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    Vaccines: A Case Study

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    On August 6, 2014, three year old Maggie Jacks was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, or blood cancer. Because Maggie had undergone chemotherapy, her immune system’s “hard drive” was completely wiped out, leaving her with a very venerable, and weak body. Because of her weakened immune system, she cannot be vaccinated. This became a huge problem for the Jacks family when they got a call one Sunday from the hospital telling them their child was exposed to measles by another child (Why…

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    Acute Myeloid Cancer. In Encyclopedia of Cancer. (pp. 29-32). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (seer.cancer.gov) Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (https://www.lls.org) Adamia S., Bar-Natan M., et al. NOTCH2 and FLT3 gene mis-splicings are common events in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML): new potential targets in AML. Blood 123(18), 2816-25(2014). PMID 24574459 When observing splicing of RNA in cells of AML patients, scientists observed…

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    Pros Of Nanotechnology

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    After a number of different tests doctors had thought of it as a stomach virus but after blood had been drawn , the tests had shown , that she was diagnosed with a severe acute lymphoblastic leukemia , a type of blood cancer that has around a twenty-five percent chance for survival for her severe case , so with the risk of her dying in a couple months , even with all the treatments like chemotherapy not helping ,her parents took the risk to…

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    Radiotherapy Essay

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    • Treatment There are a wide variety of therapeutics options for lymphomas and the election of them is based on the type of lymphoma, the progression of the disease, characteristics of each patient… However, the 3 main therapeutic options are chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. In this part, these and other methods will be analysed. Surgery Surgery has not any relevant role in the treatment of lymphomas13, it just have a role on the diagnosis (obtaining of biopsy material) and…

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    Nilotinib Case Studies

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    Introduction Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia is a type of cancer that occurs when bone marrow produces too many leucocytes (white blood cells) . This over production of leucocytes occurs when they grow uncontrollably by overcoming the cell regulation cycle. Cells not undergoing the regulation cycle continue to divide without dying ,causing an overcrowding of cells, hence, forming a tumour in bone marrow. The tumour can become an even more serious issue when the cancer cells from a tumour spreads to…

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    Did you know that cervical cells go through 250 stages as they develop from healthy to cancerous cells, or that there are more than 200,000 cases of Parkinson’s disease per year? Elizabeth Stern discovered how many stages cells go through and James Parkinson is the man who discovered ‘shaking palsy’, which is now known as Parkinson’s disease. Elizabeth Stern and James Parkinson are similar in ways, but also very different form one another. Stern made a very huge impact of cancer research and…

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    Adoptive T Cell Therapy

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    Abstract Adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) is the most efficiently used treatment for patients with metastatic melanoma. It is a therapy where a patient’s T cells are collected and proliferated to a very huge number in the laboratory to be reinserted again into his body to be able to recognize and kill these tumor cells. In recently conducted clinical trials, the use of increasing concentration of lymphodepletion before infusion of autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) displayed response…

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    As cancer incidence rates rise internationally, a larger percent of patients require research through clinical trials and treatments to cure their cancer. The National Cancer Institute, the primary federal agency for cancer research in the United States, defines cancer as “a collection of related diseases… [in which] some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues” (“What Is Cancer?”). Cancer is the leading cause of death for children ages 0 to 19 in…

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    Fault In Our Stars Themes

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    The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green, is a fascinating book that chronicles the hardships of two teenagers battling cancer and how they find meaning in their lives despite their disease. The book is about Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. Both are fighting cancer and together they learn to cope with their circumstances and support each other through difficult times. In the end, Augustus dies from osteosarcoma, but not without leaving a very positive impact on the people who knew him.…

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    Capecitabine, an oral 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) analogue, is a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent (antimetabolite) of the pyrimidine analogue family. It is a basic cytostatic agent used in therapy of solid gastrointestinal cancers (as adjuvant therapy as well as in treatment of metastatic disease); besides, it is also widely used in therapy of metastatic breast cancer. Myocardial infarction is a rare adverse effect related to capecitabine therapy. We present case report of a female patient with no…

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