Kiley Palmer
Oral Communications 6
10/8/2015
Title: Cancer in Teens
Specific Speech Purpose: To inform the audience about the unique characteristics and effects of cancer in teens.
INTRODUCTION:
When I was fourteen, two weeks into my freshman year of high school, I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. (Attention) As I went through my journey through chemo and radiation, I continued to learn more and more about the cancer that had taken over my body. Then I started making friends there at the hospital. They had different cancers, so I learned as much as I could so that I could try to understand how their journey would be like mine, and how it would be different. I began to be closer to my friends at the hospital than I was
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a. Eight teens who have survived their fight with cancer
b. Three teens fighting cancer currently
c. Four teens who have passed away within the past two years because of cancer.
2. Statistics on estimated new cases for 2014 (statistics)
a. Children ages 0-14 years old
(1.) 10,450 new cases (statistics)
(2.) An average of 700 new cases of cancer for each age in this group.
b. Teens ages 15-19 years old
(1.) 5,330 new cases (statistics)
(2.) An average of 1,100 new cases of cancer for each age in this group.
c. Compare the average number of children per age and the average number of teens per age.
(1.) Four hundred more teens of one age are diagnosed each year than children of one age. (comparison)
(2.) That is 53% more (comparison)
B. Cancer in teens is different from cancer in others.
1. The 5-year survival rate is different for teens than it is for children with the same cancer.
a. Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia have a 91% chance of surviving 5 years after being diagnosed (Statistic)
b. Teens with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia have a 78% chance of surviving 5 years after being diagnosed (Statistic)
c. Teens are 13% less likely to survive than children with the same disease. (Comparison)
2. Teens are more likely to be diagnosed with certain types of cancer than children or adults over the 40.
a. Hodgkin Lymphoma (Example)
b. Melanoma (Example)
c. Sarcoma (Example)
TRANSITION:
Now that we know some of the characteristics of cancer in
Reality: "Between the ages of 15 and 45, close to 90% of diagnosed patients are women
‘“Cancer is like a home invasion, once it has invaded your life you will never feel safe again”’ (Adal yn's... 6). Cancer wipes out what a family knew before cancer; it wipes out their version of normal and replaces it with something that can not be controlled. When childhood cancer takes a hold of the family and never lets go. While going through cancer, it is important that a family sticks together and builds each other up through this difficult time. Childhood cancer affects everyone it comes in contact with, but it mainly affects the family, including the child suffering from cancer, as well as the parents or caregiver and siblings.
1. Most cancers incidence peak among children occurs during the first year of life. Some of the most well-known nationwide childhood cancers are leukemia, brain cancer, and other central nervous system cancers. The side effects of treatment, which range from heart disease to brain
As stated by curesearch.org this does not take into consideration the many children who succumb to their cancers after more than 5 years, nor does it account for those struggling with life-threatening effects of their cancer treatment, even including secondary
According to the American Cancer Society, there are sixteen major types of childhood cancers and over 100 subtypes. Leukemia and Lymphoma cancer are the most common cancers that children get at a young age. Everyday forty-six kids are diagnose with childhood cancer and seven children die every day. Childhood cancer kills more kids than Cystic Fibrosis, AIDS, and asthma combined! The worst part about childhood cancer is that the treatment side affects can last a lifetime for these kids. People do not understand that childhood cancer only gets a small percentage of the budget for all cancers. National Cancer Institute budget is around $4.9 billion and only 4% of that sum goes towards childhood cancer.
Dana Farber wrote about the Harvard Cancer Center, an NCI-designated comprehensive Pediatric cancer center to build upon the collective talent and resources of the Harvard cancer research community. She talks about her experiences working with childhood cancer. Ferber is aimed at providing a better understanding of adolescent health issues and developing new interventions to improve the health for adolescents. She is also initiating and studying new methods of delivering healthcare to at-risk youth and designing new curriculum for teaching adolescent health to health care providers.
* 31% of all male deaths under the age of 75 (48,000) are caused by cancer.
A young boy named Lendon Riddle had been diagnosed with leukemia when he was just 2 years old. He was told by his doctors that he had 8-10% chances to survive past the first 48 hours of chemo and radiation.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is driving the way the world comprehends, treats and annihilations adolescence tumor and other life-undermining illnesses. St. Jude has the world's best survival rates for probably the most forceful youth malignancies, and medicines designed at St. Jude have helped push the general adolescence tumor survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since we opened over 50 years prior. St. Jude is attempting to drive the general survival rate for youth disease to 90 percent in the following decade. St. Jude openly shares the achievements we make, and each youngster spared at St. Jude means specialists and researchers worldwide can utilize that information to spare thousands more youngsters. Families never get a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, lodging or nourishment – on the grounds that the only thing the families need to do is to stress over is helping
About 10,730 children in the United States under the age of 15 were diagnosed with cancer in 2009 (American
In my early college years, a friend briefly mentioned that there was place so extraordinary that he wanted to return every year. When I asked him more about this, he elaborated that this haven was at a childhood cancer summer camp called Special Days, which brings in children who have or have had cancer, as well as their siblings. He attended this camp in his youth after his sister developed cancer at a young age, but when he grew older he decided to return as a volunteer to make a difference in the lives of new campers. He invited me to volunteer with him one summer, and it was rewarding as I established meaningful relationships with the campers and the other volunteers. It was this experience that would serve as my inspiration to engage in
In the last 2 years we had 2 deaths of adults less than 40 years old due to cancer
breast cancer from twenty five to thirty percent and women age forty the data states a
1. Findings are positive and showed a rise in early-stage diagnoses among the younger group. About 79% of the younger group had an early-stage diagnosis in 2011-12, when compared to 71% in 2007-09.
Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world and its frequency continues to rise. Each year 12.7 million people discover they have cancer and 7.6 million people die from the disease (Neal Megahan). More than half of the people that discover they are diagnose with cancer, eventually die from this disease. Cancer is a prevailing issue that needs to be further studied because of how it affects individuals psychologically, physically, and its impacts on daily life.