Thyroid Cancer Chapter Summaries

Augustus also says “that’s the thing about pain [...] it demands to be felt” (Green, 63). The author must be a sad person because I could emotionally feel how the characters were feeling, and it appears as if Green provides a lot of insight through Augustus’ perspective about pain and sadness. I was able to connect this story to a movie, My Sister’s Keeper. Hazel is like the character Anna in the movie because they were both affected directly by the illness that is cancer. In Anna’s case, her parents’ conceived her because her older sister had cancer and Anna was to donate her organs. Hazel on the other hand, is a recipient of cancer.

So the cancer patient’s perspective should be the most interesting. “Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.(Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is really.)”(Green 3) this means that Hazel believes she is going to die and she doesn’t want to fight the cancer because she has no motivation to do so. Hazel knows that love has a lot to do with this whole situation “ as he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” (Green 125) With Hazel falling in love with Augustus made her forget about the cancer she had at times. As the cancer patient you must find things to do to keep your mind of the cancer. The thing Hazel did most the time was spend time with Augustus. “They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.” (Picoult 33) . even though Anna isn’t the cancer patient she is still being treated like one because of her older sister Kate who is the one battling Cancer. “Kate hugs a pillow to her stomach, and tears keep streaming down her face. Her pale hair is stuck to her face in damp streaks; her breathing’s too tight”(Picoult 11). This shows that Kate doesn’t really know how to handle that she has cancer and she thinks no one loves her. Kate is ready to stop fighting and just give up at that

“He has cancer! The doctor said he has a week to two months to live,” my mother blubbered. I will always remember the feeling of emptiness that followed those words. My uncle, Tony, had been in and out of the hospital for over a month with doctors saying things like “it won’t hurt him to lose any weight and he is depressed from having his teeth removed.” A million questions started running through my head. “Why him?” I mean he has already been through so much and having Down Syndrome makes it so hard for him to understand what is going on with him. “Why did it take them so long to find it?” He was literally there the night before and they sent him home with an antibiotic. “How does someone who has never smoked get throat cancer?” This question

Medullary thyroid cancer is an indolent neuroendocrine tumor that frequently presents with disseminated disease. While locally advanced tumor in the neck and mediastinum can be treated with surgery either for palliative or curative intent, distant metastases are not often amenable to operative excision. Metastatic MTC has a similarly poor response to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Viable therapeutic options for distant metastatic disease are still absent. Survival rate after discovery of distant metastasis has been around 25% at 5 years and 10% after 10 years, though this has more recently been improved due to earlier discovery of the malignancy (12, 13). However, new molecular targets have expedited the oncologic research

In Shakespeare’s play, the lovers are ravaged by the feud between the Montague's and Capulets families of Verona, Italy. I chose to add a picture of a scene from the Fault in Our Stars, to underline how relatable the scenario from Romeo and Juliet is. In John Green’s bestselling novel, the lovers are torn by cancer. Both Hazel and Augustus have had experiences with cancer, but Hazel — whose thyroid cancer has spread to her lungs — is the “grenade” in

One of the many of the world's problems is sickness, but some diseases have no cure which can result in death. Cancer is a code we just can’t seem to crack and it has taken hundreds of thousands of lives. Everyone knows of someone who has died of or had cancer in their life. It’s a hard sickness to beat but many strong people do beat it, some being children. I have personally seen my family members go through this and of course, some didn’t make it out alive. If you have seen anyone who has cancer, you’ll see how it can take over your body, how that person doesn’t even look like themselves anymore.

This disease is something that affects my everyday life and makes my normal routine very hard. My family at least my main family that is almost every single one of us has thyroid. We are a family of 13 6 girls and 4 boys counting my parents that’s 13 right now I think only two of my siblings don’t have it but are close to getting it. Often times, I find myself depressed and tired. More symptoms are pain in your joints, impaired memory, irregular periods; cold, weakness and a puffy face there are many more symptoms. Why I chose those symptoms to talk about in my essay is because those are the symptoms that I deal with on a daily basis.

Through the journey of life, it is one's decision to make their life happy and fruitful or relinquish it meaninglessly. Despite being a part of the incredibly small statistic of teenage terminal cancer, Hazel and Augustus handle their teenage angst with grace and humour.

Thyroid cancer starts in the thyroid gland. The thyroid glands are found in the thyroid cartilage in the front of the neck. In the thyroid glands there are two main types of cells: Follicular cells and C cells. In the Follicular cells use iodine from the blood to produce thyroid hormones, which regulate a person's metabolism. In the C cells make hormones to regulate calcium in the body. Causes for thyroid cancer are still unknown. Most do believe that changes in a person's DNA can cause thyroid cells to become cancerous. Some risk factors for thyroid cancer are smoking, family history, and a person's age. Some risk factors that can be changed are having a low iodine diet and limited radiation. Some ways to prevent the cancer are get tested

Patient MJ came in to the emergency department frustrated speaking in Russian. A translator was quickly requested and MJ expressed complaints of sudden swelling of the neck, and stated that he’s been feeling “butterfly in my stomach” all week long. Upon admission assessment, patient reported that he has not been feeling himself lately, lost a 15lbs in span of one month despite great appetite. Additionally, couldn’t sleep at night anymore because of his increased anxiety, and nighttime sweating. The admitting nurse also noted visible sweating, tremor, irritability, during the assessment and his vital sign was 99.4F 18R 120HR 144/92BP 99O2. Patient reported pain level of 2 from 1/10 scale for his throat discomfort. The assessment findings were tachycardia, diaphoresis, hypertension, and slight protrusion of the eyes.

Hazel realizes that having cancer encourages people to treat her differently. Because of this, she attempts to avoid interaction and communication with others so they do not get hurt when her life ends. In order to cut down her emotional stress, she tries understand that the world does not revolve around her and her pain will eventually go away.Hazel’s main focus was just how pain might eat you up mentally, but would not do anything in your life but make it worse. Pain in the end

17-year-old, Hazel Grace Lancaster, has Thyroid Cancer who goes to a cancer patient support group where she meets a boy named Augustus Waters. He is at the cancer patient support group to help support his friend who lost his eye due to cancer and is going to lose the other eye. Augustus is now cancer free after he got his leg amputated. Augustus and Hazel hang out after the support group and talk about what type of cancer they have/had.

Although Hazel, Augustus, and Isaac are teenagers living with cancer, they want to be treated as normal teenagers. They are not asking for special treatment or extra attention because of their disease, but only to be able to live a life of a normal teenager. Going through the normal problems of a teenagers life and getting to experience making mistakes, entering relationships, and doing what humans consider normal for teenagers to

Louise has been diagnosed with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is located in the lower neck, just below the larynx and directly in front of the trachea (Patton & Thibodeau, 2014). Its function is the secretion of three important hormones. Two of these hormones, triiodothyronine and thyroxine, increase cellular metabolism (Chiasera, 2013; Patton & Thibodeau, 2016). These two hormones are secreted according to positive and negative feedback systems, thus regulating the body’s basal metabolic rate. A properly functioning thyroid gland is, therefore, crucially important for maintaining metabolic homeostasis (Holt, 2010).

Most may think cancer is a disease that just takes over the human body causing it to be ill, but the deadly disease can cause a lot of heartbreak and unsolved issues. In the fascinating novel The Fault in Our Stars, John Green, took his audience through an emotional rollercoaster with the characters, Hazel and Gus. Hazel dealing with a terminal illness, is trying to find her own way in the world not knowing which day will be her last. Luckily for Hazel she met someone who was worth waking up everyday and seeing what the next day has in store for her. Hazel will now know the comfort and conflict of herself, Gus, and even dealing with Van Houten.