Radiotherapy Personal Statement

I don't like the thought of people going through hard times alone. I always knew that I wanted a profession that involved caring for people, especially after my Father was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in January 2012, sadly my Father passed away in November 2014, but radiotherapy and chemotherapy improved his lifespan and quality of life, it provided a strength and hope that we as a family needed at the time of his diagnosis and its benefits overrode its side effects. I want to improve people's lives and help make a difference.

Each of these learning theories can be applied to help us form strategies to change or adapt behavior. Operant conditioning can be used to try and influence behaviors. For example, teaching someone to clean a window by positively reinforcing them when they do it correctly and punishing them when they do not. Classical conditioning can also be applied quite simply. For instance, you can pair pain with cows to teach someone to always fear cows. Observational learning is also much of the same thing. If you want someone to learn a new behavior or change a previous one, all you have to is have them mimic yours. They will

What do cancer, radiation, and technology have in common? The links between the three are quite extraordinary. Cancer is a disease that accounts for 13% of all deaths in the world (Delfino and Day 1). The disease has an impact on patients, friends and their love ones. According to WebMD, radiation is energy that travels in the form of waves through radiation therapy. Through radiation therapy, radiation is used to stop, slow or cure the growth of cancer. With technology, radiologists can treat cancer patients through radiation and special computerized imaging (WebMD).

When studying behaviourism, the Key concepts found are the stimulus and response also known as the (S-R) equation. This involves classical and operant conditioning. These stimuli’s allow the greatest possibility to manipulate independent variables in order to study the dependent variable. The measurable change in environment means that any event or situation may have some subsequent changes in behaviour to reinforce learning.

I serve as an Ambassador for the Alamo Academies and speak at the New Student Orientation to share with them the bountiful knowledge and opportunities the program gives us with no cost. My efforts in the program and outstanding performance in my summer internship allowed me to achieve an Honorable Mention from the National Center for Women in Information Technology: Aspirations in Computing, this year. Every day I encourage women to join the STEM field because that is the ticket to the future, I avidly look forward to increasing the representation of women and minorities in the male-dominated IT

I have always had a passionate interest in technology, from the very first time I was introduced to a rapidly-growing phenomenon called coding. It both fascinated and perplexed me; numbers and letters, pixels on a shiny screen, amalgamating together to produce something awe-inspiring. Therefore, it was perhaps to be expected that I would sign up to be a member of my local Girls Who Code club in the beginning of my eighth grade year.

Radiation therapy is a type of treatment modality that administers radiation to patients with cancer. This form of treatment has many components that contribute toward ensuring the malignant tissue within the body is being adequately treated. One of the major components in radiation therapy is the use of bolus. Bolus is a material placed on the skin to help bring the radiation dose higher to the skin surface within the patient (Khan 2012). Since there are no research studies in the radiation oncology field which compare alternative bolus materials in providing maximum dose build-up, the purpose of this study is to close this informational gap by comparing the following types of bolus: Superflab, neon-green Play-Doh, orange Play-Doh, and uncooked rice.

It was about 5 years ago that I first realized I wanted to become a doctor .We were invited over for lunch at my father’s colleague’s house. When we finished eating we got to meet his daughter, she was very beautiful and about 3 years my senior. She wore a beanie at home and upon realizing why she had worn it my heart just melted. It was at this time we came to know she had a brain tumor diagnosed at an advanced stage.

Radiation therapy plays a very important role in some peoples lives. It mostly applies to people who have cancer. Radiation therapy is used to not necessarily cure cancer but to eliminate tumors, which may in fact cure some people of their cancer. This could be a life changing experience for many people. There are many opportunities for a person pursuing a career in radiology and more specifically radiation therapy or oncology. Radiation therapy is a difficult yet fulfilling field that has many different aspects to it.

During my seventh grade year, I joined computer club. This club was what I looked forward to at the end of each week. I learned how to make websites, code games, and a long list of other computer related skills. I was dedicated to this club, not only because I found everything we were doing very interesting, but I also adored this time because I used the awesome lab computers. I was even more happy when I was asked to help out the high school of tech guys at my school. Three years of helping students and teaching my teachers later, it was time for the last of my tech mentors to graduate, and we would be left in charge. It was up to the handful of us to run this school and make sure the tech has no

eCybermission was a program that I learned about at school. I was really interested in doing it, so I formed a team. Our team built and programed a robot that could sort mail. With our invention, mail delivery could be done faster and more accurately. We did fantastic in the competition. I really had fun working with people who have the same interest as

Each treatment session will take about 10-30 minutes and you won’t usually need to stay in hospital.

The aim of cancer treatment is to eradicate and destroy the cancer cell from the body without any negative effect to the patient (Sudhakar, 2009). Nowadays, the most conventional treatment for this cancer disease is surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Surgery basically is a process to remove the cancer cell from the body. This treatment often required chemotherapy and radiotherapy as complement to ensure the complete removal of cancer cell.

One of the ways to treat the censors is by using high energy radiation, which will help to kill cancer cells and minimize the size of the tumor. It is focused on a particular area so it is a local treatment. Radiation therapy can be affected alone or with other treatment method such as chemotherapy and surgery. X-ray, gamma rays, electron, and proton are using by radiation therapy which will be delivered radiation beam to the tumor by using one of the two methods: external beam and internal radiation therapy (brachytherapy).

In 2007, it is predicted that almost 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States (Pickle et al., 2007). More than half of these cancer patients will undergo the use of radiation as a means for treating cancer at some point during the course of their disease (Perez and Brady, 1998). Cancer, a disease caused by an uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells, affects millions of people around the world. Radiotherapy is one of the well known various methods used to treat cancer, where high powered rays are aimed directly at the tumor from the outside of the body as external radiation or an instrument is surgically placed inside the body producing a result of internal radiation. Radiation is delivered to the cancerous regions of the body to damage and destroy the cells in that area, terminating the rapid growth and division of the cells. Radiation therapy has been used by medicine as a treatment for cancer from the beginning of the twentieth century, with its earliest beginnings coming from the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen. With the advancements in physics and computer programming, radiation had greatly evolved towards the end of the twentieth century and made the radiation treatment more effective. Radiation therapy is a curative treatment approach for cancer because it is successful in killing cancerous tumor cells and stop them from regenerating.