Prostate Cancer Essay

Sort By:
Page 17 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Pesticide Use and Genetic Variants Involved in Lipid Metabolism on Prostate Cancer Risk. All of the authors of this research article are doctors and epidemiologists. Six of the authors are physicians at the National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. These doctors degrees make this article a reliable source as well as knowing that they work at centers that work with cancer. This article is found on Inspire and can be found in a journal

    • 4561 Words
    • 19 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Progenitor Lab Effects

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Direct effects of Estrogenic Chemicals on Human Prostate Stem and Progenitor Cells To directly assess the actions of estrogens on prostate stem and progenitor cells and to evaluate the relevance of these findings in the human prostate gland, we recently derived in vitro and in vivo systems utilizing primary cells cultured from prostates of young, disease-free organ donors. Adult prostate stem cells were enriched by FACS (CD49fhi, Trop2hi) or 3-D matrigel culture to form prostaspheres (PS). In the

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Arsenic Contamination

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Arsenic is an invisible killer that many people may be drinking as I write this article. It was such a problem for the United States, that in 2001, the US Environmental Protection Agency had to lower the maximum level of arsenic allowed in drinking water from 50 micrograms per liter (ug/L) to 10 micrograms per liter (ug/Liter) (Ryker, 2001). Despite this change in policy, this issue of arsenic contamination continues, and is even more widespread in many more places outside of the United States. Unlike

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Also included in the plan are programs to that will help change the mentality of public to use primary care instead of the Emergency Room, advocate for the free treatment for colorectal and prostate cancer and the linking of education of Health Care System to English as a Second Language courses in the community. Other plans include the formation of a community health Insurance Program for everyone in the community, application for grants that would allow Visiting Nurse to educate communities with

    • 985 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Speech On Organic Food

    • 1313 Words
    • 6 Pages

    this planet can survive without food, food is life basically. But, what happens when food can cause you your life or make your extremely sick, like being diagnosed with cancer. It is also known that too much of something is never good. Cancer is the cause of 20% of the worlds deaths, lung cancer is one of the most common type of cancers that an individual can get. Food take a major part in this diagnosis because nowadays many foods are processed and put into containers so it is easier to be transported

    • 1313 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    What is Cancer?

    • 1249 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The word "Cancer" means a group of diseases that are characterized by unrestrained cellular development. It It refers to cellular intrusion into neighboring tis-sues and may turn into metastasise if not treated at early stage. The most widely diagnosed malignancy in males is prostate cancer. Peripheral zone of the gland is the place where prostate cancers are generally found. It constitutes a dense arrangement of cancerous epithelial cells commonly in small form, penetrating glands with a symmetrical

    • 1249 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Fatty Acids

    • 904 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Can Fight Prostate Cancer’. In this, we were required to look at both the structure of fatty acids and cancer cells to describe and explain ways in which fatty acids can stop the growth and spread of prostate cancer cells. In our research, we found several mechanisms which fatty acids can use to fight prostate cancer. The main mechanisms which we researched was fatty acids: • Binding to free fatty acid receptor 4 (FFA4), stimulating a signal transduction, supressing inflammation, cancer cell growth

    • 904 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Many patients are dying of prostate cancer as standard treatments are not providing the necessary results. There are new types of immunotherapy drugs which are known to work miracles for several forms of cancer. The probability of this drug helping those with prostate cancer is extremely small. There has yet to be evidence collected about the benefits and pitfalls of the treatment. If doctors were to test it on patients outside of a clinical trial, then that could be up for debate within the medical

    • 733 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    hunter- gatherer, but when it comes to prostate cancer men can feel powerless. Hormone therapies are used to chemically castrate men as a means of treating the cancer through more personalised medicine. However, when the cancer becomes refractory, Docetaxel is used as a first line chemotherapy to treat metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer in combination with Prednisolone. Mr. Smith (pseudonym) was diagnosed with Advanced Metastatic Prostate Cancer which was controlled by Abiraterone Acetate

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    would say “bahala na” which means “I don’t care.” The study that Francisco Conde and his colleagues conducted on 2014 demonstrated how the beliefs and attitudes of the Filipinos towards prostate screening became a barrier to seeking care. Filipino men are more likely to be diagnosed of advance stage prostate cancer and experienced a low survival rate was linked to the lack

    • 940 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays