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Archive for May 12th, 2009
CIRCUMCISION – EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE
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Circumcision just before or during puberty may produce considerable emotional disturbance.
Some psychiatrists talk of the psychological shock to the infant circumcised without anaesthetic but this is difficult to prove.
Your doctor is not being irresponsible if he carries out your request to circumcise your son. Many doctors still consider this a necessary procedure. Others have no strong feeling either way and will agree to operate if the parents wish, but will not recommend it. Others are strongly opposed to circumcision and will not accede to the parents’ wishes. As in other areas of medicine, there are different views on what is correct treatment.
If circumcision has been the habit in your family, discuss with your doctor whether you should go ahead and have your son circumcised. You have the right to request it but your doctor also has the right to refuse if he does not think it necessary.
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Cancer growths are made up of cells which belong to our body but which have stopped behaving in a cooperative and orderly fashion. The following four features apply (with a few minor exceptions) to all malignant growths or cancers:
1.The cells cannot differentiate normally.
2. The growth of the cells is, to a large extent, outside of the body’s control.
3. The cells can spread to other parts of the body (metastasize).
4. The cells can invade and damage nearby normal body cells.
There is a great deal of variation in the differentiation of cancers. Even with one cancer growth, some areas are more differentiated than others. This is one of the reasons why the pathologist might ask for another specimen if he or she has trouble making a definite diagnosis. The pathologist would be hoping to get a more differentiated specimen which contained more clues to the origin of the cells.
As a general rule, the more differentiated a cancer is, that is, the more closely its cells resemble those from which they originated, Wgt. more favourable the outlook. More differentiated cancers tend to grow more slowly, spread later and damage adjacent cells less than the undifferentiated cancers.
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