Download or read book Our Cancers written by Dan O'Brien and published by Acre Books. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and playwright Dan O'Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer. On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11--an event that caused their downtown apartment to become "suffused with the World Trade Center's carcinogenic dust"--Dan O'Brien's wife discovers a lump in her breast. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the day of his wife's final infusion, O'Brien learns of his own diagnosis. He has colon cancer and will need to undergo his own intensive treatment over the next nine months. Our Cancers is a compelling account of illness and commitment, of parenthood and partnership. This spare and powerful sequence creates an intimate mythology that seeks meaning in illness while also celebrating of the resilience of sufferers, caregivers, and survivors. As O'Brien explains in an introduction, "The consecutiveness of our personal disasters, with a daughter not yet two years old at the start of it, was shattering and nearly silencing. At hospital bedsides, in hospital beds myself, and at home through the cyclical assaults of our therapies, these poems came to me in fragments, as if my unconscious were attempting to reassemble our lives, our identities and memories . . . as if I were in some sense learning how to speak again."
Download or read book Origin of Cancers written by Shi-Ming Tu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Précis This book is a treatise about the origin of cancers. I would like to convince readers that the basic tenets of the theory of a stem-cell origin of cancers also constitute a unified theory of cancer. Stem-cell origin of normal (and cancer) cells: Vitruvian version Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second, it is opposed, in the third, it is regarded as self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer v vi Preface Every person has a unique story to tell. My story is about cancer. Cancer touches the lives of countless people. Often enough, it leaves indelible tracks. Many lives have been lost; others are forever changed. For those who confront this deadly scourge, there is a sense of urgency, if not of desperation. For those who face im- nent death, life becomes even more precious and carries a special meaning. As an oncologist, I am touched daily by cancer. I feel its inception, evolution, and aft- math. It seems as though we are fighting an incessant war against cancer at the front line in the trenches. This is my story about cancer. Some people are terrific storytellers. Others have incredible tales to tell.
Download or read book Women s Cancers written by Kerry Anne McGinn and published by Hunter House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced oncology nurses address all the issues surrounding women’s cancers. This edition offers new data on the long-term effects of cancer and its treatment, as well as updates on genetic influences, environmental factors, and analysis of complementary and alternative therapies. 70 black-and-white illustrations are included.
Download or read book The Ohio State Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Association Between Viral Infection and Human Cancers written by Ming Hu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the mechanisms of viral transformation and oncogenesis has laid the foundation for our current understanding of certain cancers. For instance, some oncogenes are activated or taken over by retroviruses, and some viral proteins impair tumor suppressor gene functions. Particular viruses from multiple virus families, as well as unusual or unclassified viruses, have been implicated in causing cancers through natural occurrence or experimentation on animals. It is believed that 15% to 20% of all human cancer cases are linked to infections by one of seven viruses: Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, human herpesvirus 8, human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1, human papillomaviruses, and Merkel cell polyomavirus.
Download or read book Medical Record written by George Frederick Shrady and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clinicopathological Factors and Staging in Gastrointestinal Cancers written by Qi Liu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nation s Investment in Cancer Research written by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Create the Research Institute of the Environmental Protection and Cancer Prevention and Carry out Cancer Prevention System Engineering written by Bin Wu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Dr. Xu Ze wrote down how to prevent cancer and try to stop cancer at the source and strive to eliminate security risks of cancer in the bud in detail. All of his wisdom comes from his hard work and years practices. Cancer prevention is the same important as the cancer treatment. Cancer prevention and treatment should be conducted at the same time and at the same level. It is very important for us to be aware of the cancer prevention. Once again the tears are full of both of my eyes , it is hard work all of day and night for all of our projects. The journey of getting all of these results is not always smooth and Science is endless. With the science and technology development, cancer is gradually understood in depth. Many research data proved that more than 90% of cancer can be prevented. In this book, Dr. Xu Ze wrote down the plans of how to prevent cancer occurrence before cancer happen and how to prevent cancer from the daily life in detail. In China, there are many of the wisdom words such as: the topmost doctor manages the country; the middle level doctor prevents the disease or treats the diseases before it happens; the lowest doctor treats the diseases. Prevention of cancer is very important. The essence is to implement and carry out the health work policy of “cancer prevention and anti-cancer” and “prevention-oriented”. Our medical predecessors and the world’s medical sages put forward “cancer prevention and anti-cancer” and “prevention-oriented”. This policy is very correct. Let work hard together to conquer cancer and do the good things for our human being.
Download or read book Malignant written by Rebecca Dresser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have cancer." Words no one wants to hear, but heard by millions every year. Millions more hear the equally shattering news that a loved one has cancer. Both are life-changing messages. For the people writing this book, cancer was not only a personal crisis, it was also an education. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience with cancer showed them how little they understood of the real world of serious illness. Despite years of teaching and writing about treatment decision-making and patient autonomy, they were unprepared for many of the problems they faced. They discovered that the rights and wrongs of cancer care were more complicated than they had anticipated. Ethics outside the hospital walls took on unexpected significance as they discovered the astonishing generosity, and the unintentional cruelty, that cancer provokes in others. Cancer was a test of personal character, too, as patients accustomed to control became dependent on others and caregivers shouldered unfamiliar and difficult responsibilities. In chapters on cancer diagnosis, treatment choices, and research participation, the authors examine medical ethics from the personal point of view. In chapters on family caregiving, cancer interactions, and cancer support groups, they consider ethics outside the medical setting. In chapters on mortality and survivorship, they reflect on cancers personal moral teachings. Cancer is an unavoidable feature of modern life. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of what it is like to have cancer, better equipped to respond to cancer in their own lives and the lives of others. The book also offers insights to doctors and nurses seeking to improve cancer treatment and to medical ethicists seeking to make their work more relevant to patients and caregivers.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panel of Tumor Markers Towards Precision Medicine in Genitourinary Cancers written by Daniela Terracciano and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Topics in Anti Cancer Research Volume 8 written by Atta-ur-Rahman and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics in Anti-Cancer Research covers new developments in the field of cancer. Novel drugs as anticancer agents include natural and synthetic phenazines and other anti-cancer compounds. It also encompasses the role of estrogen as endocrine disruptors and strategies targeting cancer stem cells for the treatment of different types of cancers, including myeloma and renal cell cancer. The diversity of researches and topics published in this eBook Series will be valuable to cancer researchers, clinicians, and cancer professionals aiming to develop novel anti-cancer targets for the treatment of various cancers. The topics covered in the eighth volume of this series are as follows: -Novel Drugs for Multiple Myeloma -Synthetic Estrogens are Endocrine Disruptors via Inhibition of AF1 Domain of ERs -Recent Progress of Phenazines as Anticancer Agents -Cancer Stem Cell Targeting for Anticancer Therapy: Strategies and Challenges
Download or read book Southern Medicine and Surgery written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Biomarkers Functional Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potentials in Gastrointestinal Cancers written by Zequn Li and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant changes in diet, environment, and population increase gastrointestinal cancer morbidity. A growing number of novel biomarkers and underlying mechanisms are being elucidated, some of which may even conflict with assumptions of past decades. Therefore, collecting recent findings on novel diagnostic/prognostic factors, biomarkers, and/or risk factors in gastrointestinal cancers is a prerequisite for a better understanding of the disease. Despite remarkable progressions in surgical treatments and chemotherapies, the prognosis of gastrointestinal cancer is far from satisfactory due to the high occurrence of drug resistance. Based on the identification of novel biomarkers as well as their underlying mechanisms, targeted drug development will provide significant complementary therapeutic effects to conventional chemoradiotherapies. High-throughput methods such as next-generation sequencing on RNA level and mass spectrometry on protein/lipid/metabolite level serve as efficient strategies for biomarker identification and drug development. This Research Topic aims at presenting recent advances on gastrointestinal cancer biomarkers and their underlying functional mechanisms, providing a better understanding of carcinogenesis, tumor progression, tumor relapse, as well as drug resistance. This will subsequently contribute to the development of novel therapeutic interventions targeting gastrointestinal cancers, thus improving patients' outcomes.
