National Nursing Review : Nursing Study Resources & Health Tips

Cancer of the cervix is caused in most cases by infection with human papilloma virus. The risk of cancer of the cervix will depend on the sexual activity of the person, the number of sexual partners but also the number of pregnancies, and infections has papillomatosis.

cervix cancer

In recent years, health professionals have been extremely successful in educating the public about a vaccine that can reduce risk, adolescent, to contract the human papillomavirus (HPV).

It is important that the majority of women over 30 have regular Pap tests or an HPV test and adopt a healthy lifestyle to prevent cervical cancer. Some experts say it is also useful to understand the virus, which sometimes causes cancer, and ways to prevent it. (more…)

What is cancer of the stomach?
The stomach cancer is an abnormal proliferation of cells in the stomach. It most often affects men, is rare before 50 years, and risk increases with age.
The chances of survival are greater if the cancer is diagnosed early, if spread to lymph is absent or limited, or if it is a superficial damage.

What are its causes?
Additional factors are known, but not always found: a personal history of stomach disease chronic inflammation of the stomach with atrophy, including infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, gastric ulcer, gastric polyps, surgery, high intake of salt, smoked foods. (more…)

In most cases a result of smoking, lung cancer remains the 1st cause cancer in humans and is becoming the most common cancer of women to breast cancer. Often diagnosed late, his chances of recovery are still limited. Only effective prevention: stop smoking!

What is lung cancer?
Also known as lung cancer or lung, is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lungs. Over 90% of cases it is caused by tobacco.

• smoking “active”: the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the number of years of smoking,
• Smoking or “passive”: people who live or work with smokers also inhale the smoke can develop lung cancer.

In 10% of cases, lung cancer is secondary to occupational exposure: asbestos, tar, arsenic, nickel, chromium, silica .. However, smoking is still increasing significantly the risk among workers exposed to these substances. (more…)

What is the prostate?
The prostate is a male sex gland located below the bladder near the rectum, and traversed by the urethra (urine drainage). It comes in sexuality, especially in the formation of sperm.

What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?
The prostate cancer develops at the periphery of the gland. He remains silent for a long time. The appearance of signs often reflects an advanced stage of disease. (more…)

Malignant tumor formed by the uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells that invade surrounding structures and tends to produce secondary tumors at bay. A tumor located in the stomach may result from an ulcer in Helicobacter pylori.

• Affects both sexes equally.
• The frequency decreases with the evolution of food preservation but remains high (9,000 new cases per year).
• Geographical disparity.

Risk Factors.

• Gastric lesions:
  ulcer;
  chronic gastritis;
  atrophic gastritis
  Helicobacter Pylori

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It is a malignant tumor that is to say, tumors formed by the uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells that invade surrounding structures and which tend to produce secondary tumors remotely (metastasis). Generally, it ‘s act by performing macroscopic adenocarcinoma most often ulcerative lesions infiltrating or vegetating.

The colon is a terminal portion of the digestive tract, large diameter (hence its name from the large intestine) which ensures the continuity of the digestive tract between the intestine and the anus through the rectum. It forms a framework that surrounds the abdominal cavity and small bowel loops. Its length is 1m to 1.50m and its size decreases the cecum (8cm) to the rectum (4 cm). (more…)

The breast cancer is the type most common cancer among women. During his life, one in nine women is likely to have cancer of the breast. Several factors play a role in the development of this cancer: family history, hormones, aging, etc.. Moreover, scientists have long suspected the lifestyle of being a major risk factor.

However, they could not identify precisely what components of lifestyle is the most influential.
For many years it was thought that a high intake of fat was one of those components that contribute most to risk of breast cancer. Now we believe instead that fat intake may play a role, but it is not the only factor, nor the most important. However, recent research indicates that a diet low in fat reduces the risk of recurrence of breast cancer.
Moreover, it appears that risk factors vary according to the hormonal changes experienced by women (premenopausal or menopausal). (more…)

These drugs are used successfully to treat cancer have yielded promising results that can prevent and even reverse type 1 diabetes in those already diagnosed.

With the use of two drugs to treat cancer, a team of scientific researchers from the University of California at San Francisco succeeded in preventing the diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes in laboratory mice are highly susceptible to further develop and could reverse in 80% of mice that already had type 1 diabetes. (more…)

The National Cancer Institute (Inca) published the results of the call for projects labeling of reference centers for cancer rare in adults, for eight rare diseases.
The tasks of referral centers for rare cancers in which the projects were evaluated, combine:

• Coordination of care between the reference center and centers of expertise;
• The definition of best practices;
• Organizing a double reading pathological (and molecular typing if necessary) systematic and free;
• The establishment of a multidisciplinary consultation meeting of action;
• Access to treatment very innovative;

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According to the Inca, 30% of cancers could be prevented with better primary prevention and screening effective. In 2008, 12.4 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million deaths occurred in the world. Forecasts for 2050 suggest a figure of 25 million new patients. 30% of cancers could be prevented. “In reality, said Dr. Christopher Wild, Director General of International Center for Research on Cancer, 80, or 90% of cancers are related to lifestyle, and therefore could be avoided.” These figures are enough to understand the urgency to act early on primary prevention to reduce certain risk factors, and with secondary screening effective.

Targeted actions
Management planning risk is especially vital to combat occupational cancers, potentially preventable. We must therefore put in place targeted measures to employees of companies at risk. The European REACH regulation on Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals, is already in this direction. (more…)