My Mom's Battle With Cancer
There has been an alarming increase in the number of people being diagnosed with cancer nowadays. In my family alone, almost all my grandparents and their siblings all died because of cancer. The question that enters our mind is how does cancer start?
Before we answer this question I want to share my own personal experience with the dreaded disease. 15 years ago my mom was diagnosed with cancer of the ovary. It was a tough time for our family because my mom was a single parent who was the only one we had working to provide for our family and send me and my brother to school. My dad left us when I was just 12 years old and he never gave us any financial support. So this was really a big blow to the family and just the possibility of us losing her was causing a lot of stress. It was quite a shocking diagnosis at first because my mom was only in her mid-thirties back then and she didn't have any vices.
It was a blessing that the cancer was discovered in the early stages so we decided as a family to have her undergo surgery to remove her ovaries as per the advice of her doctors. The surgery went well and the cancer did not spread to other parts of her body. This was such a relief for our family but we
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She now lives a healthier lifestyle compared to before. She goes to the gym on a regular basis and her diet is more on healthy food that is natural and organic. She also spends on high quality supplements that are beneficial to overall health. She even bought a juicer lately and is now into juicing as well. She also has regular annual check ups so that we can be up to date with her medical condition. One of the reasons why we won the battle with cancer was early detection. Having regular check ups would be great even if you don't feel that anything is wrong with you. We don't want the Big C to creep up on you and surprise
The one horrific thing about cancer is that I never knew when the timer would run out on me-or how I would cope with it. Finding out my grandmother had cancer instantly hurt me almost as much as it did to say goodbye.-it felt like the beginning to and end all too quick. It all started in the hospital with chemotherapy,
... of the treatment methods that I previously mentioned. She also put a great deal of effort into resisting treatment, which in my research I found is actually fairly common. Several studies reported that, although symptom remission could be obtained for 27% of patients within 4 weeks and 45% within 5 years following treatment initiation, 20– 30% of patients reached a treatment-resistant status on the other side. (Kanahara, et al., p. 1)”
passed the practice of holistic medicine has helped but Ella is back in remission. Her body is
A few months ago, she was diagnosed with leukemia and has been receiving Chemotherapy. The doctors have confessed that the Chemo has not had any impact, and found a donor match for a bone marrow transplant.
As I stood at her bedside, my mind flashed back to how it happened. Before, I never thought a phone call could change someone’s life. I found out a few months ago, on a late sunday night. I remember her saying she had it. When I asked what she had, her voice grew silent and she whispered one word. Lauren had cancer.
Ovarian cancer is the abnormal growth of malignant cells in the ovaries, the egg (ovum) producing part of the female reproductive system. Often, Ovarian cancer goes undetected until it has metastasized (spread) to the pelvis and abdomen. At this late stage, this cancer is difficult to treat. Ovarian Cancer ranks as the 11th most common cancer among women, and it is the 5th leading cause of cancer-related death for women.
The world we live in can be wonderful at times,but can also be dangerous and danger isn’t a good place to start at.The word cancer seems terrifying when someone thinks about it and they should be because there is a lot of types of cancer from all over the word.Cancer is the leading causes of death everywhere you go and it happens from different parts of the body.From someone that doesn’t understand cancer it’s very important to know about the aspects in which they come around.They way a cancer forms,symptons that are caused,and the way each cancer type is treated is very important to consider.
When I was younger, I remember feeling as though I lived in a bubble; my life was perfect. I had an extremely caring and compassionate mother, two older siblings to look out for me, a loving grandmother who would bake never ending sweets and more toys than any child could ever realistically play with. But as I grew up my world started to change. My sister developed asthma, my mother became sick with cancer and at the age of five, my disabled brother developed ear tumors and became deaf. As more and more problems were piled upon my single mother’s plate, I, the sweet, quiet, perfectly healthy child, was placed on the back burner. It was not as though my family did not love me; it was just that I was simply, not a priority.
She’s been struggling everyday of her life for the past 10 years; battling and fighting this horrible disease has made it hard on her and her family. The cancer has now metastasized, making it difficult for her to take care of everyday responsibilities and participate in daily activities. Her 13-year-old daughter is watching as her mother suffers and becomes brittle and weak.
"Ring, ring", I wondered who was calling me at this time of evening. "Yes; o.k.; Yes, I'll be there", I said before hanging up the phone. What was wrong, I wondered all that evening that the doctor wanted me to come in to discuss my lab results? I had never been asked to come in to the office after doing blood tests before; when receiving a call as this the mind plays tricks on the person and wild things start popping up in the head.
Due to a number of abnormalities and amplification of chromosomes, the epithelial ovarian tumors have been categorized into several types of histologic subtypes, which are serous, mucinous, endometroid, or undifferentiated. These tumors can be benign, borderline malignant, or frankly malignant. The malignant forms are collectively classed as ovarian adenocarcinomas and account for 90% of all ovarian malignancies (McCance et al, 2010, p.847). Serous tumors generally affect women from 50 to 55 years of age and are extremely rare in prepubertal girls. If the patients get treatment in stage 1, they usually have a 90% of 5-year survival rate, but it declines as the disease
Imagine having to wake up each day wondering if that day will be the last time you see or speak to your father. Individuals should really find a way to recognize that nothing in life is guaranteed and that they should live every day like it could be there last. This is the story of my father’s battle with cancer and the toll it took on himself and everyone close to him. My father was very young when he was first diagnosed with cancer. Lately, his current health situation is much different than what it was just a few months ago. Nobody was ready for what was about to happen to my dad, and I was not ready to take on so many new responsibilities at such an adolescent age. I quickly learned to look at life much differently than I had. Your roles change when you have a parent who is sick. You suddenly become the caregiver to them, not the other way around.
It was a Monday night; I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just completed my review of Office Administration in preparation for my final exams. As part of my leisure time, I decided to watch my favorite reality television show, “I love New York,” when the telephone rang. I immediately felt my stomach dropped. The feeling was similar to watching a horror movie reaching its climax. The intensity was swirling in my stomach as if it were the home for the butterflies. My hands began to sweat and I got very nervous. I could not figure out for the life of me why these feelings came around. I lay there on the couch, confused and still, while the rings continued. My dearest mother decided to answer this eerie phone call. As she picked up, I sat straight up. I muted the television in hopes of hearing what the conversation. At approximately three minutes later, the telephone fell from my mother’s hands with her faced drowned in the waves of water coming from her eyes. She cried “Why?” My Grandmother had just died.
By the time I had entered middle school she was in a wheelchair. She was no longer able to do her favorite things - work, drive or swim. I wondered why there wasn't a cure for her. Is it because there is not enough money for research? I think every day that this will be over soon and there will be a new medicine she can try. There have been many drugs that doctors have prescribed but none seemed to work. My mother and our whole family get our hopes up so high every time. Nothing seems to stop the progression of this disease.
while, being as he was rushing to Cooper Hospital to see my mother. At this