Essays on Cancer

Melanoma is a malignant neoplasm of melanocytes that has seen a steady rise in incidence globally over the past 50 years. Malignant melanoma accounts for only 1% of skin cancers diagnosed but causes 60% of mortality due to skin cancers. Australia has the world’s highest...

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that produces a new or abnormal growth of melanocytes present in the epidermis, dermis, and sometimes subcutaneous layers of the skin. In the epidermis, melanocytes produce a brown pigment called melanin that gives the skin a tan/brown color....

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Ovarian cancer is amongst the deadliest cancers. It is the most widely recognized gynecological malignancy, third driving after cervical and uterine disease. Momenimovahed et al. (2018) states that it has the most elevated death rate and worst prognosis. While ovarian disease has the lowest prevalence...

In the current age of the cancer research, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is one of the most hostile and deadly cancer worldwide. Pancreatic cancer is a sixth leading cause of death due to cancer in Europe and in United States it is the sixth due...

The pancreas is an organ with a digestive and endocrine function. It is a long, flat gland about 13–15 cm long that lies between your stomach and spine. It consists of three parts: The head of the pancreas. Pancreatic duct which joins with the common...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the lethal types of cancer with high mortality rate, due to the late development of clinical symptoms in early stages. An early method which is non-invasive for detecting pancreatic cancer to improve survival rate has been a challenge. Circulating microRNAs...

Pancreatic cancer or adenocarcinoma is a type of cancer that occurs when mutations in your DNA can cause cells in pancreas to grow uncontrollably and have a greater mortality than the normal cells. Pancreas is a gland that is located behind the stomach and in...

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...