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The screening recommendations for cancer of the breast
... http://thomsonlifestylecentre.com/breast -cancer- screening-package http://thomsonlifestylecentre.com/breast -cancer- screening-package The American Cancer Society recently launched new cancer of the breast screening ... breast screening recommendations. The brand new recommendations stand to find the best ideas in cancer of the breast tests rooted in the newest understanding. The recommendations are targeted ... should request their healthcare provider concerning the benefits and drawbacks of adding a yearly MRI. There's no proof that MRI is an efficient screening tool for ladies of average risk....
Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 08:52
DERMATOLOGY: CLINICAL & BASIC SCIENCE SERIES BIOENGINEERING OF THE SKIN potx
... in the classification of skin lesions. However, the image contains only the information from the skin surface, and strong reflections of light partly disturb the visibility of the lesion. In the ... Contents Erythema is mainly due to accumulation of blood in the dermal vascular plexus. Pigmentation of the skin influences the visibility of erythema, the most impressive example being black skin, ... Grana The ‘‘A’’ of the ABCD Rule: Asymmetry Assessment . . . . 307 The ‘‘B’’ of the ABCD Rule: Border Evaluation . . . . 308 The ‘‘C’’ of the ABCD Rule: Colors . . . . 309 The ‘‘D’’ of the ABCD Rule:...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:21
BIOENGINEERING OF THE SKIN Skin Biomechanics potx
... consists of collagen. The most abundant collagen types in skin are types I and III; the former accounts for 80% of the total collagen content of skin and the latter for approximately 15%.1 The other collagen ... extension is achieved, the crosshead is immediately returned to the starting position with the same velocity. From the upward curve the stress and the modulus of elasticity at the end of the loading phase at the ... Malenal 28 Bioengineering of the Skin: Skin Biomechanics animal. In this way, the influence of the first extension on the results of the second extension should be eliminated. In spite of similar conditions,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
What You Need To Know About - Cancer of the Pancreas docx
... attempt to find out the following: • The size of the tumor in the pancreas • Whether the tumor has invaded nearby tissues • Whether the cancer has spread, and if so, to what parts of the body 12 U.S. ... withdraws the probe from the intestine toward the stomach, the computer creates a picture of the pancreas from the echoes. The picture can show a tumor in the pancreas. It can also show how deeply the ... You. Targeted Therapy People with cancer of the pancreas who can’t have surgery may receive a type of drug called targeted therapy along with chemotherapy. Targeted therapy slows the growth of pancreatic cancer. ...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
Cancer of the Brain and Other Central Nervous System doc
... Schwartz Chapter 25 Cancer of the Brain and Other Central Nervous System Chapter 25 Cancer of the Brain and Nervous System National Cancer Institute 216 SEER Survival Monograph Chapter 25 Cancer of the Brain ... other CNS cancer. These relative survival estimates show the distinct difference between the two types of cancer even though they both affect the central nervous system; therefore, brain cancer ... analyses of the 1,105 patients, only white and black patients (91%) are used, because the other category is made up of a mix of racial groups. As with the brain cancer group, the proportion of whites...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20
Neuroimmunology of the Skin Basic Science to Clinical Practice ppt
... overview is given on the neuroreceptors and media- tors of C-fibers involved in the sensory system of the skin and their communication with other skin cells. Table 2.1 The two major epidermal ... import of these receptors lies in their ability to couple the pat- tern recognition of the innate immune system with the specificity and robustness of adaptive immunity. The activation of TLRs ... Chapter 4 Immune Circuits of the Skin 39 stimulatory to the respiratory burst necessary for the production of caustic radicals and augments the kill- ing ability of these neutrophils [24]. Also...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Cancer of the Uterine Endometrium – Advances and Controversies Edited by J. Salvador Saldivar ppt
... Biology of Endometrial Carcinoma 11 of the PTEN gene and thus may represent the earliest step of the multistep progression of endometrial carcinogenesis. It seems that the detection of the altered ... that the expression of MMP-26 specifically fluctuates during the menstrual cycle. The detection of high levels in the middle of the cycle and in hyperplastic endometrium, and, on the other ... 50% of cases while the loss of heterozygosity of chromosome 10q23 occurs in about 40%. Considering that up to 55% of precancerous lesions of endometrial carcinoma show some alteration of the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20
What You Need To Know About - Cancer of the Esophagus ppt
... their feelings. See the Sources of Support section on page 29. The National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, is the Federal Government’s ... submucosa. (The picture on page 3 shows the submucosa and other layers.) • Stage II is one of the following: The cancer has grown through the inner layer to the submucosa, and cancer cells ... to lymph nodes. —Or, the cancer has invaded the muscle layer. Cancer cells may be found in lymph nodes. —Or, the cancer has grown through the outer layer of the esophagus. Radiation therapy (RAY-dee-AY-shun...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
Cancer of the Female Breast pdf
... will die of breast cancer but rather that they may be under better medical surveillance than the general population and that their excess risk of breast cancer deaths is offset by their lower ... methods, extent of disease, and first course of cancer- directed therapy. A separate record is coded for each primary cancer. With the exception of cases of in situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix, ... diagnosed in residents of the SEER geographic areas except basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin and in situ cervical cancer. SEER selects areas on the basis of their ability to operate...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20
Cancer of the Larynx doc
... adult cases of cancer of the larynx. Cases were obtained from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Cancer of the larynx is ... speaking. The glottis is the portion of the larynx where the vocal cords are located. The area above the vocal cords is referred to as the supraglottis and that below the vocal cords as the subglottis. ... cavity cancer as the most common cancer of the up- per aerodigestive tract (1). Tobacco and alcohol use are widely recognized as the key causative factors for many of these tumors (2). The cell...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20
Cancer of the Lung pot
... laterality). Subsite Over 40% of the lung cancers originated in the upper lobe no matter at which stage they were diagnosed. For stage I, 61.6% of the cancers originated in the upper lobe and 28.9% in the lower ... II, 53.9% of the cancers originated in the upper lobe and 34.1% in the lower lobe. For stages III, IV, and unknown, the origin Table 9.3: Cancer of the Lung: Number and Distribution of Cases ... situ cancers except basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin and in situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix. SEER selects participating institutions on the basis of two criteria: their...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20
Cancer of the Pancreas ppt
... 1.2 Chapter 7 Cancer of the Pancreas National Cancer Institute 66 SEER Survival Monograph Chapter 7 Cancer of the Pancreas National Cancer Institute 64 SEER Survival Monograph Table 7.7: Cancer of the ... tumors; however, these histologic types only comprised 1.7%, 1.4% and 0.2% of all cancers of the pancreas. Histology and Age The most frequent histologic types of cancers of the pan- creas are ... majority of cancers of the pancreas were adenocarcinomas of the exocrine pancreas that occurred in patients 60 years of age and older. Malignant endocrine tumors arising from the islets of Langerhans,...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20