During this time in the United Stated history, scientist were working hard on trying to make human cells grow outside of the body unsuccessfully. ... They started to grow and multiply, and for the first time in history the ability to grow human cells outside the body was successful. ... George Gey named these Henrietta Lacks cells the HeLa cells, sense he could not name them after her because no one knew they cultivated them from her body. Now that these human cancer cells were growing outside the body it would set in motion some amazing and some catastrophic results. ... It was within minut...

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Cancer is the result from abnormal cells throughout the body. ... "Cancers are named depending on where they start out in the body" (Leukemia, Medline Plus). ... Chronic lymphocytic leukemia over time eventually starts to affect the lymph nodes. ... The doctor may start off checking family history and doing a physical evaluation. ... "The drugs can interfere with any cell in the body. ...

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When they take this drug, these athletes don't really know what is happening to their bodies. ... The human body already makes a natural hormonal steroid, but when you put an anabolic steroid into your body it messes up the normal balance in your body and can change the way a person can and will act. ... A persons bone's will also become achy and will start to hurt. The tendons and ligaments will start to tare in different places. ... Overall, steroids have a harmful effect on ones body and can lead to death. ...

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The best possible way to keep students from starting to smoke and to get smokers to quit is through education. If students know just how harmful smoking is they are a lot less likely to start or continue this habit. ... The horrible effects smoking has on one's body were soon discovered. ... These are all terrible effects that smoking has on the body, but none of them are the most lethal. ... Letting students know the effects of smoking before they start, and if they have already started help students by counseling them to quit by providing them with information on various...

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Smoking started back in the 1400's with Native Americans smoking plant leaves in a pipe. Settlers started smoking soon after that by using crop leaves. ... Msn.com) Soon epidemiologists started to notice that lung cancer was increasing in the 1930's. ... Nicotine changes how the brain and the body function. ... It replaces the oxygen in the body. ...

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This tumor can spread invading other surrounding body tissue and parts to eventually consuming the whole body if left undetected and untreated. ... We start out by standing in front of a mirror and note as described above. ... Start in a consistent circular, waving, or whirlpool path from the below beginning of your armpit until you reach the center of your nipple. ... Your pattern must start from under your arm reaching your lower bra line, and then proceeding across your collarbone. ... It destroys the undetectable cancerous cells in the body and or breast. ...

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Normal skin helps to protect all of the major organs in the body and is the largest organ of the body. ... The subcutis helps protect the body's organs from any injury by its shock- absorbing effect, and it helps the body to conserve heat (Melanoma Skin Cancer, 2013). ... Melanomas can start anywhere, but are more common in certain areas of the skin. ... This means that "the cancer spreads from its starting point in the primary tumor to other parts of the body, occurs when cancer reproduces and sheds cells through the lymphatic system and blood vessels "(Poole, p.73). ... Dis...

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Rapid loss of body fat 2. Wasting away of body fat 3. ... Anorexia has many effects on the body. ... Another reason could be a subconscious rebellion against parents who set standards that are to high, consequently pressure mounts on the child and anorexia may start. ... Loss of fat and muscle tissue makes it difficult for the body to keep itself warm, causing extreme cold sensitivity. ...

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The skin's main job is to protect the body from infections and to insulate the body to keep it at the proper temperature. ... This means that the cancer did not start in the melanocytes located in the epidermis. ... The sun gives off ultraviolet rays, which are harmful to the human body. Basal cell carcinoma will affect body parts such as the eyes, ears and nose. ...

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Technology affects us in every way, starting from a simple flu to cancer and to extreme cases being death. ... A source states that, "cell phones do not start brain cancer, it only increases the risks of it being developed " but it is one of the main concerns people have around the world (Silverstone). ... Surgery can go wrong and the brain will have to adapt to the body and learn body movements over again or become a vegetable with no movement (state of comma). ... Starting with the simplest things a phone can contain fragments on the outside, to the most extreme sickness it can bring us all ...

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Tobacco Smoke The ways in which tobacco smoke affects the human body have been under extensive research and study for many years. ... Barely anyone starts to smoke after that age (adulthood). 4) 70% of adolescent smokers wish that they hadn't started and have tried to quit but did not succeed. 5) More than 80% of adolescent smokers who smoke more than a pack a day, report that they need or depend on cigarettes. ... These feelings become less intense as the body adjusts. ... The body is now receiving more oxygen than it is used to receiving, but in a few days it should return to nor...

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Many people who smoke don't know the effects that they are causing to their body. ... After one has been smoking for a few years, his/her teeth start to turn yellow, skin begins to tarnish, and appearance begins to look worse. ... These days, many young people start smoking very early in their life. ... Once they are addicted they will gradually damage their body throughout their lives. ...

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However, it is a start. ... I have a four year old I know that I will have to talk to her at some point about what is going to happen to her body when she starts going through puberty, her cycle (menstruation). This was a very helpful resource for me, knowing I have to explain to her that one day her breast may start to feel a little sore and blood will start to come from her vagina. ... How can you explain to a young child that blood sheds from her uterus because the eggs have not been fertilized, this is how your body prepare itself to have a baby? ...

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When the girls start skating before puberty they are said to have the perfect body therefore the only thing they had to worry about was their performance. ... Anorexia usually begins around the time of puberty when the bodies of young females start to fill out. ... She was unable to complete her jumps on the ice skating rink because her 2 body was terribly deprived of the proper nutrients. ...

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Maintaining a weight 20% below ones expected body weight fits the criteria for the emotional eating disorder known as anorexia. ... In this world women are given the message starting from a very early age that in order to be happy and successful in life, they must be thin and beautiful. ... The victim may feel fat, even though their body weight is well below the normal weight of their height and age. ... Anorexia survivor Nanett Pearson, a former Miss Utah in 1996, explains I became obsessed with body image. ... The external changes include dramatic weight loss,...

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Smoking gives a lot of effects to your body. ... Co makes oxygen in your body to move very slowly. So it would make your body to react very slowly, which would make you very weak. ... So I think we should start to teach from when children are young. ...

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When sunlight strikes the body, it also increases the tone of the muscles, under the exposed skin. Also sunlight and fresh air aid the nutritive processes of the body by increasing the blood supply to the muscles. They help burn up fat and develop your body tone. ... Daily exposure to light also resets the system that controls the body's internal clock. ... That statistic alone should be enough to make anyone start tanning. ...

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More often than not the start of anorexia in a young girl follows the realization that she does not like the shape of her body and that she is overweight. The point of being overweight and not being happy with your body is common for most young girls although in the case of girls with anorexia, it becomes an obsession. ... Despite the responses of the body most patients suffering from the disease continue to exercise their normal routines, which increases the heart rate to that of a normal woman. ... As well by starving their bodies they alter the quantity and composition of their saliva, w...

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Tobacco Smoke The ways in which tobacco smoke affects the human body have been under extensive research and study for many years. ... Barely anyone starts to smoke after that age (adulthood). 4) 70% of adolescent smokers wish that they hadn't started and have tried to quit but did not succeed. 5) More than 80% of adolescent smokers who smoke more than a pack a day, report that they need or depend on cigarettes. ... These feelings become less intense as the body adjusts. ... The body is now receiving more oxygen than it is used to receiving, but in a few days it should return to nor...

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You exam your body you find a lump on your breast. ... The next sign is that the breast nipple becomes inverted, and starts to develop a type of rash. Further more changes in the skin texture may start to develop. ... The doctor may also exam the body to find any signs of it being spread. ... The only way to get breast cancer is through uncontrolled cell growth in the body. ...

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Eating a lot of vegetables can cut down your risk of getting prostate cancer by releasing antioxidants into the body that can help kill cancerous cells in the body. ... It is one of the hardest things in the world to quit and it is not a good idea to ever start. ... I think that if we could all quit smoking and start eating right the world would be a lot better place. ...

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The organs in the human body all work together to keep the body healthy and running properly. ... The information about the harmful effects of smoking is publicized, and more people are becoming aware of these effects and are either not starting or getting help to quit smoking. ...

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Maybe you start smoking only when someone offers you a cigarette, but there will be a day when you will feel the need of a cigarette. ... In the end your doing damage to your body and will feel the effects in the long run. ... It is still unhealthy for your body. ... In the long run you will still have problems but just like anything else if you use it to much for a long period of time all the damage will catch up with your body. ...

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The mouth is an amazing machine for speech and eating, it actually starts the process of digestion. Normally good mouth hygiene ensures healthy teeth, and a lifetime of trouble free chewing (the muscles of the jaw are the strongest of the body). ... Five-year survival rates range 50 to 90 percent when throat cancer is diagnosed early, and from 5 to 25 percent when it has spread elsewhere in the body. ... Symptoms caused by a tumor in the upper body or lower throat may include: Nagging Cough, Hoarseness, or a mild but persistent sore throat, Difficulty or pain swallowing, Traces of blood ...

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ALL is menacing seeing as it leaves no trace unless fully managed through the body. ... If the WBC is starting to decrease then there is a huge possibility that the patient might be suffering from ALL du to the instability of the WBC. ... The first phase is remission induction therapy: This is basically how the body would cope with the disease. ... The final stage is the maintenance therapy: From the name, it is easy to identify that this stage is where the patient maintains a healthy and stable life in order to maintain the amount of white blood cells in his/her body to avoid any abnormal...

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