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  2. Cancer pain - Wikipedia

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    A person's adjustment to cancer depends vitally on the support of their family and other informal carers, but pain can seriously disrupt such interpersonal relationships, so people with cancer and therapists should consider involving family and other informal carers in expert, quality-controlled psychosocial therapeutic interventions.

  3. Mustard gas - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, if cell death is not immediate, the damaged DNA can lead to the development of cancer. [2] Oxidative stress would be another pathology involved in mustard gas toxicity. [citation needed] In the wider sense, compounds with the structural element BC 2 H 4 X, where X is any leaving group and B is a Lewis base, are known as mustards.

  4. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer , rather than fatal injury.

  5. Burn - Wikipedia

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    Burns that affect only the superficial skin layers are known as superficial or first-degree burns. [2] [11] They appear red without blisters, and pain typically lasts around three days. [2] [11] When the injury extends into some of the underlying skin layer, it is a partial-thickness or second-degree burn. [2]

  6. Smoke inhalation - Wikipedia

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    Smoke inhalation is the breathing in of harmful fumes (produced as by-products of combusting substances) through the respiratory tract. [1] This can cause smoke inhalation injury (subtype of acute inhalation injury) which is damage to the respiratory tract caused by chemical and/or heat exposure, as well as possible systemic toxicity after smoke inhalation.

  7. Doctors: Cancer patients cured a decade after gene therapy - AOL

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    They say the two examples show the treatment, called CAR-T cell therapy, can attack cancer immediately, then stay inside the body for years and evolve there to keep the disease at bay. Such so ...

  8. Chemical burn - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, chemical burns can be caused by biological toxins (such as anthrax toxin) and by some types of cytotoxic chemical weapons, e.g., vesicants such as mustard gas and Lewisite, or urticants such as phosgene oxime. Chemical burns may: need no source of heat; occur immediately on contact; not be immediately evident or noticeable; be ...

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Eleven state Medicaid programs put lifetime treatment limits on how long addicts can be prescribed Suboxone, ranging between one and three years. Multiple state Medicaid programs have placed limits on how much an addict can take per dose. Such restrictions are based on the mistaken premise that addiction can be cured in a set time frame.