Ace The Oncology Nurse Certification Exam

A 24-year-old white male with no known medical history presented to the hospital with chief complaints of 2 weeks of progressively worsening p ...

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women, after skin cancer, and represents 14% of all new cancers in the United States.

Hyperuricemia is an elevated uric acid level in the blood. The normal upper limit is 6.8mg/dL, and anything over 7 mg/dL is considered saturated, a ...

Quality of life (QoL) is a concept which aims to capture the well-being, whether of a population or individual, regarding both positive and negativ ...

Medical professionals in all disciplines work with dying patients and doing so effectively is difficult. In the context of death and dying, patient ...

Bone tumors are mostly benign. Most important determinants in imaging of bone tumors are morphology on plain radiograph (well defined lytic, ill-de ...

There are nearly half a million-people requiring hemodialysis with approximately 100,000 new cases of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on an annual b ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) is an indolent malignancy characterized by increased production of mature bu ...

Clear cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a rare variant of adenocarcinoma accounting for only 4% of all cervical carcinomas. Its etiology ...

Granulosa theca cell cancers include ovarian tumors, which consist of granulosa cells, theca cells, and fibroblasts in variable combinations. Granu ...

Adverse events (AE) frequently occur in any medical system, and at least one in ten patients are affected.

The pectoral nerve (Pecs) block I and II are a novel technique to block the pectoral nerves, intercostal nerves 3 to 6, intercostobrachial nerves a ...

Wilms tumor, or nephroblastoma, is the most common renal cancer in the pediatric age group.

Although testicular cancers are relatively rare, accounting for only 1% to 2% of worldwide male cancer diagnoses, it is the most common malignancy ...

A platelet count that falls below the lower limit of normal, i.e., 150000/microliter (for adults) is defined as thrombocytopenia. Platelets are blo ...

Nausea is a commonly encountered symptom in healthcare, one that is difficult for any patient. Causes may be as simple as the body's defense a ...

The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the body’s organ system responsible for digestion, absorption, and excretion of matter vital for energy ex ...

Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) is a colorless, gaseous, sweet-smelling organochloride primarily used in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) wi ...