Teen Cancer In John Green's The Fault In Our Stars

Cancer is a word that no one wants to hear or think about, however there are many people

People tend to usually tremble when hearing the unpleasant word “Cancer”. Imagine being the one diagnosed with this horrible illness. More and more people in today’s society are struck with certain health issues such as diabetes, obesity, heart diseases and many more. Cancer is the at the top of this horrible chain of problems. Based on my experiences, someone that is diagnosed with cancer, does not realize how life can change so rapidly for them. Their whole lifestyle changes and they have a different outlook on life. Not until a person experiences a family member going through cancer, is he/she able to understand how important spending time with family really is.

Skeptical about the hype around The Fault in Our Stars? Well I was too. Partially because these coming-of-age novels always manage to poke fun at my comparably uneventful and boy-less life. However this book spread like wildfire, engulfing victim after victim till even the cynical book readers I knew were infected. It imprisoned them, hands cuffed to this book till the turning of pages blurred before my eyes. Soon I became hostage by this book as well. To my surprise, John Green creates a cleverly crafted story that explores the life changing, funny, and tragic effects of being alive and in love.

They feel that when people now of their illness they will be treated differently. In the article “After Diagnosis, Some Keep their Cancer a Secret” Melanie Young a breast cancer survivor says, “I didn’t want my clients to perceive me as incapacitated and jump ship” (2). Not all people react the same way some might feel sorry for the person that is going through the difficult time. Others might distance away because they do not know how to approach the situation. Skloot states “After each treatment, Henrietta would change back into her clotes and walk the few blocks to margaret’s house, where she’d wait for Day to pick her up around midnight” (Skloot 47). While Henrietta was with Margaret they would interact, but never say anything about her illness or talk about the symptoms that would come as a result of her treatment. Talking about cancer is not an easy topic because everyone has different opinions when it comes to whether to share the news with their friends and family

Studies indicate that over the last decade, the number of people suffering from cancer has increasingly gone higher. Cancer is a disease that brings fear upon its victims, especially when its diagnosis is made late. Needless to say, many people die from the fear rather than the disease itself. Medical practitioners do not term cancer as a disease but as a lifestyle condition. People may not be able to completely cure the cancer (depending on the type or stage of cancer) but they may change their perception or lifestyle, and thus be able to reduce the anticipated results.

Cancer is usually a terrifying word. Those who have never received a diagnosis of cancer, likely cannot fathom the anxiety such an event produces. Even forms of cancer that are highly treatable often bring about significant and immediate life changes for patients. Hopefully, the ideas from this article can help to demystify cancer, and make it somewhat easier to cope with the disease and its effects.

According to the American Cancer Society in 2014 there is an estimated of 585,720 cancer deaths in the United States. Remaining in the second place of the most common cause of death in the country. Being diagnosed with terminal cancer changed any person life. The patient start suffering all kind of physical and psychological problems, related to the imminent death. During this period the doctor, the patient, and the family form an indispensable bond in order to help the terminal ill person to cope with the symptoms and complications the best possible way. However, this bond is usually broken in cases where one of the subjects decide to withhold information from another.

To begin with, I will look at what cancer is. I would like to look at cancer as a disease and the social determinants of this perspective. I would then like to investigate cancer as an illness and look at the narrative of this experience including its social determinants. Finally, I will address the differences and similarities between the two.

If people could just understand – really understand –what goes on in the mind of someone who has received a cancer diagnosis, things would be different. Alas, this level of understanding seems to be ever-elusive. What they do not realise is that what they are seeing on the outside does not always marry up with what's happening on the inside. It is possible that people can not relate to it until it happens to them. I have stage 4 advanced metastatic prostate cancer, and many continue to tell me that I look great. After that I don’t hear from them, because they see me as the same person before the illness. Inside, however, I am different, because I still have the cancer illness. How many times have I heard "I don’t know if I could do it?" Frankly,

The impact of cancer diagnosis is conversion many literatures suggest that patients are facing a wide range of difficulties in disclosing a cancer diagnosis with their family members or friends. Others suggest that disclosing and sharing information with significant ones has been linked to better psychological well-being and quality of life, greater levels of personal growth, and better social relationships. (Munro, Scott, King, & Grunfeld, 2015)

The Fault in our Stars is a book that focuses on young love and coping with the undeniable death of those around you. The main character, Hazel Grace, is a 16-year-old girl with Thyroid cancer. She is analytical, and therefore seeks to logically solve each issue that arises. But she wishes to do so in a way that keeps her off the radar.

Everyday children are diagnosed to cancer, and families are learning how to support their child. These difficulties may be unknown to a new reader. By reading Green's novel, a reader can take away the struggle of traveling with cancer and the support that a patient will always have. Additionally, readers can understand cancer patients are prone to an optimistic outlook in the world. As a reader of The Fault in Our Stars is easy to connect personal history too and similar events like the dysfunctions of cancer.Any reader can take away great lessons and the disadvantages to having serious medical

In developing the definition of the problem, I used my own personal perspective, values, and experiences. As a child, I was diagnosed with a form of leukemia. I grew up in southwest Nebraska and my mother and I were forced to drive five hours to treatment in Omaha, leaving at home my dad and brother. Therefore, I have my own personal perspective of what a cancer diagnosis does to a family. Other perspectives used include holistic, systems, and person in environment. Attention is put on the patient’s illness and other emotional and familial problems are overlooked. However, when the

Dealing with growing up can be hard enough as it is, but having to cope with facing death and the pain it creates, makes life that much harder. The novel “The Fault in Our Stars” written by John Green is about various teenagers that have cancer and learn to seek relief from their pain that is caused by a terminal illness. The novel doesn’t proclaim outright that one particular method of dealing with pain is the correct way. However, it clearly indicates that there are some methods that are healthier than others. Some of these methods are; being honest and direct through reading novels, being fearful and through the help of support groups.

The Fault in Our Stars is a book about teenagers who were diagnosed with cancer. The main character of the book was a girl who had thyroid cancer and her name is Hazel Grace. She fell in love with Augustus Waters who lost his legs due to cancer. They met each other at a cancer support group and both of them had passion for books. Hazel wanted to meet Peter Van Houten the author of the "An Imperial Affliction". Then Augustus was able to get an invitation for both of