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Flavor Aversion and Chemotherapy Patients, 2004.
A look at flavor aversion and its relevance to chemotherapy patients.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 87.95
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This paper discusses flavor aversion and its relevance to patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment. It looks at the role of classical Pavlovian conditioning in establishing food and flavor aversions, and ways to counteract them. The paper also points out the importance of this phenomenon in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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"This paper concerns the topic of flavor aversion which develops in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. It is an interesting subject to me because I have known people undergoing such treatment and many of my friends have had family members or friends who have had to undergo chemotherapy treatment for cancer. The one thing that all these people notice is that they can no longer enjoy their favorite foods. One reason is because chemotherapy is very non-specific and is aimed at killing dividing cells.
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High Dose Chemotherapy and Stem Cell Transplants for Breast Cancer, 2003.
An evaluation of the safety and efficacy of high dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplant as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
5,438 words (approx. 21.8 pages), 24 sources, MLA, $ 133.95
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This paper discusses metastatic breast cancer, cancer that originates in the breast and moves to lymph nodes and other bodily tissues. It provides a research study on its treatment using high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) followed by an autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). It analyzes its efficacy and safety as well as some of the arguments that state that the effectiveness of HDC/ASCT may vary according to various non-treatment related factors-- age, stage of disease at diagnosis, hormone receptor status, use of prior adjuvant chemotherapy, initial disease-free interval, response to prior chemotherapy and number and sites of metastases. The paper includes tables of figures and diagrams.
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Abstract
Introduction
Current Research
Efficacy
Safety
Future Prospects
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"Stress is another factor affecting treatment outcomes because high levels of stress may directly impact patients; both their mental and physical health. A study on post-traumatic stress disorder in stem cell transplant patients confirmed harmful effects on patients? quality of life. This study was not limited to patients with metastatic breast cancer, but was completed in a similar way as the previously mentioned studies that recorded personal health. Patients were asked to fill out questionnaires to judge if they were suffering from post-traumatic stress as a result of stem cell transplant. It was reported that the week before the transplant, approximately half of the patients had the highest levels of distress, which declined only slightly after the transplant was completed (Wettergren et al., 1999). The body?s response to stress is complicated involving several organs, hormones and responses. This is extra energy that the body is expending and is therefore less able to focus on the task of recovery."
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Chemotherapy, 2002.
A study of chemotherapy - its side effects and its use as a treatment for cancer.
1,731 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper discusses the various forms of chemotherapy. The paper describes the different possible side effects of chemotherapy, outlining short term and long term side effects.
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"Cancer is a disease of the body's cells. Cells in all the tissues and organs of the body constantly grow and divide to swap old and damaged cells and maintain the health of the body. Normally, all cells divide and reproduce themselves in a systematic and controlled manner. In cancer, however, some cells keep dividing without proper control, forming a lump (which is called a tumor). In leukemia, too many white blood cells are formed. Chemotherapy is the use of anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells (including leukemia?s and lymphomas). There are over 50 different chemotherapy drugs and some are given on their own, but often numerous drugs may be combined (this is known as combination chemotherapy). The type of treatment one are given for ones cancer depends on many things, particularly the type of disease one have, where in the body it started, what the cancer cells look like under the microscope and how far they have spread, if at all."
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Gallium Chemotherapy Drugs, 2003.
This paper describes the discovery, development and clinical uses of gallium-based chemotherapy drugs.
2,065 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper describes gallium-based chemotherapeutic drugs. Included is a brief discussion of the history and development of these drugs, clinical uses for gallium, and problems with gallium chemotherapy. Also included is a discussion of potential alternate uses for gallium drugs, including using gallium as an antiviral or to combat hypercalcemia.
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"Gallium is a naturally occurring group IIIa heavy metal. Because of its low melting temperature (303 K), chemists have long used gallium industrially as a component of low-melting alloys. It has only been within the last forty years, however, that scientists have studied gallium in medicine. Following the serendipitous discovery of platinum?s antitumor properties in the late 1960s, the U.S. National Cancer Institute started a systematic study of several metallic elements to see if they too might display anticancer effects. While all of the Group IIIa elements (boron, aluminum, gallium, and thallium) displayed significant cytotoxic activity, gallium was the most active and least toxic of these metals when tested against animal tumors.1 Later, in a separate development, researchers noted gallium?s ability to localize in bone, leading clinicians to use 67Ga citrate in some diagnostic bone scans. In the 1970s, a physician conducting such a scan observed quite accidentally that gallium accumulated in nonosseous malignant tissue as well.2 Indeed, further tests showed that gallium was the only IIIa metal to display cytotoxic activity when inoculated at a site other than the tumor itself.1 These unique properties spurred a great deal of research interest in developing gallium-based chemotherapeutic agents."
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Futures Markets & Risk Aversion, 1996.
Role of aversion in markets, impact on prices, reliability, backwardation.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 47.95
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"Futures markets are commodity markets in which participants anticipate the price of commodities in the future and take positions which, ideally, will yield a profit. This speculation can exist on almost any commodity, but it is typically associated with agricultural commodities such as farm products and livestock. There is also a strong futures market for metals and mined materials (including oil) and even for various currencies. Futures markets are an international phenomenon, with activity on specific items from specific countries being bid on. Throughout the development of the futures markets, the element of risk has received considerable attention by analysts. If the speculator anticipates the price movement of a commodity incorrectly, substantial losses can be realized; conversely, if the speculator anticipates the movement ..."
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Aversion Therapy, 2001.
A look at the application of the therapy known as classical conditioning.
2,828 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 10 sources, $ 84.95
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In this paper aversion therapy is studied as a therapy employed in the treatment of alcoholism, smoking, compulsive gambling, and sexual deviations. Aversion therapies are described and critically assessed. Many deficiencies are pointed out and suggestions for improvements are made. It is suggested that the future of aversion therapy lies in the complete comprehension of the procedure.
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"A therapy, which employs classical conditioning, is known as aversion therapy. In aversion therapy a negative emotional reaction is conditioned to a maladaptive behavior that a subject perceives as pleasurable (Liebert & Spiegler, 1998, p. 516). In this approach the problem behavior, known as the conditioned stimulus (CS), is paired with the unconditioned stimulus (UCS). The unconditioned stimulus (UCS) can be administered in such forms as chemical or electrical aversion. The unconditioned stimulus (UCS) results in the unconditioned response (UCR), which may be anxiety, fear or nausea. After numerous pairings of the problem behavior (CS) with the aversion therapy (UCS) the problem behavior (CS) will elicit fear, anxiety or nausea (CR). "
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Artificial Flavors, 2005.
This paper examines the manufacturing and utilization of artificial flavors.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper about artificial flavors gives examples of different chemicals and the flavors they produce. The author also relates how McDonald's got their french fries to have a distinctive taste. The paper includes the dangerous side effects of some of the chemicals used in artificial flavors.
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"Artificial flavors are added to manufactured foods to change or augment its taste. Flavouring Nature-identical flavorings are the chemical equivalent of the natural flavor but, instead of being extracted from the source, they are synthesized chemically."
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Perceptions - Hearing and Flavor, 2002.
An insight into the perceptions of flavor and hearing including an overview of sensory processes and the workings of the ear.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper is a study resource for the physics and perception of detection of flavor and hearing. It consists of details regarding the sensation of flavor and the sensory processes in it. It also covers the details of the physical function of the components of the inner ear and the process of perception within the inner ear.
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Flavored Tobacco, 2008.
This paper discusses the strengthening of legal provisions regarding the prohibition of the sale of candy and fruit flavored cigarettes.
2,576 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the tobacco industry is considered to be one of the most profitable businesses worldwide and yet there is an increasing number of anti tobacco campaigns intended to draw the attention of smokers to the imminent dangers of cigarette consumption. The writer points out that flavored tobacco is one of the most important elements which draw teenagers and even children to take on smoking due to the fact that it represents a combination between a grown up idea and a mixed aromatic pleasure. The writer discusses that despite constant denials from the tobacco companies, marketing strategies and the products offered are without a doubt a major incentive for the younger generation to take on smoking. The writer maintains that from this point of view, the bill prohibiting the sale of candy and fruit flavored cigarettes in West Virginia is indeed a step forward in the fight against smoking; however, there are many aspects which must further be regulated in order for this phenomenon to be reduced.
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"These initiatives notwithstanding, the public opinion as well as the US legislative bodies has considered it essential for a strengthening of the legal provisions limiting the means though which children and young adults can come in contact with tobacco products. In this sense, the West Virginia legislature took an important step towards a tougher control on the conditions in which tobacco companies can make available different types of cigarettes as well as the conditions in which such products can be sold to the public. The Bill prohibiting the sale of candy and fruit flavored cigarettes is in this sense an essential legal initiative for the amendment of the Code of West Virginia from 1931.
"The aim of the bill refers to the prohibition of candy and fruit flavored cigarettes selling on the territory of the state. The amendment made to the Tobacco Bill comes as a corollary for what was considered to be a shortcoming of the legislative. "
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Alienation Comes in Many Flavors, 2002.
An analysis of the theme of alienation in the poems "Acquainted With the Night" and "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper presents a discussion about the theme of alienation in two of Robert Frost's poems. The author of this paper takes us through "Acquainted With the Night" and "Mending Wall" to point out examples of how the theme of alienation is woven throughout the works.
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Wendy Brown's Perspective on Tolerance, 2008.
A review of Wendy Brown's perspective on tolerance as contained in her book, "Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire."
1,236 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper discusses and reviews Wendy Brown's book, "Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire." The paper discusses the content of the book and specifically discusses Brown's perspective on tolerance. It suggests that Brown's work is biased by the writer's own decidedly biased liberal viewpoints, rather than representing a comprehensive historical analysis of the development of tolerance as we know it today.
Table of Contents:
Tolerance According to Wendy Brown
Subjugation and Society
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"The first part of the book read like a dry political prose, steeped in political theory. However, midway through the book, Brown's style shifts to an impassioned style of writing. Brown's definition of Liberalism is an example of her passion. She paints a picture of society where our differences, held only in private drive us apart, rather than unify us. Differences would then no longer be used to allocate culture and society. Brown failed to recognize and address viewpoints that were different from her own. This weakened her argument considerably. It appears that Brown assumes that her audience will agree with her. She does not even address viewpoints, historical or contemporary that would invalidate her arguments. Brown makes her point by avoiding that which does not fit her mold."
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Cancer: Research and Treatment, 2000.
A technical analysis of conventional and non-conventional approaches to various cancers, focusing on radiation, drugs, chemotherapy, interdisciplinary cooperation and the future.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 13 sources, $ 111.95
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A technical analysis of conventional and non-conventional approaches to various cancers, focusing on radiation, drugs, chemotherapy, interdisciplinary cooperation and the future.
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"Paradigm Shift in Cancer Research andTreatment
Introduction
Some people consider the cooperation and coordination of scientists in physics, chemistry, and biology in the development of technological advances that can be applied to such tasks as the treatment of cancer to reflect a paradigm shift in the approach to cancer research and treatment. Others, such as Drs. Schacter and Williams (15), however, believe that the cooperation and coordination among these disciplines began so long ago and is now so well entrenched in scientific behavior that far from reflecting a paradigm shift, cooperation and coordination among physicists, chemists, and biologists in cancer research and treatment is the conventional approach to treating cancer.
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Ovarian Cancer, 2006.
An analysis of the impact of income levels on access to chemotherapy treatment among African-American and white women.
1,143 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses how income can influence the care of cancer patients. According to the paper, those in higher income groups have greater access to better treatment and care. This paper extends to peer-reviewed studies of ovarian cancer in African-American and white women in general. The paper aims to isolate case studies and scientific investigations that provide additional insights into the guiding research questions concerning the impact of income level on access to chemotherapy treatment for ovarian cancer.
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Introduction
Statement of Problem
Importance of Study
Scope of Study
Rationale of Study
Methodology
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"Furthermore, researchers report that ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate among all female reproductive system cancers among African American women because the disease is not diagnosed in most cases until it has reached advanced stages; fortunately, though, there are promising clinical trials underway that focus on chemotherapy (Health hotline, 2003). Clearly, then, early detection and treatment are vital components of an effective clinical intervention, but healthcare resources are by definition scarce and therefore can be reasonably expected to go to those who have the ability to pay for them. Indeed, lower-income women in general do not have access to the same level of medical care, nor can they always afford to take time off from work, if they are employed, to seek such care, as their white middle-class counterparts (Kinnon, 1999). "
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Personality, Behavior and Attitudes of Individuals, 2008.
A discussion regarding how personality and the behavior and attitudes of individuals impact risk aversion.
1,497 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper discusses the links between personality and the behavior and attitudes of individuals. It examines how personality impacts risk aversion and risk-seeking attitudes and behaviors within individuals. The paper focuses on this particular characteristic and examines the implicit motivations individuals have to be risk seeking and risk averting in their attitude and behavior.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Background
Dependent Variable: At Risk Behavior that lead to Delinquency
Independent: Personality Types and Peer Influence
Information Need
Process
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"In order to delineate a specific link between personality characteristics and its resultant affects on attitudes and behaviors towards delinquency, a careful review of personality diagnosis of young children pre-maturity must be examined. This process will involve dissecting data of children who have received full personality tests that delineates their five factor model and correlates this data to the development of aggressive and anti-social behavior and attitudes. Instead of examining concrete violence or delinquencies later in life, this procedure will focus on predicative behavior such as aggressiveness and anti-social attitudes. Thus it will examine the root link between personality and behavior and attitude rather than behavior and delinquency."
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Breast Cancer in the Elderly, 1994.
An assessment of the treatment options (mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy) including incidence, fatality rate, diagnosis, misconceptions and prognosis.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, $ 55.95
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"Breast Cancer Treatment in the Elderly
More people are surviving to old age than ever before. In the elderly, cancer is a quite common occurrence; only the circulatory diseases are seen more frequently. One type of cancer, breast cancer, frequently occurs in elderly women. Currently, there is some controversy over how the elderly breast cancer patient should be managed.
In the next several decades, the number of older persons in the United States is expected to double in size (7:2507). By the year 2030, over 65 million Americans, or one in five, will be 65 years of age or older. Furthermore, even within this population of seniors, significant age.shifts will occur. In general, the old will become older: by the year 2000, almost 48% of the elderly will be over 75 years of age. It is within this group that cancer..."
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