Essays on Cancer

Immunophenotyping is used to analyse heterogeneous populations of cells to identify the presence and quantities of the various populations of interest. This is performed by adding antibodies with fluorochromes to the cells which expresses specific antigens expressed by these cells, these are referred to as...

In this era, Breast cancer is a deadly disease among the women all over the world with high mortality rate. It is spreading rapidly because of the unconsciousness and the inactivity of the women. Most of the women don’t understand that they have breast cancer...

Susan Sontag’s “Illness as Metaphor” focuses in on the analysis of tuberculosis and cancer, how they overlap, and what she believes each of the conditions symbolize. Although disease originates from biology, the lived experience of the disease, the illness, takes into account other factors such...

Just as our fingerprint is unique to ourselves, cancers also hold unique genetic characteristics. Thus, we can only expect that different cancer patients will respond differently to drug treatments. Here’s where precision medicine comes into play. Just as a tailor takes down the measurements of...

Diagnostics is an expression that is derived from the word diagnosis. During the diagnosis process, it is advisable for a patient to seek multidisciplinary management so as to get accurate results and analysis. In a lay man’s language, multidisciplinary management is a form of patient...

Breast cancer is the second major leading cause of cancer fatality in women. Mammography prevails the best method for initial detection of cancers of the breast, capable of identifying small pieces up to two years before they grow large enough to be evident on physical...

Cancer. The word can evoke fear in anyone, and it’s diagnosis can come like a thief in the night. One of the most exceedingly terrible paths for the human populace to be diminished is biting the dust from cancer since it is assessed that the...