1. Information on Congenital Heart Defects More than 32,000 infants (one out of every 125 to 150) are born with heart defects each year in the United States. The defect may be so slight that the baby appears healthy for many years after birth, or so severe that its life is in immediate danger. Heart defects are among the most common birth defects, and are the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths. However, advances in diagnosis and surgical treatment over the past 40 years have led to dramatic increases in survival for children with serious heart defects.
According to the Canadian Medical Association only 1 out of 100 women under the age of 40 learns she has breast cancer (Heisey, Ruth, McCready, David). But over the course of her lifetime 1 in 8 women will contract the disease. As women we have learned to fear the worst. Breast cancer touches many of our lives but every lump doesn’t mean a death sentence. There may be benign reasons for breast lumps such as hormonal changes, the breast tissue itself, and cysts.
There are ways to remove cancer from the body, like getting a mastectomy or an oophorectomy. Also, not all women who carry a mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene will get cancer. Heredity and inheritance relates to the data in these charts because cancer can be passed down through families. Many of the women in these charts likely received the cancer from someone in their family who had cancer also. In order to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of preventive surgeries, I would need to see a chart of how many people the surgery was a success for and for how many people it had no effect.
Approach to Cancer Care Michael Addair R.N. Grand Canyon University NRS-410V Pathophysiology and Nursing Management of Clients' Health January 11, 2015 Approach to Cancer Care The second leading cause of death in the U.S. is cancer. Cancer is the uncontrolled cell growth, which then leads to unregulated cell division and in turn leads to formation of malignant tumors. These malignant tumors then invade near by body parts. Cancer can also invade other parts of the body through the blood stream and lymphatic system.
Instructor D Coffey Info 1001: Information Systems and Literacy Fall Quarter 2011 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Everyone’s heard of breast cancer, of leukemia, and of prostate cancer, but rarely do you ever hear about a cancer called Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that attacks the immune system’s main defense, the lymphatic system. Although we hear more about the others, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is slowly on the rise, rising 75% in 20 years. Everyone has had one of those mornings they feel a little run down and their lymph nodes are swollen on the side of their neck, using its army of red and white blood cells to help fight off the virus and get them back to feeling normal. That’s your Lymphatic system doing its job. What happens when it all
NMSC is the most common cancer in humans. UVB rays are absorbed into the skin, producing, burns, and eventually skin cancer. Recent surveys indicate that about 1 million new cases o f skin cancer are diagnosed every year in the US. 70% of which have resulted from overexposure to sunlight. Studies show that UVB rays are responsible for this effect.
How would you feel being the mother of a child who was told that they only have mere months to live? This was the case for the mother of 2, Cheri O'Connell. Her younger daughter was suffering from over 20,000 seizers a year, this equated to roughly 60 per day. The debilitating effects of epilepsy had reached a bitter end on young Tara and her body couldn’t take much more. After hundreds of trailed and failed pharmaceutical drugs they resulted to using a controversial medication – Cannabis Oil.
In the United States, about 1,050 children and adolescents are diagnosed with carcinomas each year. Of these, about 350 (35.5 percent) are thyroid carcinomas and 300-350 (30.9 percent) are melanomas. Adrenocortical carcinomas (1.3 percent), nasopharyngeal carcinomas (4.5 percent), other skin carcinomas (0.5 percent), along with other and unspecified (27.3 percent) make up the rest. All of the carcinomas represent only 9 percent of all cancers in children. Nearly 75 percent (2,047) of the childhood carcinomas occur in adolescents (15-19 years old), including 75 percent of the thyroid carcinomas, 80 percent of the melanomas, 63 percent of the nasopharyngeal carcinomas, and 74 percent of the other and unspecified carcinomas.
A dedicated lift team assists nurses and other staff when they cannot safely move patients. Since the initiative was launched in 2002, lift related injuries have fallen 60 percent. The team consists of 12 specially trained personnel who are available 21.5 hours per day, seven days a week. When a nurse needs assistance, he or she pages the team. Response time is about 15 minutes and the team averages about 100 calls per day.
“Although African-Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians make up nearly 25% of the United States population, only 9% of nurses belong to these ethnic groups,”(Mee). “The Council on Physician and Nurse Supply (March, 2008) determined that 3000 additional nurses must be graduated annually to meet the nation's health care needs, an expansion of 30 percent over the current number of annual nurse graduates. According to projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (November, 2007) more than one million new and replacement nurses will be needed