Lung cancer

Cancer. A six letter word powerful enough to crumble the world around you. The word cancer originated from Greek physician Hippocrates, (460-370 BCE) who used the term carcinos and carcinoma, to describe the finger-like spreading projections of an ulcer forming tumor. Therefore it is perceivable that cancer is not a new disease, however there is a large inflation among people that Cancer has plagued recently. Cancer is said reported to afflict 1.7 million Americans each year while killing…

On Nov 17th 2016, my colleague Fen underwent the resection of a lung nodule. It turned out to be adenocarcinoma in situ, a very early stage of lung cancer with favorable prognosis. I've never felt more relieved and fulfilled because she was the 32nd patient we saved in the CT lung cancer screening program. It was a profound moment on my way to pursue my goal--to help people fight with cancer. I have acquired perseverance, leadership and aspiration on this long way, which ensured me the…

pregnant when her doctors told her that she would die. She felt so bad on her back. She knew it was lung cancer. The doctors wanted to treat her, and it would get the baby out. Their baby born on Tuesday, at 8; 55 p.m. the next day, Sara took blood tests and body scans. Doctors said she had a non-small cell lung cancer in her left lung. There was a new drug called Tarceva, which targets that cancer. Marcoux said, “Some of these responses can be long-team. They know the median survival is about a…

2.4 Facilitator in early lung cancer screening at FQHCs. The Task Force for Community Preventative Services performed a systematic review on client-directed intervention and suggested that small media could improve cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening rates (Baron et al., 2008). The study by Sabatino et al., (2012) evaluated the effect of small media on increasing cancer screening rate at FQHCs. The study has recommended that providing education through small media is effective in…

everything looks different. I miss home and I want to return, I miss the warm climate, the palm trees and mainly my family. I went back to thinking why I was here and also if I will ever be the same. Then, I remembered 5 months ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer. How did this happen? I’ve always a strong and vigorous girl. I was 11 years old and I felt like this should not be happening to me. After a while searching around the hospital for my mom, I realized that she had left to my aunt’s…

Cancer is a condition where abnormal cells grow and divide or normal cells divide at an accelerated pace more times than they should. Cancer.gov describes cancer as follows “Cancer is the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” The human body is a marvelous machine. It is designed from top to bottom to operate at optimum efficiency and this requires the periodic and…

Critical Commentary 3 Cancer is the second leading cause of death (CDC, 2016), the urge of a better treatment pushed many Researchers to search for a better treatment. A new lung cancer drug has been found, better then chemotherapy and makes patient live longer. In this narrative article, many characters were part of it: The Writer of the article, Researchers, Patients, and the FDA. The setting was going back and forth between characters. There were many reasons for choosing this artifact,…

today is cancer. Cancer is one of the top leading causes of death in the United States. But have you ever asked yourself what exactly is cancer. Cancer is a disease when cells begin to grow out of control and begin to spread abnormally throughout the body. Due to the growing of these abnormal cells it can result to changing how your body should work. There are many types of cancer there is not just one. Such as lung cancer it’s a very serious type of cancer a human can get. Lung cancer is one of…

was diagnosed with stage III lung cancer. The two weeks between his biopsy and diagnosis were agonizingly long, not only did I not know what was keeping my dad from being able to talk, but I had no control over the situation. As soon as my mom answered the phone I could tell that it was bad news, the brief research that I recently completed determined how bad it was. While my sister and I continued to not move and blankly stare at the wall, my mom called the cancer center at Paoli hospital to…

evaluation in the study of CD45RO+ memory Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This study can have a great impact on today 's problem because lung cancer is considered to be one of the most lethal malignancy around the world. To find the most reliable guidelines for treatments, the TNM classification is the best determinant because it uses a combined data on tumor burden, cancer cells in regional lymph nodes and metastases giving the abbreviation of TNM.…