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MICROBIO 160 Lecture 17: Microbio 160- Lecture 17- Breast Cancer
1 in every 8 us women will develop breast cancer. Best way to avoid death by breast cancer is early detection through mammography. Mammography is now s
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Radiation Therapy, Biopsy, Chemotherapy
Estrogen programs breast and uterine tissue growth. Treatment isn"t always necessary for a particular type of cancer. Estrogen and hormones regulate bo
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Marlboro Man, Nicotine, Insecticide
By 1964, the surgeon general came out with a report that smoking is harmful- causes cancer. Once this fact came out the percent of people who smoked in
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Tumor Suppressor Gene, Colorectal Cancer, Colonoscopy
People have between a 4-6 percent chance of getting it in their lifetime. It"s the second most common cancer after lung cancer. Basis of all cancer is
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Prostate Cancer, Erectile Dysfunction, Brca2
Prostate cancer comes in many different forms. Often times prostate cancer is not metastatic and grows very slowly. In certain cases however, the cance
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Andrew Wakefield, Stratum Basale, Cervical Cancer
80 percent of sexually active people have been exposed to hpv. You can be exposed and not get cervical cancer. Viral dna from hpv makes cells cancerous
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, Pattern Hair Loss, Metastasis
2nd leading cancer death cause in men. Testosterone-androgen signalling is to estrogen receptor signalling. Iatrogenic- disease caused by mutated treat
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Apoptosis, Resveratrol, Unpaired Electron
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Randomized Experiment, Keratin, P53
Drug prices in us have no ceiling. Unregulated due to the fact that it"s everyone"s tax money. Let"s look at companies from beginning to when they get
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MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Euphorbia Tirucalli, Curcumin, Malaria
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