Oncology: Becoming A Superheros

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.

Oncology is known as the study of tumors, so an oncologist would be a person that studies and treats all sorts of tumors. There are different types of oncologists within the medical field. There are medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, pediatric oncologists, and hematologist oncologists. A medical oncologist uses targeted therapy which is chemotherapy or other medications to treat cancerous tumors. A surgical oncologist would be the one who removes tumors along with any tissue near the tumor that was affected by it and then the oncologist biopsies the tumor. Radiation oncologists treat cancerous tumors using radiation therapy, gynecologic oncologists treat tumors in the female reproductive

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

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

As the cause of a painful death for six hundred thousand people annually, cancer affects nearly everyone in some way. Oncologist Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D. shares his journey while on, “the front lines of medicine,” and ,”reveals why the war on cancer is winnable- and how we can get there,”(front cover). Most think they know of the hardships cancer patients face, however, DeVita reaches knew depths to further the understanding of the disease to his readers by incorporating vast amounts of pathos and logos. Through over fifty years of extraordinary work in oncology, DeVita shares personal relationships with patients of his who survived and those not as fortunate. Since the fifties, survival rates of this disease lower every year, though

The National Cancer Moonshot is the Obama Administration’s initiative to facilitate the progress of cancer research. Announced during the 2016 State of the Union, the Moonshot is being headed by Vice President Joe Biden with the goal of doubling the rate of scientific advancement over the next five years. At the moment, the progress is largely organizational and informative as the Vice President hopes to connect large swathes of the scientific community. A final Moonshot report is due at the end of the year, but action is expected to increase dramatically this fall.

It is safe to presume that children are our future, wherever they are or wherever they come from. Children from every corner have made an impact for others all over. I decided that I had also wanted to make an impact for those around me in my community and outside of it. I hope to make a change and better the children outside my community so that they, too, can make a change to better those around them.

Once I obtain a higher education during my college studies, I will be bound with responsibilities. I must use my newfound knowledge to my full potential by applying it to my life and those who are surrounding me. I will pursue my duty to society by giving back to my community and those in need because I am apparent of the struggles in a rural area. I am attending the University of Arkansas and majoring in Biology. Once I complete my courses and graduate I will apply for medical school at UAMS in Little Rock, Arkansas then continue my studies to specialize in oncology.

I agree it was smart to take action against her breast cancer quickly before it took her away just as her mother had. I'm glad she wrote about her fight against it and wants to encourage other women to seek help and make their own decision of what they want to do. After reading "Hopeful Glimmers in Long War on Cancer" there's still hope for people with cancer and by now there might be more information about it so there's more choices to make for

State of the art technology has driven the evolution of oncology healthcare services. Cutting edge pharmaceutical research and drug developments in recent years have dramatically changed the way cancer specialists manage and treat cancer. Advanced diagnostic tools and computer assisted surgical devices empower medical providers to detect malignant tumors earlier and remove affected areas with less impact on healthy organs and tissue. Oncology electronic health records (EHR) are a valuable resource for physicians and clinicians as they pursue better treatment options and outcomes for their patients.

From scoring my first lab-coat at age five to winning a science fair contest at age nine to assessing the ecological health of the Bronx River at age sixteen, the sciences have always been my place to shine. In the past few years, I have grown particularly attracted to biomedical science because of its combination of both life science and humanism. My budding interest in pathology and clinical applications of science, as I discovered in my internship with Bronx-Westchester Area Health Education Center, has me to discover oncology. I am interested in becoming a cancer researcher, so I can perform innovative translational research that may assist cancer patients.

I would follow the director’s request because the oncology surgeon was playing hunches with his patients’ wellbeing. The oncology surgeon was prescribing a drug that “he feels speeds up healing time” for patients. The word “feels” sounded like the doctor wasn’t using clinical judgements in caring for his patients. The surgeon wasn’t using evidence-based medicine. Furthermore, this expensive drug had no clinical trials supporting its efficacy thus it would be best to remove the drug from the hospital formulary. By removing this highly specialized blood fraction drug from the pharmacy, it would force the surgeon to use other drugs with proven efficacy to better care for his patients.

Being an oncologist is a very emotionally demanding job. You go through a stressful day everyday, that consists of positive and poor news. Even though there are many bad days, the study of oncology is a successful, needed profession that could provide for a lucrative future.

First, it is important to consider the range of oncologists’ ages. There is a span of about 30-35 years, considering the fact that most oncologists do not finish a fellowship in oncology until late twenties, and according to a study done in 2013, the expected age of retirement among oncologists was 63.4, and those 64 and older said that they planned to retire within 3-4 years (Clemons et al). While 30 years may not seem like a long time, medicine and technology advances at an extremely rapid rate, leading to newer and

Cancer is a serious problem around the world with no real cure. So much money and time are being put into studies and trials to try to make progress towards a cure. As of right now lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States.1 Most patients who are diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer have a survival rate of less than 5%.1 Chemotherapy is the first intervention taken to fight lung cancer. Even though eighty percent of patients are responsive to this first line of chemotherapy treatment, most still relapse, for which there is no approved therapies beyond the second line.1 However, it is now being shown that the immune system is able to create an antitumor response. Recently studies have shown that immunotherapy could become a viable therapeutic approach in fighting lung cancer.