Cancer Personal Statement

During my freshman year in high school, a highly malignant tumor was discovered on the back of my cranium. It had eroded my skull and was starting to leak into my brain. It was removed with no complications, but I was required to visit MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX for several years to check for any recurrence. Through this experience, I witnessed the fragility of life. A spark was ignited in me to pursue medicine and discover ways we could prevent cancer and other illnesses. I was immersed into the hospital setting and shadowed physicians of all types to find my possible niche. By studying the sciences, I feel I can have the greatest advantage in empowering myself and others. The STARS program would be crucial in allowing me to

Cancer is a major issue in our country today due to it having no cure, and it’s one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. I’ve been personally affected by this tragic disease by losing my uncle to colorectal cancer at the age of twelve. This disease has caused significant losses of life; therefore, it is my goal to join a team that has as its objective to finding a cure for cancer. Specifically, I will become a physician in order to become a part of the solution to cancer.

In 2016 approximately 1,685,210 cases of cancer will be diagnosed, and 595,690 people will die due to this disease. My uncle, unfortunately, was a victim of this deadly disease. My family and I witnessed the effects of this and it impacted us all strongly. I watched as my uncle underwent all the surgeries and treatments, and progressively got weaker and became fragile. The whole experience made me reflect upon myself and I desired to make a change, and help expand the research to develop a cure to end cancer.

Everyone hears the word “Cancer” and automatically thinks death? Imagine being told you have cancer a month before Christmas and having to start chemotherapy right away. That was me at age 16 barely a junior in High School, they say high school is supposed to be a great experience. And it was at the beginning which was my freshman and sophomore year. I was that girl athlete with lots of friends who went day by day not caring about my health I would eat lots of junk food and stay up late at night. I come from a Hispanic family single parent my mom and 4 siblings 3 girls and one boy. Two had already gotten married and there was only 3 left at home including me. My mom would work out in the fields so sometimes she 'd come home late, therefore

The prime condition of success ,the great secret ,is to concentrate my energy , thought ,and capital exclusively upon business in cancer .Having begun in research ,resolve to fight it out , to lead in it , adopt every improvement ,have the best machinery, and know the most about it .Two passions ,simple but overwhelmingly strong ,has governed my life : the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.I have sought knowledge . I have wished to understand the causes of cancer . I have wished to know why people die . And I have tried to apprehend the breakthrough in cancer treatment written by Gleevec who discovered the approach was to target the disease at the cellular and subcellular level .A little of this ,but not much , I have achieved.I long to alleviate the pain of cancer . As the mathematician Jules Henri Poincare said, Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks .I would take approaches as many scientists do .Scientist start an investigation by finding out what other scientists have learned about a particular problem.After known the facts have been gathered , the scientist come to the part of the investigation that requires considerable imagination . Possible problem are formulated. The scientists plans experiments,performs calculations,and makes observations to test hypotheses.When hypotheses are confirmed ,they are incorporated into theories. If I become a scientist

There is nothing anyone could have done. My sister didn’t mean to get cancer, and she couldn’t have stopped it from growing. I just wish things had happened differently and that my entire family wouldn’t be turned away from me now.

There's a saying I carried with me throughout most of my life, it goes like this: “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” At the age of ten, I stopped going to school due to lack of safety, and at the age of twelve, I watched my father get taken into a car by two armed individuals. I didn’t see him until two weeks later, after my mother agreed to give up our house, life savings, and assets for his release. Unfortunately, as an Iraqi of Assyrian and Chaldean decent, I realized that our presence was no longer welcome in the country I called home. However, it was also during that time that I had developed the outmost appreciation for the true value of education and security, two aspects I never took for granted afterwards.

The overwhelming beam of an eggshell light hits me like a crashing plane, as I roll down the hallway lying on a stale, rigid bed. The asphyxiation of disinfectant and sickness is compelling. I travel through two double doors with immense red letters on the door and come to a stop. They untuck the blankets from around me and manipulate my body onto a cold operating table. A long, tall figure behind me places a silicone mask onto my nose and mouth. I breathe in deep, with all of my might, the medicine begins to take over. I lose control. Unknowingly, I also loose brain cells as I fall into slumber. My body is officially prepared for surgery. I am officially altered. Not only by the scars, but by the repercussions. I became cancer free five years

Cancer is a serious and ever growing disease throughout the United States and across the globe. According to data from the National Cancer Institute (2016), about 39.6% of men and women will receive a cancer diagnosis within their lifetime. Due to advancements in screening and treatment, more people are now living with cancer longer than ever before. In 2014, there were close to 14.5 million people living with a cancer diagnosis and this number is going to rise nearly 5 million over the following 10 years (NCI, 2016). The 5-year survival rate for all cancers is also quite high at 68%. Despite the hopeful fact that survival rates are increasing, the incidence rate is also growing, meaning more people are being diagnosed with cancer (Von Roenn et al., 2013).

Cancer is a disease that is hard to define in one aspect because how it is defined is ever changing due to new unravelings every day, and each individual 's interpretation. Public awareness and misinterpretations make it even harder to define the disease, yet the public is the most fundamental aspect needed to spread knowledge of the impending epidemic and fund it’s defeat. Researchers have been attempting to overcome public speculation and funding obstacles many. To do so, these laborers must redefine cancer, attempt to provide interaction in treatment, continue research such as immunotherapy, duel with grants, work around different regional aspects, and the understand the impact that cancer research could have on other work fields.

We’ve all heard about the elusive cure for cancer. But cancer in itself isn’t just one specific disease:

My enthusiasm for this subject can be seen through my A-Level choices. Biology has allowed me to learn about the human body and metabolic reactions in more detail, and chemistry has taught me logical skills. I particularly enjoy the organic side of chemistry as it teaches how compounds behave together, and the structure of medication, for example aspirin. Finally, studying a humanity subject has also allowed me to gain analytical techniques, and has shown me how to criticise sources and see things from a different perspective.

Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate gland. The prostate is part of the male reproductive system. This gland is locates inside the body at the base of the penis, just below the bladder and in front of the rectum. It is composed of the glandular and fibrous tissue enclosed in a capsule of connective tissue. The prostate is in the shape of a donut and about the size of a walnut. It surrounds the first inch or so of the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder. Normal functions of the prostate depend on the presence of the male hormone testosterone, which is produced by the testes. The prostate produces semen, the thick, whitish fluid that carries sperm.

Cancer is one of the most well-known and most talked about disease in today’s world. This is because the incidence of the disease has never been higher. It is estimated that around 2.5 million people in the UK today, have been diagnosed with cancer. This figure has increased by around 500,000 in the last five years, and it is said that by the end of 2016 over a thousand people will be diagnosed with cancer every day in the UK. According to Cancer Research UK, 1 in 2 people today will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime.

Cancer is defined as the unregulated growth of abnormal, mutated cells in the body. Yet perhaps the more routine understanding of the disease is its seriousness regarding an individual’s health. Cancer comes in numerous differing forms that collectively hold cancer as the second leading cause of death in the United States according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. An array of cancers can affect any organ system in any person no matter the gender, age, or race.