The Cancer Journals

firm decision to not allow silence rule over her breast cancer experience during the late 1970s. Through The Cancer Journals: Special Edition, Audre Lorde starts the conversation about breast cancer from her own experiences. Lorde focuses on the topics of cosmetics, funding focus, and the barrier of silence. On the surface, the slogan “save the titties (or boobies),” may seem completely harmless since it brings awareness to breast cancer. Even so, this slogan perpetuates the outrageous female beauty

The purpose of this reflective journal is to describe how my capacity to view the world was changed by my experience with cancer. In this paper, I will explain the circumstances surrounding my cancer. I will also include how I felt while this traumatic event was happening and how having this cancer at such an impressionable age has helped me to become more empathetic towards my hypothetical patients and the general population as a whole. When I was fifteen years old I was diagnosed with stage 2b

relation to a society. Audre Lorde does exactly this in The Cancer Journals, the complete memoir, and journal of her experience with cancer and the social pressures that surround it. Lorde describes her cancer as a sort of mediator between her multiple identities as a black queer female activist poet. Throughout her journey, she was forced to analysis how the many pains of her identities presented themselves in her physical pain. Lorde’s cancer forced her to examine her identity as a black woman, in

To the best of my understanding, the review article ‘Watchful waiting for prostate cancer’ discusses early detection and treatment of prostate cancer whilst questioning the efficacy of aggressive treatment in comparison to other methods such as watchful waiting (or delayed, conservative therapy). “Watchful waiting is an approach to a medical problem in which time is allowed to pass before medical intervention or therapy is used. During this time repeated medical testing may be performed”. The rationalization

Oncotarget is a medical journal published by Impact Journals. It carries in it peer-reviewed information on matters of cancer, an illness that is taking the lives of people left-right-and-center. Cancer is a deadly illness, terminal to say the least. Any information giving a lead to better chances with cancer is much appreciable. Oncotarget is there for everyone, to ensure that people have access to cancer information every time they need it. Every week, Oncotarget provides readers with insightful

Lorde, author of the autobiography The Cancer Journals, reiterates her experience of having breast cancer and her decision to have a mastectomy through a series of journal entries. Throughout these entries, she expresses a range of emotions all across the board. This is not just to describe her battle with breast cancer, but to also highlight how her various identities intersect with her experience. Lorde looks to her journal to channel her fear of breast cancer in order to power through the experience

The article, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer written by Adi Ferrara is an informational general review journal article. It informs and explains to the audience what non-small cell lung cancer is. This article was published in the journal, Radiation Therapist in spring 2013. Section 3: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, is a journal article which gave the audience an overview of what non- small cell lung cancer is. The journal article starts off by giving the audience a brief but detailed explanation of the

RUNNING HEAD: ELIMINATING cancer ELIMINATING cancer Eliminating Cancer Chauncey Caffey Kean University If there is a disease that needs to be eliminated from the plant it should be Cancer. Cancer is the number one cause of death in countries that are economically developed and the second leading cause of death in developing countries. (Organization, 2004) The burden of cancer is increasing in economically developing countries as a result of population getting older

With the advancement of therapies for breast cancer, comes with the increased use of screening through mammography, a technique that uses x-ray’s, which is helping people get more accurate cancer diagnosis (E). According to the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 40% of all breast cancers diagnosed by mammography is DCIS and the general consensus is that it doesn’t have any metastatic potential making the survival rate regardless of the type of therapy, 96%-98% (E). Another recommended screening

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is an appropriate journal for the study to have been published in as the study is centered around nutritional measures to reduce ovarian cancer. The Journal of Nutrition would have been another suitable journal in which the study could have been published. However, as the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is focused on a clinical population, this was the most appropriate journal for the study to be published. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition