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Persuasive speech regarding Childhood Cancer Awareness
Specific Purpose: To convince my audience that childhood cancer is much more common than widely believed, and that action must be taken to increase awareness and funding for research
Introduction
I. Some of what I share today might upset you - it should.
II. You might get angry; I hope you do. A. Anger spurs action, and we cannot continue to sit idly by while a monster murders our children, shrouded in secrecy. (IMAGE – serial)
III. Childhood cancer kills 7 children every single day in the United States alone, as documented by the American Childhood Cancer Organization. (“Childhood”) A. That is the same mortality rate as if there were two tragedies
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I know, everyone’s always telling you to contact your representatives about gun control or genetically modified food or gas prices, but to potentially save 2500 children a year, I think we can all agree a phone call, letter or email is worth the time.
X. Next, you can contribute to St. Jude or one of the other nonprofit hospitals conducting groundbreaking research and clinical trials. A. Six years ago when my daughter was diagnosed,chemotherapy wasn’t believed to be effective on her type of cancer, meaning if it ever came back there was nothing we could do. B. Thanks to the work done at St. Jude, we have since learned that chemo DOES work about 50 to 70 percent of the time on her cancer. C. If it weren’t for people just like you who give maybe only $20 a month, I would be watching helplessly as the cancer raged through my baby’s body a second time, rather than being able to do something proactive to combat it.
XI. Finally, to get active for childhood cancer, I suggest you, well, GET ACTIVE!! A. This year will mark the second annual Nashville CureSearch walk for Childhood Cancer Research. B. CureSearch is the program by Children’s Oncology Group which is responsible for conducting clinical trials and research and putting it into practice as new and better treatment protocols for children fighting all types of
St. Jude Children’s hospital was established in February of 1962 with the “sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases” (StJude.org). They have raised survival of childhood cancer from 20% to 80% since their opening through their research (Cancer.org). Even with an average of 7,800 patients a year and a 1.8 million daily operating cost, parents never pay anything for their child’s stay (StJude.org). The survival rate has raised and children are able to stay at no cost due to donations. Most of these donations come from people around the world that see St. Jude’s effective and strong advertisements. I will be analyzing three rhetoric’s ethos, logos, and pathos the hospital used to raise funds and make it effective.
Purpose: To inform my audience that there are kids out there that need our help and to have the audience persuade to donating.
C. Main Point 3: Depending on the stage of cancer, treatments can vary. I will be telling you a few important facts provided by NationalBreastCancer.org to know going into treatments and also the different types.
When it comes to cancer, so much of the world’s knowledge is based on statistics. For example, each day forty-six children, or more than two full classrooms of kids, are diagnosed with cancer and one out of every three hundred thirty people will develop cancer before the age of twenty. The simplest and most important of these statistics is this, “Cancer is the number one cause of death by disease in children.” Pediatric cancer takes the lives of more people than the number of children who die from asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and pediatric AIDS combined! About one thousand three hundred and eighty children are expected to die from cancer this year alone. Although the cure rate of children with cancer is steadily increasing for most childhood cancers over the past five years, the number of children who will die is overwhelming and unacceptable.
1. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is one of the premier pediatric cancer research centers in the world.
Two types of primary roles for healthcare workers is one prevention and the second one being the need to be aware of the cardinal symptoms of cancer in children. Prevention begins with teaching and educating the parents and children about the different hazard of known carcinogens, such as cigarette smoking and the effects of it and being exposed to sunlight in an excessive manner. Children that have light colored eyes, skin tone(fair-skinned) and hair are at a higher risk for skin cancer. Children that have freckles are known to get sunburn quicker than others. All children should avoid excessive sun exposure. Various testing
Specific Purpose: To convince the audience that childhood cancer is more common than believed, and that action should be taken to increase awareness and funding for research.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the number one worldwide organization for children's cancer and other serious childhood diseases. “St. Jude has helped improve the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20 to 80 percent”(Young). With your help the families of the children with illnesses pay absolutely nothing throughout their time and stay at St. Jude, making their child's condition and health their only and number one priority (About St. Jude’s Research Hospital). The amount of money that is donated to this hospital benefits not only the patients there, but convalescent’s all around the globe. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is an organization in which you should donate your money because all of the money goes into paying for the patients’ care and stay, the breakthroughs that they make are shared so doctors everywhere can help more children, and they have improved the survival rate of children’s cancer.
With this is a copy of my justification report on the subject of funding and support of research in pediatric cancer and assisting poor parents of children suffering from cancer. This statement is a review of my findings from the most recent year of working in X Cancer Specialty Center, and a separate research that other researchers have conducted outside the center. This paper will be useful in justifying the funding of extensive research in pediatric cancer, and the necessity to assist parents of the cancer patients to meet medical costs. I have completed this report at no cost to the organization, and I carried out and completed this research during off hours.
I. Open with Impact: About 15,270 children ages 19 or under will be diagnosed with cancer this year. (National Cancer Institute, 2017)
Oncology is the study and treatment of cancer. Cancer is a disease that develops when normal cells in certain parts of the body start to grow abnormally and continuously. It has been a plague on human life for a while; in fact, the earliest evidence of the disease was found in ancient Egyptian manuscripts dating back to 1600 BC. It is currently the most diagnosed disease in the world. Pediatric Oncology is a subspecialty of the practice that focuses on the treatment of cancer in children. In earlier days, because information on the disease was limited, treatment for children was almost inexistent. However, in the 1940s a doctor named Sidney Farber made a milestone in the treatment of these children by administering
Every year thousands of children, in the United States alone, are diagnosed with some form of cancer and more cases are occurring each year. When thinking about cancer we often associate it with adult cancers. Throughout the year there are certain days and months dedicated to supporting awareness of specific types of cancers that mainly occur in adults. Although there is some focus on childhood cancer, it does not get as much attention as with adult cancer, because of this there is also less focus on funding childhood cancer research. With a rise of pediatric cancer diagnoses, researchers should take advantage of the modern day technology available and focus some of the attention away from adult cancers and begin to put efforts into finding
About 10,730 children in the United States under the age of 15 were diagnosed with cancer in 2009 (American
As established in the National Cancer Institute, “Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide for children and adolescents in America, accounting for more than 91,250 children that lose their lives to this disease” (National Cancer Institute). Cancer is not considered a terminal illness, but more of a chronic illness because of the intense treatment that the individual has to endure. As a result of this treatment the chances of survival for children suffering from pediatric cancer has increased around 80 percent. The increment in the survival rate has made it possible for many parents to not have to go through the acceptance that they are about to lose their child to a terminal illness, but have coping strategies that will make them adapt to the fear of the reoccurrence of that illness. This illness has a great impact on the patient as well as the family because not only do they have to adapt to this illness physically, but also mentally. Research has shown that there are both short term and long term effects that come into effect when the child is both in treatment and also years after the treatment. The type of cancers that these adolescents have to endure range from leukemia, brain tumors and other cancerous tumors that have appeared in recent medical studies. These tumors can either be benignant, an acute case that is non-cancerous or malignant, a cancerous case that will need intense treatment over an extended period of time.While many would say there is more of a
Raising awareness is a step in the right direction to escalating advocacy and support for childhood cancer research (acco.org 1). One nationwide project that brings in the most financial aid for visitors and patients is St. Jude’s Children's Research Hospital (StJude.org 1). The mission of St. Jude is "to advance cures and the means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment" (StJude.org 1). That being said, the support "helps ensure that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will continue its lifesaving mission of finding cures and saving children” (StJudes.org 1). Few people realize the dire situation patients and families are in when they are deciding to not