Persuasive Essay : The Story Of Living With Stage Four Cancer

Everyone hears the word “Cancer” and automatically thinks death? Imagine being told you have cancer a month before Christmas and having to start chemotherapy right away. That was me at age 16 barely a junior in High School, they say high school is supposed to be a great experience. And it was at the beginning which was my freshman and sophomore year. I was that girl athlete with lots of friends who went day by day not caring about my health I would eat lots of junk food and stay up late at night. I come from a Hispanic family single parent my mom and 4 siblings 3 girls and one boy. Two had already gotten married and there was only 3 left at home including me. My mom would work out in the fields so sometimes she 'd come home late, therefore

Tis means that the cancer cells are only growing in the most superficial layer of tissue, without growing into deeper tissues. This is also known as in situ cancer or pre-cancer.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world. Seven point six million people die each year from cancer and four million people die prematurely. People who do have cancer die at a very young age, they die at the age of 30-69. Many people are infected with all sorts of different types of cancer like lung cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, liver cancer and even more. You dont really know if you have cancer or not. If people are worried they have cancer then they tell their doctor about it. know one else can tell that you have cancer besides yourself and only you can notice the strange things that’s happening. When cancer starts to grow it pushes on nerves and nearby organs. By the cancer pushing on those it can cause signs and symptoms.

“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.

Surgery. Radiation. Chemotherapy. Repeat. The treatments that are supposed to cure you bring you closer to the brink of death than you have ever been before. At the final stages, many people pray for death to relieve their suffering. This high tech form of torture should not be how it ends anyone. I watched my 79-year-old grandmother endure these treatments over the course of six months as she slowly slipped into the abyss that is death. By the end, she was no longer the same grandmother that would wake up early whenever we slept over to make us milkshakes and pancakes for breakfast, no longer the same grandmother that seemed to know everything there was to know. This is what people go through every day. Individuals, families, loved ones, they

How would one finish one’s life if he or she were only given six months to live? Brittany Maynard and Kara Tippetts answered this question in two very different ways. Both were too young to face death, but they could not escape their realities. Plagued by terminal cancer, they would suffer in a considerable amount of pain, ultimately ending in death. Maynard tried to lighten her experience by ending her life with medication to escape the full reality. News broadcasts and magazines highly publicized Maynard’s decision. On the other hand, Tippetts chose to live until her life naturally ended. However, her story was documented on the radio; in a book, The Hardest Peace; and her blog, “Mundane Faithfulness.” Although Maynard and Tippetts both suffered terminal cancer, they dealt with their circumstances, convictions, and choices differently.

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 day we found out that my grandma was battling cancer for the second time, my parents didn't want me to visit him in the condition that he was in. but finally I told them that I just need to see my grandpa and they were right, I didn't want to see him like that, they had him strapped to a hospital bed, and wouldn't let him up. You could tell my grandpa didn't want to be in there he couldn't even speak but by the way he was grabbing us in the sense of “let me leave”. I just knew this was bad. S few weeks later they sent him to a hospital home, and we went to go visit him he was doing GREAT he was walking talking eyes open and watching the Sunday night football like he usually did, cowboys were his favorite team. I was so happy for him and me that I wasn't going to lose him and I knew in my heart that he was getting better.

Cancer has affected the lives of each and every one of us alive today. Many people have know someone with cancer, yet even those who haven't have been bombarded with constant reminders of its terrible threat. Although cancer is often referred to as a single condition, it actually consists of more than 100 different diseases, all characterized by the uncontrolled growth, reproduction, and spread of abnormal body cells. All of these diseases are individually unique, yet the basic processes that produce cancers are very similar (Ruddon, 1995). The human body consists of over 30 trillion cells, living in a complex, interdependent harmony. They regulate each other's proliferation; normal cells reproduce

Cancer is the one of those diseases which has high mortality rates in Pakistan. Most of these cases are diagnosed in advanced stages. Chemotherapy is one of the treatment components of cancer patients and electrolyte abnormalities are one of its common side effect. Electrolyte abnormalities are frequent and complicating element of cancer, these abnormalities may be due to underlying malignancy, a consequence of disease response or side effect of therapeutic agents, these side effects can be hazardous and fatal in some cases. This review presents the electrolyte abnormalities that can occur with the use of anticancer drugs. We have retrospectively reviewed the records of last 06 months of our admitted patients who were either admitted for longer regimes of chemotherapy or for the management of post chemotherapy side effects. In this review we have included total 110 patients out of which Breast, lung and colorectal cancers are leading malignancies followed by

There are over 300 different kinds of cancer in the world. That’s a pretty scary number. If you don’t know anyone close to you or around you having cancer, you will. If you do know a family member who has cancer, your risks just increased.

In October women fight, they celebrate and they mourn those who have fought Breast Cancer. October is the month dedicated to raising awareness of the disease and finding ways to educate the public, while creating funds to further the research of the Breast Cancer, but most of all it's about supporting those fighting everyday.

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.

Each year there are about one million three hundred seventy thousand deaths worldwide from lung cancer. Lung cancer is a particular type of cancer that is more deadly and common from other types of cancer. Lung cancer for most people can be avoided because cigarette smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer. Of course, there are other ways that increase the chance of lung cancer that can’t be avoided, like if it runs in the family. There are two different types of lung cancer small cell lung cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer. In order to determine what the specific type is it needs to be looked at under a microscope as the two types have different treatments. There are many symptoms that may be associated with lung cancer, not all are present in the chest, some symptoms occur in different regions of the body. Lung cancer had a variety of treatment options. The patient's doctor will decide what treatment is best for them depending on their type of cancer and what stage of cancer they have. In the novel The Longest Ride Ira Levinson, a ninety-one-year-old man had been battling lung cancer for the past few months. Sadly his cancer did not get found early enough, so his last few years turned into only a few more weeks.

You feel a lump in your breast, you see your breast is swollen, and it hurts, so you go to the doctor. The doctor is lagging and shaking his head while he's looking at the x-rays. He finally comes to tell you that you occur to have Breast Cancer. Your heart drops when you hear his words, you're scared and don’t know what to do. I decided that I wanted to research Breast Cancer because I know some people that suffered from it. Many people each year suffer from it and I wanted to learn why. SO many people die from Breast Cancer. I wanted to see if maybe when I get older would be in the same situation. While I was researching my topic, the main questions I was asking myself was, “What is Breast Cancer and What causes Breast Cancer.” This leads me to my driving question, What can our society do to solve Breast Cancer. In conclusion, for all my research, i’ve realized that you cannot stop Breast Cancer from occurring, for now. There are surgeries you can have to get rid of it. Breast Cancer will most likely occur in me because it happens in most women, but I don’t need to worry about that now because i’m 11.