Nursing 3910A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cachexia, Constipation, Cervical Cancer
6 Dec 2017
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Outline: paper, background and context, risk factors and health promotion, management/nursing care, experience of cancer, test comments. Word of the week: alopecia: hair loss. Cancer: metastasis: spread of malignant cells, cells are more likely are less adherent and may break off, diagnosis looks for primary cancer, more likely sources of malignancies. Pediatric: common types, leukemia, cns tumour, lymphomas, neuroblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, wilms(cid:495) tumour, bone tumour, retinoblastoma, notable vs. Adult: more likely to have malignancy with dx, little known re: prevention, children haven(cid:495)t been around enough to to develop risk factors. So we don(cid:495)t know what to do to re: prevention. Fiber (and spinach) can help maintain a healthy body weight, which reduces risk: processes meat increase risk. Is cancer contagious? (ccs: short answer is no, rare cases with organ transplant, pregnancy/baby, h. pylori infection and stomach cancer, but, how could (cid:494)risk(cid:495) be passed between individuals, hiv herpes kaposi(cid:495)s sarcoma.
