Persuasive Essay : Making A Cure For Cancer

A cancer screening is a test or exam that checks for cancer. Your health care provider will recommend specific cancer screenings based on your age, personal history, and family history of cancer. Work with your health care provider to create a cancer screening schedule that protects your health.

I could imagine myself being a "Soda Jerk" while I worked my way through college to be an accountant, a mechanical engineer, or an architect; all of which are very respectable career choices, and can be done without an over-abundance of technology. I could also see myself in the middle of an episode of "Leave it to Beaver", or "Dobie Gillis", and I suppose that's an accurate portrayal of the way life was "supposed" to be in 1950's suburbia, but only in suburbia. Back to my parents.

“Lets not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts” - Vikrmn, Gura. Nowadays, you hear more and more people getting cancer(13). It is a stress that many people worry about. You worry if one of your parents will get it. You pray your children don't’ get it. It’s a constant worry. You watch television and you can get this horrible monster from microwaving your food, drinking bottled water, carrying your phone in your pocket, using deodorant, coloring your hair and much more. Finding a cure for cancer would be a prayer answered for many.

For years people have been looking for a cure for the devastating disease of cancer. Cancer is the third highest killer in the US with over 2,500,000 victims per year. Oncologists and scientists around the country are researching all forms of cancer in an effort to understand, treat, and ultimately defeat this disease. Already there have been numerous advances in the field, such as chemotherapy and gene therapy. One advance has been the use of a cell process known as apoptosis. By harnessing this normal cell process, scientists hope to have found an effective way to combat cancer.

Some people don’t know when they will be in the hospital next or how many days they have left. During the legacy unit many movements and people along with their legacies have been explored. The Stand Up For Cancer movement started out of a need for a cure for a cure for cancer and is still going today.

Should I be granted the position of academic associate, it would be a crucial step in my journey towards becoming a doctor. I intend to be a part of this program for the one year between college and medical school. I believe that this job would help me best prepare for my future in medical school. The quality of work that I would produce as an academic associate for emergency medicine would not only impress schools during the admissions process, it would also allow me to personally become a more knowledgeable and qualified future doctor. Since I already have accumulated significant experience in helping write abstracts and am currently preparing an honors thesis with the head of the

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

In the 22 seconds that have just passed, someone has died from tuberculosis. A disease that is curable, and to most of us, is considered a disease of the past. However, for people living in 2nd and 3rd world countries, it is very much an epidemic in the present.

Finding a better more efficient cure for cancer is something I would really like to accomplish in my life, being one to have gone through chemotherapy and feeling the side effects it makes me want to thrive that much more. With chemotherapy often does more negative affects than positive ones more doctors need to be exposed to this informational, the patients, and also the families of the patient. Therefore to expose this I will continue to give back to the people that have been affected by chemo and also do the best I can to find another way to cure cancer and other diseases that are cured with chemo.

I want to be able to give people a second chance at life, some haven’t even lived. Children are only a couple years old when they have to battle cancer. If we could cure cancer, it would open up do many doors for so many people. Parents have their children taken too soon, I don’t want to experience that pain they have felt, I don’t want anyone else to feel the pain they have felt seeing their children suffer. I want to solve this problem for my family and my future children. I want to solve this

The videos we watched in class all showed ways that future advancements could make the life a human and the things humans do easier and faster. That is always the main goal, but sometimes the things we try to improve do not always improve the quality life of humans. For example, if in the future, everything is done for us (brushing our teeth, making our food appear, transporting us from place to place, etc.), that would not always be best for our health. Humans would become very lethargic. But in this case, this future cure would be a huge breakthrough for humans.

Cancer, a long and difficult journey assimilated with death. Cancer, in general, is when cells begin to grow out of control and can start anywhere in the body. There are many different forms and types of cancer; scary but true. All forms of cancer is terrifying, but the most terrifying for children is Leukemia. Leukemia is the most common form of cancer in children and teens. It zones in on blood-forming cells, mainly white blood cells, in the bone marrow. This form of cancer accounts for almost one out of three cancers (Leukemia in Children). Why, in my opinion, this is the most intimidating form of cancer is because it takes the lives of the young who had so much potential and barely began to live their own lives. It takes those who are

Why spend money that is really needed for other things? Why live uncomfortably? Why be trapped in this hole called a home that belongs to another person? Why not live free and peacefully? When a person rents he or she usually throws away money that could be used to purchase something that belongs to them. Money is not easy to come by so why pay out hundreds toward something that is not benefit to the person paying it out. There is no good explanation for making a decision like this. The best option in a situation like this is to buy a house. Buying a house is a better option than renting an apartment.

It’s October of your fifth grade year, at the end of the day. You’ve gotten back into the swing of things, your teacher is awesome, and you’re at the top of the elementary school food chain. You’re about to walk outside. The weather is beautiful; the trees are still mostly green with a few ambitious leaves already changing color. The sky is blue and the sun is shining in the way it only does during fall. You’re going to remember how it felt to walk across the parking lot on that day for a long time. You’re happy, like you normally are when you leave school, and you get in the car. That’s when Mom tells you your little brother has cancer.

As we busily bustle around our lives, a prevalent problem surfaces, disease. The mournful realization when assessing our situation, is that sick people are polluting the world. Diseases spread like wildfire, leaving a wake of destruction in their path. Our inability to defeat disease highlights the problem, and I have the solution...