Informative Speech On Colon Cancer

According to the National Cancer Institute, about 40% of people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life, and there were approximately 13,776,251 people living with cancer in 2012. Cancer is a common disease with many types and forms. The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot shows the story of a woman with cervical cancer, and how her illness affected herself and her family. Although cancer affects a patient physically, it also has effects on the patient mentally and financially, as well as it challenges patients to change their lifestyles for the better.

With attention to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, Crohn’s disease is one of the many common cases. Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disorder that both men and woman are equally susceptible too. This disease is often confused with other gastrointestinal disorders with similar symptoms. With this disease being a part of the GI tract, there are many signs that can lead up to Crohn’s. An individual with Crohn’s disease could have been obtained through genetics or the environment, which could lead to many other complications that can affect the entire digestive tract.

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) infection is a condition that causes inflammation of the large intestine (colon). This condition can result in damage to the lining of your colon and may lead to colitis. This condition can be passed from person to person (contagious).

In order for me to help a patient who has never had a mammogram perform I will have to get familiar with the way a mammogram is perform, otherwise I might get the patient more concerned and misinformed about the procedure. The first thing I will do is explain that a mammogram is an x-ray picture taken of your breast to detect any tumors that might be benign or malign that can be cancerous. This procedure is perform on women who are over the age of 50 and up or women who have any cancer family history. Some physicians might recommend a mammogram to women of any age who might be experiencing any symptoms that might lead to cancer. The procedure is perform on a special x-ray machine by a train technician. You stand in front of this

Almost every individual has had an experience where they or someone they know have battled a disease. No matter what the disease is, the patient typically is associated with negativity; however, in this memoir by Suleiki Jaouad, the author places a different view on cancer. Suleiki Jaouad developed (AML) acute myeloid leukemia, due to a bone marrow disorder, at the age of twenty two. Throughout her story, Jaouad discusses the impacts of developing cancer and how she coped with her disease. Her most precious asset was her long, wavy hair, and she knew once she began her chemotherapy treatments that she would not be able to keep her long hair. She describes how she asked her doctor two questions after she was diagnosed, and one of those being whether or not she was going to be able to keep her hair. She then begins to inform the reader how she felt losing her hair and what the impact was in her life. She explains how every time she went in public, which was not often, she received stares because people associate baldness with cancer. That’s how society is. She wants to be more than an individual with cancer, this is when she

This is the case of Jenny Coste, 10 years old and was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She felt a sudden pain in her legs, was feeling sick and has shortness of breath. She undergoes intensive chemotherapy and have been in and out of the hospital for 18 months. She had a remission for a fleeting period, but unfortunately a relapse occurred. Her health being swiftly dropped despite assertive effort of treatment until her family decided to put her in palliative care.

problem, if you cut the tumor it will grow again. Cancer is the result of a body that is nutrient deficient and is overloaded with toxins and a suppressed or overloaded immune system. If you look back at the last hundred years you will notice that the numbers of death caused by cancer has tripled. The difference between now and our ancestors is the food and exercise. They always ate fresh food and exercised because they were always working and moving around. We are overfed but we are malnourished. Our body needs minerals and enzymes to heal. Obesity is the second leading cause of cancer (christbeatcancer.com).

This article was about Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. This is relevant to our course because in order to treat diseases like this we need to know how the body works in order to create treatment plans such as the ones in this article. I know of a few different people who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease. It really is not as uncommon as I thought. Reading this article kept me interested since I know people who have it. This made it easier to learn about because I would think about my family members and how they each have to deal with this disease. I wanted to learn more information so I could better understand what is going on with my family members who have Crohn’s disease. Since I was the only student who participated in the group discussion, I would have liked it better if I could have heard other students’ tell their personal relationship with someone who has inflammatory bowel disease. Also, I learn better if a student explains a complicated concept to me rather than a textbook or teacher. Sometimes if a classmate says something, then that helps me to

Terry Fox has been Canada’s hero for many generations, and you could still say that he is to this day. What better way to learn about him then reading Terry Fox: His Story, by Leslie Scrivener. In my opinion, this book is one of the greatest autobiographies that I have ever read, it might even be one of the best books I have ever read, in all honesty. From the way this book is written to how each idea is executed in this book, this book brought back many memories that I had of Terry Fox and it brought some new one’s as well.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in men and the second in women worldwide,accounting for almost 10 % of all cases.{1,2} the USA and Europe have high rates compared to Africa and Asia.{3,4} Only in the United States, nearly 135,000 new cases diagnosed annually that about 50,000 people will die of the disease .{5, American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2015. Atlanta:American Cancer Society.2015 }In Iran CRC is the third most common cancer in women and the Fifth in men.{6} The biggest problem is the high ability of CRC to form secondary tumours, particularly in the lung and liver. Other complication connected to CRC is the high heterogeneity of the genetic and epigenetic changes among the individual

I believe, we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories. On one hand you can sugar coat it, the way they do it in movies and in romance novels. Beautiful people learn beautiful lessons. Nothing is too messed up that

In todays society many people still do not know the whole gist of Breast Cancer. There are many misconceptions about Breast Cancer, many being that men cannot get Breast Cancer or that there is only one type of Breast Cancer. Medically and scientifically proven those are absolutely incorrect and in actuality the lifetime risk of a man getting Breast Cancer is about 1 in 1000. In addition to this it has been found that over 100 types of cancer exist. Likewise, there is multiple types of Breast Cancer, Triple Negative being the most aggressive.

An 18 year old Caucasian male presents to your clinic with complaints of abdominal pain and bloody stools. The patient states that his bowel movements have increased in the last few months and that he was experiencing diarrhea.. He decided to come in when the pain and bloody diarrhea started. When asking about the abdominal pain, the patient describes the pain as severe cramping. The patient states that he has had a few accidents because he is unable to make it to the bathroom in time. He states that he feels an urgency to have bowel movements and that when he goes it is diarrhea. When asking about family history he states that his grandfather had “some stomach issues” and was frequently in the hospital getting medication. Based on this information what is your diagnosis? Is there a genetic link to this diagnosis? What tests should be run? What medications or treatments would you recommend?

The caring role for persons diagnosed with cancer can pose significant challenges for family carers (Lawn et al 2013). Feelings of being overwhelmed with the caring role burden in family carers is reported and significant (Dunne & Rogers 2013). Carers are likely to report mood, anxiety and depressive disorders (Bailey & Grenyer’s 2013). Studies indicate that anxiety and depression not only affect cancer patients but also have a major negative impact on their family carers (Grunfeld et al. 2004). Stressful circumstances are likely to occur among family carers for cancer patients and cause anxiety in form of generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress disorder (American Cancer Society 2010). Meanwhile, family carer

In the 1800’s, a cancer diagnosis was viewed as the equivalent of death (Holland, 2002). In this day and age, there was no known cause or cure, and it was considered inhumane to reveal the diagnosis to the patient. In a constantly changing and advancing society, this ideology was transformed as the result of an accumulation of technological advances, education, and research initiative. This led to the acceptance of the notion of cancer worldwide. As cancer continued to become more prevalent, health care providers and researchers were forced to further investigate the biology, development, and treatment of cancer. The interaction of cancer outside the realm of molecular and cellular biology became apparent in the mid 1900’s and has since found importance in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, and psychosocial oncology (Holland, 2002).