Breast Cancer: Do you have it? Breast cancer is a spreading disease that is not untreatable but can be deadly if not taken seriously. Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that is developed from multiple cells. The disease occurs mostly in women, but does occur rarely in men. Breast cancer is a ve...

Fighting Breast Cancer If a woman were to be diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, it was most likely that she wouldn't survive. There wasn't much knowledge of the subject then leaving doctors clueless in how to treat the matter. With all of the technology of today, the medical wor...

Breast Cancer In the United States in 1999 alone, an estimated 43,700 people will die frombreast cancer. It is the number two cancer killer among females ages 15 to 54.On average if a woman gets this disease, their life expectancy dropsdrastically. This cancer is within the top three cancers...

Almost everywhere you look there is controversy over whether breast self examination (BSE) really works as a cancer detection method or not. WIXT (News channel 9 in Syracuse) actually had a segment devoted to promoting the practice a few years ago. They still have many guides on how to do BSE and ...

Everyday, at least 3,000 people are diagnosed with cancer. The cells divide in the body more rapidly and keep growing when they would normally stop. A large mass of cells may form into a tumor. The cancer cells that have developed may interfere with the work of normal cells in the body. The diagnosi...

Prostate cancer prevention and treatment "In 2005, over 232,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and over 30,000 men will die from it."("Prostate Cancer Facts.") That's one new case every two and a half minutes and a man dieing every seventeen minutes. That leave...

A lot of people have known someone who has died of cancer. But what is cancer? Cancer is a disease. However, cancer can't be spotted and treated immediately like any other disease. This is because, well, cancer isn't just any other disease. It's a group of diseases that involve abn...

Radiation as Detection and Treatment of Breast Cancer Radiation plays a major role in the detection and treatment of breast cancer through mammograms and radiation therapy. Cancer, or tumors, are malignant growths which do not function like a normal cell. Instead, they grow uncontrollably uncheck...

What If There Was Not Lung CancerOne of the most powerful and deadliest forms of cancer is lung cancer. What would the world be like today if this disease did not exist? Maybe it would be overcrowded but one thing is for sure a lot of people would be out of jobs and looking everywhere for money an...

Integrated into the story of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a "case history" of a depression patient, from it's subtle beginnings to it's terrifying consequences to it's shaky resolution. On the subject of this depression, there is an article written by William Styron which, in the course of descri...