Genetic Counseling To Find Cancer Risk
Did you know that rolling your tongue is an inherited trait from your parents? All of us are made up of unique characteristics programmed by our genetic make up. Other than identical twins, everyon...
Articles by Tara Baney, RN, MS, AOCN
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Advances In Stem Cell Transplants Increase Successes
Certain diseases such as leukemia, blood disorders, and immune disorders were once considered incurable. However, with the development of the bone marrow transplant (BMT), people with these disease...
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Head and Neck Cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, more than 55,000 Americans will develop cancer of the head and neck this year; 13,000 of them will die from it. Cancers of the head and neck region include...
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Targeted Therapies Fight Cancer
Over the past few years, a new class of drugs called targeted therapies, which focus on interfering with the inner workings of the cell, have been developed. They interfere with the inner workings...
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The Other Side of Cancer
With over 10 million cancer survivors in the United States, most people know of someone affected by cancer. It is a disease that touches everyones life directly or indirectly, including mine. For t...
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New Test & Trial Examine Risk of Recurrence For Breast Cancer
Over 212,920 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year in the United States. It is the most common type of cancer among women in this country (other than skin cancer), according to the...
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Signs, Symptoms and Treatments For Bladder Cancer
The American Cancer Society estimates that 61,420 people will be diagnosed with bladder cancer and 13,060 will die from the disease in 2006. Bladder cancer occurs more commonly in people over the a...
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Simple Precautions Can Decrease Rish of Skin Cancer
With the warm weather beginning to arrive, we all are anxious to spend more time outdoors. It feels great to be outside in the sun until that evening when you realize that you did not apply any sun...
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Early Detection Is Key To Overcoming Testicular Cancer
What do Lance Armstrong, John Kruk, Scott Hamilton, Tom Green, Richard Belzer and Hsing-Hsing (the Washington, D.C. panda) all have in common? They all have been diagnosed and treated for testicula...