Breast cancer forms the second largest cause of deaths from cancer in American women. In the year 2015, roughly 232,000 women, mostly between 55 and 64 years of age, showed positive cancer diagnoses, with 40,000 succumbing to the disease. The median breast cancer-linked mortality age is 68 years. The US PSTF (Preventive Services Task Force) advises all females aged between 50 and 74 years to undergo screening mammography once every two years. Women may individually even decide to commence screening mammography before turning fifty. Those who set greater store by… Continue Reading...
Pharmacotherapy for Hematologic Disorders
The hematologic disorder selected in this case cancer –specifically, breast cancer. It is important to note, from the onset, that breast cancer has been identified as one of the leading causes of death amongst women across the world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC (2018), without taking into consideration some skin cancer types, breast cancer is not only “the most common cancer in women” in the United States, but also “the second most common cause of death from cancer among white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and the American Indian/Alaska Native women.” The first position, as… Continue Reading...
Recently it was brought to my attention that the rate of breast cancer may be higher in countries that are wealthy and developing for the main reason that exposure to artificial light at night over time is disrupting circadian rhythms, altering the brain's production of melatonin, which is thereby linked to the growth of breast cancer tumors. Finding this study fascinating, I started to research more about the disease prevalence of different cancers around the world with cultural and geographic differences. In the future I hope to contribute to a worldwide project utilizing epidemiological data to draw maps that can provide… Continue Reading...
by no means the only contributing factors to whether a women gets breast cancer, but there are lifestyle factors that contribute. The underlying logic of the Kapp study is that some lifestyle factors are preventable. Where there is higher awareness of lifestyle factors that a person can control, they are more likely to do so, and this can explain why some conditions occur more in certain segments of the population. The United States has relatively poor health outcomes for a developed nation, and while there are any number of reasons for this, lifestyle habits among the nation's poor and undereducated are definitely… Continue Reading...
