during adolescent growth, which could be why 80% of all osteosarcoma childhood cases occur in the lower long bones and at the time of puberty (Mirabello & Savage 5). The chances of a cell dividing uncontrollably are increased at a time of rapid cell growth when there is many more cells dividing that could go suddenly go uncontrolled, and therefore the answer of how osteosarcoma is ignited could lie in puberty. On the contrary, the answer may be found in a small gene that prevents osteosarcoma patients from responding well to the chemotherapy treatment. Chelsea received chemotherapy through her port, which is a small disc inserted into the chest area that connects to a large vein and serves as a substitute to using an IV through the veins. Most chemotherapy patients have a port put it so that there is minimal damage to the veins in the arms due to the large amount of times it needs to be used. Through this port she received very strong chemotherapy drugs such as cicplatin and methotrexate for about a year that was expected to put her in remission. The doctors told us that her necrosis rate was expected to be about 70%, necrosis rate meaning well the chemotherapy worked, 100% meaning that the tumor is gone, but her necrosis rate didn’t make the 70% mark. In fact, her necrosis rate was zero. The year of suffering through that chemotherapy didn’t help at all, so the doctors had her genome typed out showing all her genes and where mutations had occurred. Chelsea had several
At today visit she is home alone. She is awake, alert and oriented. She states that she will be picked up by the bus to go to her radiation treatment. She reports that she continues to have neoplasm related pain in her shoulder and bladder. She describes
This cancer of the lymph nodes starts by destroying the cells apart of the body’s immune system and can be deadly. The 10 year survival rate for this cancer is 59% and requires years of therapy for recovery. When Kate first discovered she was sick, she had to undergo severe chemotherapy that has severely damaged her Kidney. She is currently doing dialysis to try and restore her damaged kidney, but only time will tell if she will need partial removal of her kidney or a complete transplant. When she is not in the hospital herself, she’s checking other patients in. Due to health care needs, Kimball currently works weekends as a receptionist at the Tallahassee Memorial Emergency Center.
T.C. went out for testing immediately and unfortunately the test came back that the cancer had aggressively metastasized throughout his body. His pain level increase daily and he became increasingly dependent for all aspects of daily care. Prognosis was for weeks rather then months.
Osteosarcoma(OS) is a primary malignant tumor of bone which is characterized by the formation of osteoid tissue. Although it is the most common malignancy of long bones after multiple myeloma [2], it is a relatively rarer entity in the craniofacial region. About 6% of Oss arise in the jaws .The estimated incidence of the new cases of Jaw OS (JOS) per year is 0 .07 in 100,000. (1) The etiology of OS is unknown, but some risk factors such as a previous history of ionizing radiation, alkylating agent, retinoblastoma and benign bone lesions such as paget disease and fibro osseous dysplasia have been associated with the development of head and neck OS.(2-4) JOS occur with a peak in the third through fifth decades of life. The mean age is
On the other end of the phone line, Virginia Tech Police Lt. Debbi Morgan could hear gunfire. It was so loud that it sounded as if someone was shooting right into the receiver.
In 2005 my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, just like Gus, but for her it was for the first time, not a recurrence. When my grandmother had breast cancer, had was 61 years-old. She started to think she had cancer when she saw a weird lump on her skin. Worried, she hurried to her doctor and asked her doctor about it. Her doctor performed a biopsy, a test that determines whether her skin on her breast had cancerous cells, on a section of her skin where she suspected cancer. The test came back positive and she had breast cancer. In the following months her body was bombarded by multiple rounds of chemotherapy every week. During chemotherapy she began to act just like Gus did when he had
Jane was diagnosed with lung cancer 6 months ago and underwent chemo and radiation. The treatment was not entirely effective, and her oncologist is recommending another course of chemo, along with a possibility of surgery. The oncologist and surgeon feel that this course of treatment would not necessarily be a cure, but would potentially extend life, and that the chance of living beyond a year is about 30-40% with this treatment. Without treatment, they estimate that she will likely live approximately 6-9 months. Jane is concerned that she will have little quality of life, as the first course of chemo and radiation caused extreme fatigue and nausea, as well as hair loss and skin peeling.
Osteosarcoma is also called osteogenic sarcoma in medical term (“Osteosarcoma”, n.d.). This cancer usually develops in growing bones. Although it can occur at any age, it‘s most commonly found in teenagers and young adults and is slightly more common in males than females. Any bone in the body can be affected, but the most common sites are the arms or legs, particularly around the knee joint(“Osteosarcoma: An Introduction.”, 2012). This cancer is caused by benign tumors and other bone diseases, radiation exposure, genetic factors, children, adolescents, males more than females.(“Osteosarcoma: An Introduction.”, 2012)
Cancer is very powerful because cancer often travels to other parts of the body, and forms new tumors there. With osteosarcoma, if the cancer doesn’t spread, the survival rate is about 75%. If it spreads, the chances of survival are around 30%. Treatments can help in some cases, but other cases are fatal. Cancer is very powerful, and can kill humans because no cure has been found
The normal process of cell division is altered in cancerous cells typically by mutations in the genes involved in the regulation of cellular division. The number of mutations normally will begin to spread because when the genes that make DNA repairing proteins become mutated, this causes the DNA that they would be repairing to become mutated as well. Some changes allow the damaged cells to divide more quickly than normal and to invade other tissues. The cancers cells can divide even where there are signals and normal cells meant to prevent the cell growth.
As a result, the amount of money that gets propelled back into the healthcare industry skyrockets as the list of medical issues following these treatments grows more and more extensive. A study done by Dr. John Diamond shows that females who undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments “face a 35% chance of developing breast cancer by the time they are 40, which is 75 times greater than average” (Dr. John Diamond, MD). Chemotherapy and radiation have been proven to weaken, and sometimes completely destroy, the immune system. This makes the already physically unstable patient even more susceptible to illnesses and diseases that they wouldn 't otherwise have had to worry about. Consequently, the recurrence of cancer is a very likely, and in some cases, unavoidable. But it is unacceptable that the most common and easily accessible drug is the reason why 35% of patients will develop a second cancer (haematologica.org). Many other cancers can come as a result of chemotherapy too. One study found that, "Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo
I have a few reasons on wanting to examine this topic. I will probably never be able to understand exactly why or how cancer forms or why it affects certain people, I want to try to continue my research over this type of cancer because it is one that has greatly affected my family. The purpose for this paper is to give my audience a better understanding of osteosarcoma and the way it is formed and the symptoms, what metastasized forms of cancer are, and why osteosarcoma mostly happens in children and young
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Jennifer, every case law in the United States is presided by other case laws. Juveniles transferred to criminal court is very much base on juvenile offenders in early years that were tried as adults. Whether or not the cases were fair is being questioned. I understand that juveniles commit adult crimes; however, juveniles under the age of fourteen, in my opinion, should not be tried as an adult due to their lack of understanding the juvenile court system. There needs to be an end to "totality of the circumstances" in some juvenile offender’s cases. If every juvenile offender's attorney claim age as a “reasonable grounds” to have their case overturned this will become a continuous problem throughout the United States. I understand that juveniles