My Research Story: Cancer And Healthy Cells

She went through eighteen months of radiation and chemotherapy and she is currently under five years of drug treatment. It has been the hardest time of my life. I was diligent in seeking out information about her disease. I remember using the internet to research scientific articles about cancer causes and treatments. In my search to understand what was happening to my mother, I found my passion. I realized that my definitive objective is to study breast cancer further through research.

If you or someone you love has cancer, the fear and confusion that follows can be overwhelming so understanding the basics of the disease can help. To understand the effect of these abnormal cells it helps to look first at how healthy cells function. Each of us are made up of

therapy is when chemicals are used to aid in healing the cancer. Radiation is another treatment

They may be applied to bloodstream or directly to a cancer site. Chemotherapy typically refers to the destruction of cancer cells, however some may include antibiotics or other medications to cure an illness or infection. Often, chemo is used alongside other treatments. Physical activity is important and it’s been found that patients who regularly exercise after chemotherapy treatment have a much lower risk of cancer recurrence. Chemotherapy generally has 5 goals; total remission, combination therapy, delay/prevent reoccurrence, slow down cancer progression and relieve cancer symptoms. The objective is to prevent cell division using cytotoxic drugs, to target cancer cells food source, enzymes and hormones that they need in order to grow, and to stop the growth of new blood vessels that supply the tumor. Patients can either receive monotherapy where they’re just given one drug, or combination where the patient receives more than one drug. These courses of chemo can be just a one day treatment or last for a few weeks, it depends on the type and stage of the cancer basically how advanced it

No one thinks that it will happen to them. No one thinks that one day it might be them walking into the doctor’s office, only to hear those three horrifying words – “You have cancer.” To say that cancer changed my life is an enormous understatement. Cancer took me on an insane roller coaster for two years.. turning, twisting, jerking. I never thought it would happen to me. I heard those three lethal words, but they were not spoken to me. My father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December of 2014.

The normal process of cell division is altered in cancerous cells typically by mutations in the genes involved in the regulation of cellular division. The number of mutations normally will begin to spread because when the genes that make DNA repairing proteins become mutated, this causes the DNA that they would be repairing to become mutated as well. Some changes allow the damaged cells to divide more quickly than normal and to invade other tissues. The cancers cells can divide even where there are signals and normal cells meant to prevent the cell growth.

As children we are always asked what we want to be when we grow up. We are taught to dream and imagine the unthinkable. If one is fortunate, one will have supporting parents that say “you can do anything you set your mind to.” My response to anyone that asked what I was going to be when I grow up was I am going to be a pediatrician. Luckily, I can say that I have made it to being a registered nurse.

Chemotherapy is the administration of chemicals into the body in an attempt to cure/lessen the severity of cancer in living organisms. Chemotherapy is always given with a curative intent, but that cannot always be promised to the patient, so sometimes it is given to relieve symptoms that the patients are experiencing or to improve their overall quality of life.1 While chemotherapy is used as an agent to try to rid individuals of their cancer, it is essentially slowly killing them. The chemicals used for the treatment are toxic to the human body and while they are giving them in small amounts, those small amounts accumulate over time to large amounts in the body. The body is affected by the treatment in various different ways and every body

Chemotherapy is most recognizable from its uses in the medical to help people who sadly have cancer. To begin, chemotherapy has saved people lives and defiantly given dejected cancer patients some confidence in their fight. There are many different forms of chemotherapy to treat a wide arrange of patients. They might be different but these horrific chemicals that are being consumed have one goal. These chemicals simply have the goal of entering the body to kill healthy or mutated cells. This primarily where the harsh side effects come into play as the chemicals will kill anything in its path working cell or mutated cell it has no agenda. Chemicals can be entered into your body in a number of different ways such as orally, injections and even creams. Many doctors make specific plans or certain types of cancer if a certain strategy has worked on an earlier patient.

Chemotherapy is a drug that targets cells that are in the process of forming a new cell in your body. Since cancer cells develop more quickly than regular cells they are a good target for the chemo drug and helps the doctor predict which drugs may work together. The reason chemo therapy has so many side effects such as nausea, hair loss, fatigue etc. is because the drugs can’t tell the difference between regular healthy cells and cancer cells causing the regular cells to also be

first of all, I will start with this sentence (Cancer is a scary word almost everyone knows someone who got very sick or died from cancer). And then I will say what is cancer? Cancer is actually a group of many related diseases that all have to do with cells. Cells are the very small units that make up all living things, including the human body. There are billions of cells in each person's body. Cancer happens when cells that are not normal grow and spread very fast. Normal body cells grow and then they stop growing, over time they also die. But the cancer cells just continue to grow out of control and don't die when they're supposed to.

Cancer has been a part of my life since I was younger. My grandma and aunt were diagnosed and luckily, they both won their battles. Unfortunately, not everyone is as lucky. My best friend’s mother was diagnosed when she was extremely young and she did not even know what the word cancer meant. She had no idea one word could cause someone

When I was just 8 years old I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian germ cell cancer. At a very young age I had been placed in a whole new world of sadness and loss. I am currently 14 and have been cancer free for 6 years but I feel the pain every day. I lost way too many friends from cancer to count and every year I loose more. There was one friend in particular that I don’t go a day without thinking about. He was diagnosed at age 4. My mom met his family through Facebook. She is always is doing something for someone and this little guy had just been diagnosed with cancer, so we went up to the hospital to visit him and his family. There was an instant click between us and from that point on I loved him like he was my own brother.

1. )Cancer is an illness that’s been around for decades. Cancer starts in the cells, and cancer types is classified by the area in which these cancer cells develop in ( lymph, skin, thyroid and so on) . There are treatments that get rid of cancer (though chances you’ll have it again are high). or slow it down but it’s a process with many side effects. People who suffer from cancer are not just the patient but also the people around them. Cancer has claimed many lives, but there have also been survivors. Cancer not only changes a person's life and their views as well. There are different type of events that people do to raise cancer awareness and to get donations to pay for treatments needed for the patient. Not all cancers are the same they

Critics often state that chemotherapy does not cure cancer. The reality is that cancer is unique to each person and cancer cells can become resistant to chemo. Some tumors can remain dormant in a person’s body for a period of time and attack the body once again creating a recurrence of the tumors. The tumors which can be found during a recurrence tend to develop a kind of immunity to treatments used previously. For example, if the cancer comes back within a year or 2 of chemo treatment, it may be resistant to the type of chemo used previously and another drug may need to be considered as an alternative. Chemo treatments are made up of multiple chemical combinations and certain treatments react better to different types of cancer than others.