Lymphoma

Notable among these are changes in the female hormone levels estrogen. Excess estrogen promotes uterine cancer. Immune system dysfunction Impaired immunity including HIV infection leads to several cancers including Kaposi's sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and HPV-associated malignancies such as anal cancer and cervical cancer. 6.Cancer Symptoms Cancers are a group of hundreds of different diseases and affect various organs of the body. Cancer symptoms depend on the stage of cancer, the grade of…

C-myc is a transcription factor that is involved in the strict regulation of the cell cycle. It regulates genes that promote the induction of the cell cycle and it is also involved in apoptosis. The c-myc ¬gene is one of the most commonly activated oncogenes and has been found to be overexpressed in many cancers. Activation of this oncogene may contribute to as many as 100,000 cancer deaths per year in the United States alone (Dang et al., 2006). The discovery that this gene is involved in so…

Each area of knowledge includes an endless amount of information that is hard to understand if looked at on a surface level. When I started brainstorming subtopics under each area of knowledge, I could not stop because there are just so many. In order to fully comprehend this information and gain it as knowledge, one must use the ways of knowing. The ways of knowing allow us to look at each area of knowledge through a lens that helps us better analyze the information. Looking at each area of…

Research is the key foundation of learning as well as a stimulant of the mind; it causes people to further investigate a subject that they are interested in and to develop various viewpoints on the subject. However research comes at a price, not only in the form of hard work, stress, and mental strain, but also in the form that most often eludes research from being done, the monetary form. In the medical world, research is fundamental to further not only the ability to diagnose, to treat…

My plan for after graduation is to become a Registered Nurse (RN) at St. Jude in Memphis, TN. To achieve this goal, I will first have to complete college and graduate from nursing school along with passing the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) for Registered Nurses. During my time in nursing school, I will apply for the Nursing Extern Program that St. Jude provides for nursing students prior to graduation. After nursing school, I will get the job at St. Jude and I would like to work…

This is when the cancer starts in a group of glads that make the milk called the lobules. Non-Hodgkins lymphoma and sarcoma are among the rare forms of breast cancer. The Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer starts in your lymph nodes, lymphocytes are cells of the lymphatic system. Sarcoma Arises in the connective tissue include, fat, blood vessels, nerves, bones, muscles, deep skin tissue, and cartilage…

Ataxia-Telangiectasia Synonym: Louis-Bar Syndrome Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal recessive disease and a rare inherited disorder caused by the inactivation of the ATM gene. It can affect many body systems, but the defects are mainly found in the nervous system and the immune system. The ATM gene is important because it encodes a kinase protein, which plays a key role in repairing DNA breakage (1). If the ATM gene is inactivated, there will not be enough ATM protein and DNA damage…

go through to get rid of them from the body. But cancer cells do not go through programed cell death they skip it, that is why cancer is so deadly because the body doesn’t realize that it is cancerous till its too late. For example leukemia and lymphomas are cancers of the blood and the blood-forming tiissues and the cells of a persons immune system (Merck2009). Since these cancers are in the blood and affect blood vessels a persons body cant identify that they are cancerous because each person…

Chemical Contamination Hajra Takala Benedictine University Professor, David Milen, Ph.D.,MPH, MS, BA, AAS Chemical contamination refers to the presence of unwanted substances that make the food, air, or water unfit to use. There are two forms of chemical contaminants organic and inorganic. We have chemical contaminant in the substance that we are using every day. There is property or characteristic for some contaminants which is volatile, this lead to having like these contaminates in our…

that were performed recently. One was a bone marrow (aspirate and) biopsy, and this was negative for any malignancy. There was (a lymphocytosis), but flow cytometry did not identify any malignant forms. Fortunately, no evidence of leukemia or lymphoma were identified. At the time the bone marrow was done, her platelet count had dropped significantly to 27,000. It had been over 300,000. The bone marrow showed normal levels of (megakaryocytes) suggesting a peripheral destruction. Blood…