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jrubin

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on: Jun 27, 2018
Fibrillation means that:
 
  A) the heartbeat is dangerously irregular
  B) the heart is beating too fast
  C) the heart has stopped beating
  D) the heart has suffered a heart attack

Question 2

Prostate cancer is graded and staged for aggressiveness based on how far it has spread throughout the body. Name the stages of prostate cancer.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jun 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Explanation: Fibrillation is a dangerously irregular heartbeat. Tachycardia is the heart beating too fast. Cardiac arrest means that the heart has stopped beating. If someone has had a myocardial infarction, they have suffered a heart attack.

Answer to Question 2

1. Stages A and B are cancers confined to the prostate gland.
2. Stage C cancer has spread to other tissues near the prostate gland.
3. Stage D cancer has spread to lymph nodes or sites in the body a distance away from the prostate.


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