Essay Catharina Svanborg says she does

There are some trials that are being worked on around the world right now. For example, in 2013 a trial of an experimental treatment for advanced malignant melanoma took place in London at the Royal Marsden Hospital. One of the patients received three intravenous infusions, and after the second one the lumps that had been in her throat and breast had vanished. While those results were extraordinary, it is by far not the only time to have happened. There have been many similar trials that had the same results as this one. These new anticancer drugs are being called cancer inhibitors and some scientists are saying it could be the “turning point in cancer treatment.” Instead of

In the 1950’s there was a woman named Henrietta Lacks who had a condition of cervical cancer. She went to the doctors and one of them took her cells without her consent. The scientist started to do test on her cells that they extracted from Henrietta. They sent her cells to space to perform test and gather research on the effect of space travel on cells. They conducted all kinds of experiments oh her cells for all different kinds of diseases in order to find an antidote. Henrietta’s family had no idea what was going on, that her cells were being grown, multiplied and tested on. Henrietta later died in the hospital, her cancer cells lived on. With more research being conducted more scientist found solutions to some of the world’s diseases.

Cancer, medically called ‘tumorigenesis’ (Thaker, Lutgendorf, & Sood, 2007, p.430) occurs when cells in the body orient themselves for malignant growth. Such cells show ‘self-sufficiency in growth signals’, are ‘insensitive to anti-growth signals’ and have ‘limitless replicative potential’ (Thaker, Lutgendorf, & Sood, 2007, p.430). Once a particular set of cells become malignant, the malignancy can spread to other set of cells in different organs due to ‘crosstalk’ between the affected cells and their surrounding ‘tissues’ and ‘micro-environments’(Thaker, Lutgendorf, & Sood, 2007, p.430).

It was a cold morning in early February, Henrietta Lacks told her family, “Ain’t nothin serious wrong, she said. Doctors gonna fix me right up.” (pg. 31). She said this before going for cancer treatment. On that day, she and her family would have never known or even thought about how much her cancer cells would contribute to modern-day science.

According to statistics published by the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1.5 million new cancer cases diagnosed each year over the next decade. What factors contribute to the yearly incidence

Medical science has come a long way in the last 65 years. There have been many significant medical advances, including the development of the polio vaccine, the perfection of cell culturing techniques, the advent of medical commercialization, and progress towards understanding cancer and HIV. All of this -- and much, much more -- was made possible by one woman: Henrietta Lacks. She was an African American woman born in 1920, and by the time she died of cancer in 1951, she had made no direct contributions to the world of medicine. In fact, the thing that has since brought Henrietta’s name into the medical world was the very thing that ended up killing her. All of this was made possible by what doctors discovered inside of her tumor.

Cell culture was a very important area in which HeLa cells were used. Because of HeLa cells, they were able to have large quantities of cancer cells with which to conduct experiments. The cells were given to scientists and researchers who passed them on to others who gave them to even more scientists and researchers. The cells were injected with different drugs in the hopes of finding a cure for cancer and other diseases. HeLa cells did not grow like normal cells but were able to divide an unlimited number of times and provide unlimited amounts of cells for research. During our first semester we learned about cell division and how cells could only divide a certain number of times. HeLa cells were cancer cells taken straight from a cancer tumor and they defied this basic principal of cells division.

The lesson a reader can take away is learning how hard people push to find a cure and the developing progress in cancer knowledge. Everyday people like Farber write informational articles and use advance technology to develop a cure. Although cancer is difficult to cure in any case, the easiest to cure is pediatric. The doctors at Harvard use the developing sophisticated medicine for the childhood cancer to help solve mysteries to other cancers. But because each genetic code and layers of tissues that makeup a human is different, it is impossible to have just one medicine that cures all cancer. Doctors push themselves to find

In most cases, civilians have often taken modern medicine for granted, not acknowledging the fact people just like themselves developed astonishing vaccines and cures. Countless hours of researching, observing, and calculating paved the way to new breakthroughs in science. A simple question could develop into a thirst for knowledge. The desire for discovery of the unknown has led to modern day technology. In the 21st century biography, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot built a logical argument to reveal the potential of scientific studies and the impact new information had on society; thereby she argued for a need to educate the public on the possibilities of new scientific research.

According to the National Institute of Health more than eighty percent of its budget goes to research; funds are granted to over two thousand five hundred universities or research institutions and financially supporting more than three hundred thousand research personnel. In Bethesda Maryland stands the main campus of NIH which houses the largest hospital completely dedicated to clinical research. On this campus are the NIH Intramural Research

“There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as [we] are free to ask what [we] must, free to say what [we] think, free to think what [we] will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.”

Her research will help take cancer treatment to another level. Where patient can receive very personalized treatment that is most effective for them.

Audience Link: There is a large amount of men and women who are diagnosed with breast cancer everyday but they usually don’t know how it forms and ways it can be treated. Breast cancer is a very serious disease that shouldn’t be taken likely. Even if you do not have breast cancer, chances are that you know or will

Cancer. We all know someone who has suffered from it or has passed away because of it. Cancer now affects one in every three people, and is the second highest cause of death in the United States. For decades, the medical community has been on the hunt for a cure for cancer, and have been subjected to intense ridicule from the public because of a lack of progression toward a possible cure. In recent years, many scientists, doctors, researchers, and the general public have come to believe that the cure for cancer is being suppressed because of this lack of progress. Those who say it is suppressed claim that the drugs used to treat cancer actually cause cancer, making a patient sicker and sicker. As a result, the patients are forced to spend

The world of science, as we know it today, is a difficult subject to grasp. So many new ideas are present and these new ideas are not interchangeable. Some parts do work together although as a whole they don’t fully coincide with each other. The three basic ideas that science is now based upon come from Newton, Einstein, and Hawking. I call these ideas/theories “new” based on what I classify the state of the scientific community of today. After looking at what is going on in science, it is clear to me that the scientific world is in a crisis state. According to Kuhn, a crisis state is when science is in the middle of choosing a particular paradigm to work under. For scientists, there is a general theme