracted the disease, but also their friends and families. There are much technological advancement made every day in the fight to find a cure however, by educating women on the subject, utilizing tools for early detection, and improving treatments, the survival rate has increased and many cases have even been prevented from happening. Cancer is not just one disease but rather a group of diseases. All forms of cancer causes cells in the body to change and grow out of control. Most types of cancer cells form a lump or mass called a tumor. Cells from the tumor can break away and travel to other parts of the body where they can continue to grow, (American Cancer Society). When a woman gets breast cancer, it is a malignant tumor that has developed in the breast tissue. The cancer cells have the ability to spread to the underarm lymph nodes from which they are more likely to spread to other organs in the body. Benign tumors (non-cancerous), do not have the ability to spread and are not life...
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...Down syndrome Jeffrey was 14 months when I met him. He was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect and had an open heart surgery when he was 6 months old. Jeffrey often got ear infections and had recently had a set of pressure equalizing (pe) ear tubes placed. Jeffrey was not walking and was not yet crawling. Children with Down syndrome do learn to crawl and walk and talk; it takes longer. Recent research and clinical experience suggests that, with regard to talking, these children benefit from early oral stimulation, oral motor awareness and multiple experiences with oral sensory stimulation. As soon as I met Jeffery, we began working on ` mouth wakeup` activities , stimulating his teeth, lips, gums , hard and soft palate, inside cheeks, and outside jaw muscles with a variety of toys and tools, including vibrators. We taught his parents to do the same at home. Another part of getting ready to talk is stimulating receptive language (language comprehension). In speech therapy visits we begin using short descriptive sentences to describe toys Jeffrey picked up (he was in a high chair initially). We dropped direct questions during these periods of indirect language stimulation and encouraged the parents to do the same. After two to three weeks, Jeffrey’s mother became adept at these techniques and began describing his activities as he did them so that he could hear them and associate the object he had with the words he heard. Her continuing work in this area made a very...
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...Cancer: Disability Paper Cancer. This single word consisting of six letters can change someone’s life in a heartbeat. Imagine yourself or a loved one sitting in a doctor’s office, awaiting the results to see if cancer is the diagnosis. You’re sitting in silence holding each other’s hand, watching the clock tick slowly before hearing a faint knock on the door. As the doctor walks in, his face says it all and he does not need to say a single word. It’s hard to listen to what he is saying, because all you can think about is, “my life is over,” “this can’t be happening to me,” and “I’m dying”. Those were some of the exact same thoughts my dad was thinking when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer about thirteen years ago. Fortunately for himself and our family, he is now cancer free. At that time of the diagnosis, I was young and did not understand the depth of cancer, and that’s why I decided to write this paper. Cancer doesn’t care about your age, race, or religion, but when it strikes someone you know, it hits home. In the book, “ A World Without Cancer,” Dr. Margaret Cuomo (2012) describes cancer as, “Malignant tumors often look crablike, their irregular extensions resembling crustacean claws” (p.23). What exactly is cancer? There are over 100 different types of cancers such as: breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, and kidney cancer, to just name a few. According to the American Cancer Society (2014),” although there are many kinds of cancer, all cancers start because...
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...for being seen among many, is because she has been diagnosed with stage 3 Lymphoma cancer. April is a sophomore in college and is studying architecture. She grew up with both parents; her father was a doctor and her mother stayed at home with April and her brother Daniel. Daniel was diagnosed with Down Syndrome as a young child. This seems to cause major problems for April and her family throughout her life, as seen throughout her sessions. Another significant person in her life whom she talks about quite often during her therapy is her ex boyfriend Kyle. She has recently broken up with him prior to coming to therapy. The problems April is having are that she has...
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...deforeastaation over the summer. She was admitted to the ward by her by her psyciatrist and she came in alone. Her date of admission was on october 9th 2015. Year 2005 she was treated in Kenezy hospital due to some family problems. In just that year she lost six of her close family members. In 2003 she was experiencing panic attacks and 2005 she was diagnosed with major depressive dissorder. Autoanamnesis Her current complaint were due to the bugs in her home. By the end of june a bird nest was found and later removed from a chimney in her home. She cleaned everything up but again next day they appeared again on her butter and toast. She was afraid of them due to health concerns. The patient told us that the bugs but her back ones and it got infected. After that she went to the family physician and got some steroid cream. Her symptoms appeared due to sleeping disturbances, she had trouble falling asleep at night time, she took sleeping medication to help her fall asleep such as mitrazapin which has a dual action of antidepression. She was took it every evening and it would last for 34 hours. Because of the feae of bugs she would check her clothes every morning and look for blood that mau be caused by the bugs. The patient had sleeping disturbances for twelve years. She wakes up in the middle of the night with panic...
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...Alexis Martin Hour 3 English 2 Essay 1 A relative that I will never forget… Jodi Marie Ross was an amazing woman! She was known as the first female contractor in the state of Missouri! My lovely grandmother had many jobs before becoming a female carpenter. She also worked as a florist for about six years but soon after that she started her own company ,whom is now run by her youngest daughter Jodi Dale, Ross Management! Jodi always helped a lot of people that had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. Many of the people that worked for my Grandmother where people that had been standing on streets corners either soliciting or begging for money. The people who she helped the most were people that wouldn’t so much beg for money but they would ask for food. I remember when I was six, almost seven years old, my grandmother and I were heading home from her work on a Friday evening. We were leaving 52nd and Wabash and we stopped at the light right before Churches Chicken which had graffiti all over it and busted out windows. There was a guy standing on the corner who had the cutest little boy with him. He looked to be about three or four years old. The guy was holding up a sign saying “Food Please!!!! God forgive me for my sin!!” When my grandmother saw this she began to cry! She pulled her car over into the Churches Chicken parking lot. She told me to stay in the car then she opened her door and got out and begun walking over to the man. I couldn’t quite...
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...In 2008, my mother and I immigrated to the United States to be with my father. The move to the US affected all of the aspects of who we are today. The move became one of the turning points of our lives. My parents became a married couple for the first time, which did not turn out easy for everyone, because they are two different people with two diverse cultures, values, and, of course, parenting styles. Furthermore, I finally have a typical family, both of my parents under the same roof. However, as a teenager, I did not know how to live with them because I have little to no attachment to them. We all did not know each other, and we are all independent and stubborn individuals placed under one roof and tried to become a typical family. Our...
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...patients’ needs. In order to develop this scenario, I need to know the barriers of the patients such as language, religious, cultural beliefs and their cognitive limitations. Evaluating the outcome of my presentation implies the audience’s ability to meet learning objectives. I will use return demonstrations, questions, and I will provide writing tests as well. If I didn’t reach my goals, I will proceed to modify my teaching plan. 2- A male patient has been newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. As you are teaching him, you suspect that he is unable to read and comprehend the information in the brochures you have given him. Describe the interventions you would use in developing teaching plan for this patient. The biggest barrier here it is that the patient is illiterate. In this case, my goal will be to achieve patient’s understanding of diabetes 2 through a detail presentation. In order to do this, I will use simple words that the patient can understand like I will say “check sugar before meals” instead of “monitor your blood sugar level three times a day before each meal”. I will use visualization technique such as pictures, movies, and some other illustrations to ensure total understanding of this illness. I will...
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...Table of Figures Table 1. Cancer-related deaths from 1990-1998 7 Figure 1. Rate* of prostate cancer deaths, 1990-1998 8 Figure 2. Rate* of female breast cancer deaths, 1990-1998. 9 The most consistent finding, over decades of research, is the strong association between tobacco use and cancers of many sites. Hundreds of epidemiologic studies have confirmed this association. Further support comes from the fact that lung cancer death rates in the United States have mirrored smoking patterns, with increases in smoking followed by dramatic increases in lung cancer death rates and, more recently, decreases in smoking followed by decreases in lung cancer death rates in men. Additional examples of modifiable cancer risk factors include alcohol consumption (associated with increased risk of oral, esophageal, breast, and other cancers), physical inactivity (associated with increased risk of colon, breast, and possibly other cancers), and obesity (associated with colon, breast, endometrial, and possibly other cancers). Observational evidence shows associations between amount of alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, and obesity and increased incidence of certain cancers. More research is needed to determine whether these associations are causal and thus whether avoiding these behaviors would actually reduce cancer incidence. Other lifestyle and environmental factors known to affect cancer risk (either beneficially or detrimentally) include certain sexual and reproductive...
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...Diagnosed With Cancer? Here Are 11 Effective, Natural Strategies To Kill Your Cancer The information you need to beat cancer is here - available to you for free. You won't have to download a report or buy any book. In fact, some readers have said that this report is better than the ebooks, and they had bought every one. Here you will find information your doctor can't tell you or doesn't know - including information on one product where 51 out of 65 stage 4 cancer patients became cancer free while using it. Other readers say that this report gave them the most understandable information they found about cancer. You'll learn about the underlying causes of cancer, and what to do to counteract those causes. Effective actions to take to defeat cancer. This information applies to all types of cancer. Lung, prostate, breast, colon, ovarian, cervical, liver, pancreatic, bone, bladder, stomach, testicular, thyroid, kidney, throat, brain, mouth, uterine, esophageal, rectal and more. The fundamental causes of these cancers are the same, so the same strategies work for all of them. Thousands before you have used these strategies to beat their cancer and now live happy normal lives. They are available here at no cost to you. "In 2003 my husband was told he had a pancost tumor on his upper left lung. He began 6 weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. On April 1st, 2004 he went thru a 10 hour surgery to remove the upper left lobe, parts of his ribs and the tips of the T3, T4...
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...family. He became his mother's favorite which negatively impacted him having friends, so he grew up isolated as an adolescent. When his mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he willingly oversaw her care as she declined, fascinated by the positive effect that the administration of morphine had on her suffering, until she died to the disease on June 21,1963. Devastated by her death, he was determined to go to medical school, and he was admitted to Leeds University medical school for training two years later. Although he failed the...
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...Background Leigh, nicknamed Lee, is the oldest of the three cousins. She is an African American, woman, identifies as a lesbian, and is approximately 29 years of age. The home town in Rural Mississippi that she grew up in, remains her residence. Her feature included dark brown skin color and she has short, black, thinker hair that she either ties up or places behind her ears. She is approximately 5’2” and is over weight for her height. The characteristics of her moment are often slower and careful when she is calm and brisk when she is angry. She trudges briskly when she walks, and she is animated in her movements when she talks. In her presentation she dresses more masculine and carries herself in her shoulders, which is a more masculine feature. High school was the highest level of education that she received, and she has not demonstrated any ambition to move further at this stage in her life. This woman has a job, but she might have had some trouble holding down a stable job due to her stress level that she presents with. She is currently single and her most notable success was the relationship with her ex-girlfriend, Paula. Even though that relationship has been terminated for many...
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...REVIEW XIAN WEN JIN, MD, PhD Department of General Internal Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic JACQUELYN SLOMKA, PhD, RN Department of Bioethics, The Cleveland Clinic CAROL E. BLIXEN, PhD, RN Department of General Internal Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Cultural and clinical issues in the care of Asian patients s A B S T R AC T Special problems of Asian patients have considerable impact on diagnosis and treatment, and the number of persons of Asian ancestry seen in primary care in the United States is increasing. Knowledge of how to provide optimal care despite language barriers, low socioeconomic status, different health beliefs and practices, and medical issues unique to this heterogeneous group is crucial to competent health care. with Asian patients include language barriers, low socioeconomic status, traditional health beliefs and practices, and epidemiologic issues. This article presents three case studies that illustrate how these problems can affect the health care of Asian patients, and describes ways to deal with them constructively. We also discuss what diseases are more common and what conditions have unique clinical aspects in this population. Asians: The fastest-growing minority Asians and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing ethnic minorities in the United States, and are predicted to number more than 17 million by 2010.1 This heterogeneous population is from many cultures and speaks many languages—the 1990 US Census identified 25 distinct Asian...
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...Unit F912: Promoting Good Health Health & Social Care AS Contents Page A01 – Pages 3 - 13 A02 - A03 – A04 – Promoting good health This unit explores what is good health, the models, the range of lifestyle choices and societal factors which influence health and well-being. Health and well-being are not only affected by an individual’s lifestyle choices (e.g. smoking, eating unhealthy ‘fatty food), but also by societal and environmental issues (e.g. living near a motorway – high pollution levels) Government policies and legislation have an imperative part to play in the promotion of good health, as the introduction on screening programmes (e.g. cervical smear test, antenatal screening etc.); which prevent ill health, has been an incredible and useful tool. Health promoters also have a significant role to play in helping individual’s using services to make the right decision about their health. As their choice of presentation approach can make or damage a health promotion campaign. Further, health promoters need to take into account the presentation methods, and to ensure that they have been chosen well to confirm that the message is successfully put over to the individual to whom it is directed. What is ‘health’? The Worlds Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. However, others may simply define health as the absence of illness...
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