Breast Cancer Care PlanIn addressing the case study of a 31-year-old Ashkenazi woman concerned about her risk of developing breast cancer, it\\\'s important to integrate various aspects including genetic factors, patient-care technologies, and eviden Continue Reading...
women living in Western society will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. Germline mutations in BRCA1, a breast cancer tumor suppressor gene, are responsible for 50% of inherited breast cancers and 90% of combined inherited breast and ovarian Continue Reading...
Breast Cancer Pathophysiology Breast Cancer Advanced Pathophysiology Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women worldwide. There are three general determinants associated with the cause of the disease: heredity factors, environ Continue Reading...
Breast Cancer ETIOLOGY AND PREVENTION OF BREAST CANCER Breast cancer is the type of cancer that has been chosen for the assignment. Breast cancer is a cancer type that attacks the tissues in the breast of women. This cancer characterized by the pre Continue Reading...
Genetic Disease Diagnosis, Screening, Treatment, And Advocacy This case study involves a couple who are expecting a child. Testing has been conducted identifying the unborn child having the condition of Tay-Sachs disease. The nurse in this scenario Continue Reading...
In the tissue culture, they usually proliferate indefinitely. The normal constraints which limit the growth of the cells absent in the cancerous state and are also characterized by the division ability for number of generations which is unlimited. Continue Reading...
" He believed that discovery of such cancer was vital to early identification of cancer risk in patients with family history of cancer. The two more prominent types were breast and colon cancer. Even though medical community considers a patients with Continue Reading...
A mutation of the gene causing colorectal cancer or epithelial ovarian cancer are major risk factors for ovarian cancer, and genetic testing within the laboratory can identify most of these. However, the women who possess these inherited genes are a Continue Reading...
Complex inheritance health issues mean people inherit multiple chronic health diseases or issues that can lead to diseases, compounding the likelihood of chronic illness (Kristoffersson, Cassiman, & Schmidtke, 2010). Common medical problems that Continue Reading...
Huntington's disease (HD) was the first autonomic dominant disorder for which genetic prediction became possible" (Harper, et al., 2000, Journal of Medical Genetics, p. 567). HD is a disease that occurs due to an inherited disorder leading to the dea Continue Reading...
Cancer nurses with sufficient knowledge of the biological basis of these therapies would be better equipped to deal with the practical clinical implications and provide better symptoms management. The technical understanding of the nurses is also cr Continue Reading...
Individual Impacts Genetic Diagnosis Individual Impacts of Genetic Diagnosis The number of inherited disorders and risk factors that can be detected through genetic testing is increasing rapidly, and genetic testing may soon become a common compone Continue Reading...
Altogether, the Icelandic findings implicate epigenetic silencing of the BRCA1 gene in sporadic breast tumors. They even suggest that "the BRCA1 gene is implicated in sporadic breast tumorigenesis through epigenetic silencing and deletion of the BRC Continue Reading...
Breast Cancer How Genes Influence Breast Cancer Director of the National Cancer Institute How Genes Influence Breast Cancer Many environmental factors can affect a person's risk of breast cancer, but they are not the only issues to consider. Gene Continue Reading...
technology has revolutionized society: communication, transportation, commerce, and especially medicine. . Ironically, for centuries and still in Oriental Medicine, healthcare was and is tailored to the individual. Even the Greek Physician Hippocrat Continue Reading...
123). In this study, Martinez-Contreras and her associates report the results of recent research that has provided additional evidence concerning the function of these proteins in precursor-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing (2007). The splicing rep Continue Reading...
PhysiologyQ1Case A: 45-year-old Female with a Broken Right Ulnaa.The most logical size difference when you look at the left and right arms is muscle atrophy in the right arm, due to being immobilized in a cast for five weeks. The muscles of the right Continue Reading...
The most frequent symptom is difficulty in walking or gait ataxia (Unicorn Self-Help Committee 2000), which spreads slowly to the arms and the trunk. Foot deformities, such as clubfoot, flexion of the toes or foot inversion are other early signs. I Continue Reading...
The First Nuclear Test Of course, the first nuclear test occurred before the 1950s and was part of the United States' effort to develop an atomic weapon during World War II. This test occurred at 5:30 A.M. On July 16, 1945, at a missile range outs Continue Reading...
Cystic Fibroids Cystic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis is a disease that can be passed down from one generation to the other. It affects secretary glands that produce mucus and sweat. The disease results after the fibrosis transmembrane conductance regula Continue Reading...
Access for Women to use Free Clinic Screening Services in North Carolina U07a1: Nursing Research Course Project- Part I Marry Perry Orientation to Graduate Nursing Study All around the world, women are facing many difficulties maintaining their Continue Reading...
3). Selenide ions are being increasingly being used in photoelectrochemical cell applications (Lewis, 1995). Selenium compounds are also found in internal combustion exhaust, and have been positively associated with increased mortality rates in five Continue Reading...
Christian Biotechnology: Not a Contradiction in Terms Presented with the idea of "Bioethics" most people in the scientific community today immediately get the impression of repressive, Luddite forces wishing to stifle research and advancement in the Continue Reading...
Particularly, the risks of diverse neoplasms have been seen to be raised in Turner Syndrome is quite low quantum, however, except for gut cancer and gonaboblastoma in patients having occult Y chromosome sequences. (Cabanas; Garcia-Caballero; Barreir Continue Reading...
HIV What is HIV? The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is believed to be the virus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a deadly disease that affects nearly one million Americans every year (Silverstein, 1991). HIV is classifie Continue Reading...
