Paige Aversa
Miss Campellone
English 10
20 May 2014
Rough Draft
Breast Cancer
Sonya Rose Atkinson, diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of thirty nine, is currently battling hereditary breast cancer now at the age of forty. “I’m climbing the highest mountains to survive, with many challenges along the way. I’m remaining strong and carrying on…” (Surviving Cancer). Her advice to new patients is to take one day at a time and to find your inner strength. Her one wish to everyone is for them to know was “How beautiful he or she is.” (Surviving Cancer).
Kevin Baldwin, a male who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of fifty. Kevin was in the shower and he slid bar of soap across his left breast he felt a lump; he knew exactly what it was. Kevin’s wife Arlene passed away fourteen years ago due to breast cancer. He soon went to the doctor and within days the results came in, he was right. He had developed stage three breast cancer. Kevin had a fourteen year daughter, Madie, who he often wondered if she would be next to develop breast cancer since both of her parents were diagnosed. “You immediately think women, but as I have learned, even though breast cancer in men is not common, it is possible.” (American Cancer Society). Kevin had never though he would develop breast cancer due to being a male, but he was wrong. Kevin soon started treatment and beat cancer.
Breast cancer is a type of cancer that forms in tissues of the breast. Breast cancer occurs in both men and women, although male breast cancer is rare. Breast cancer is a disease that affects many people yearly. For this reason, it is important to know, what the symptoms are, what the risk factors are, who can get breast cancer, the four main types of breast cancer, th...
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...rue cancer”, but it serves as a marker for the increased risk of developing breast cancer in the future. It is important for women with lobular carcinoma in situ to have regular clinical breast exams and mammograms.
There are many treatment options for breast cancer, the main types of treatment are surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and bone-directed therapy. Surgery would be removing the cancer. Radiation therapy is the treatment for a disease, especially cancer, using X-rays or similar forms of radiation. Chemotherapy is the treatment that uses medications and drugs to treat the cancer and to attempt to remove it. Hormone therapy is medications containing female hormones to replace the ones the body no longer makes after menopause. Bone-directed therapy is to help strength the bones because cancer can weaken your bones.
Over the past decade breast cancer has become one of the most predominant diseases in the United States. Breast cancer starts out as a malignant tumor in the tissues of the breast which is formed from the uncontrolled growth of abnormal breast cells. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, but it can also appear in men. (Stephan, 2010)
Breast Cancer is the most common type of cancer known among women in the US. It is
For cancer patients there are several treatment options. Surgery can remove cancerous tumors, chemotherapy uses drugs for treatment, and radiation therapy. The doctor in charge of the patient’s treatment may also choose to use radiation therapy. “Radiation
In life we come across many struggles and hardships. Some have more struggles then others but we all have them. Breast cancer could be one of those struggles whether male or female. Breast cancer is not just something that a woman can get like most people believe. Anyone can get it. In this essay you will about what breast cancer is, some symptoms, how it is treated, and my personal experience with it. Most people do not know what breast cancer is they just know that it is cancer in the breast.
Breast Cancer is defined as “a group of solid tumor malignancies arising in the tissues of the breast” (Sarah Crawford, Richard Alder, 2013) in human and other mammals. It can happen to both men and women. For women, breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. According to National Cancer Institute, in the United States, the 2014 estimated new cases and deaths of female from breast cancer are 232,670 and 40,000, respectively. For male, it’s 430 deaths out of 2,360 new cases. From these numbers, we can see that women in the U.S. are greatly affected by breast cancer, thus, it’s not difficult to imagine the impact on a worldwide level. Although these numbers look frightening, people can actually survive from breast cancer if it is detected early and treated properly, so it is extremely important for all of us, especially women, to have a better understanding of breast cancer.
“Just take my hand, together we can do it, I’m gonna love you through it.” (I’m Gonna Love You Through It- Martina McBride). Breast cancer is an awful disease that will change your life in a single moment. ”Everything in my life was turned upside-down. I really had a wonderful life; A husband, three children. And breast cancer came along and just smashed my world” (Janelle’s Journey). Breast cancer is an aggressive war that takes a great amount of fighting to survive. “You go from being perfectly healthy, to feeling like, ‘okay, I’m dying’. It started a whirlwind of things that I never anticipated having to go through.” (Bonnie’s Story- Beyond The Shock). Did you know that the youngest person ever to have been diagnosed with breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. The signs of breast cancer might include a change in the breast size, dimpling of the skin on your body, a lump in the breast, fluid coming from the breast nipple, or ever red patchy skin around the breast. When the breast cancer spreading, there might be swollen lymph nodes, shortness of breath, yellow skin or bone aches. Women in the U.S. have a 1 in 8 chance of evolving an aggressive form of breast cancer during their lifetime. When breast cancer is aggressive, it starts in the breast glands but grows into breast tissue. There are many treatments of breast cancer, there is no cure found yet. However they are effective treatments out there to handle breast cancer patients. Breast cancer treatments will depend on what type of breast cancer you have developed, also where your cancer has spread. The breast cancer patient would work with their doctor to come up with a plan that 's best for them to improve their health. There is two types of aggressive cancer, one is the ductal carcinoma. This is the most type of cancer a lot of breast cancer patients have, making up about 80%. Cancer cells start in a milk canal, break through the walls, and invade breast tissue. It can continue constrained, which mean that it stays around where the tumor was first started. On the other hand cancer cells may spread anywhere in the body. Invasive lobular carcinoma is about 10% of aggressive breast cancers. Dealing with ILC most women feel a thickening around or in their breast instead of a lump in their breast. Sadly some women might have signs of the combination of both. These are most asked questions with dealing with aggressive cancer. Like what upsurges the...
When one hears and thinks of the word ‘cancer,’ fear usually sets in. The truth is one of every eight or nine women in the United States will develop breast cancer. Men are definitely not excluded. “Approximately one percent of breast cancers are found in men” (Adler & Carlton, 2012, p. 8). So for those interested in the mammography field, they should do research and choose which type of mammography is best for
Cancer patients often wonder if going through treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are worth the risk of the side effects, in addition to the cancerous side effects. They feel that they can’t enjoy or relax in what a short amount of time they have left because they are bedridden from the nausea and pain that treatments put them through. Patients tell their loved ones to just let them die so long as they don’t have to go through any more pain. Those who are too old, are unable to recover from the effects, or are just too far in the grips of cancer, should refuse the more harsh treatments like chemo and radiation. On the positive side, refusing treatments after a certain point can save their families from the stress and cost of hospital bills. If caught early enough, patients can opt for safer and easier routes to getting rid of cancer like surgery or by doing a stem cell transplant.
The topic that I will be focusing on for this assignment is on the screening of lung cancer, since this is one of the most controversial debates all across the world. The significance of this topic is that when it comes to lung cancer screening, many individuals may or may not abide by it. There are many reasons to why individuals may not want to have their screening done for lung cancer. The top two reasons are that the screening itself is expensive and secondly, the results that they get from the screening may not be accurate. Imagine, if the results came up as a positive, for the ones who really do not have lung cancer, the amount of pain, time and money that they have put into the curing of lung cancer, is painful. At the same, time it is not fair for them to go through this much, when they actually do not have lung cancer. In this paper, I will discuss how lung cancer screening is a controversial issue and why it impacts us as a society and what problems that the family members, friends and medical doctors have to face if something does goes wrong.. Here is a portion of my essay that will appear on the final copy of my essay.
The two most common treatments are a mastectomy, which is the surgery that removes one or both breasts, the other treatment. The other most common treatment is a lumpectomy this is where the surgeons remove the tumor and other areas around it to make sure the cancer is gone. There are other treatments such as Chemotherapy regimen, Chemotherapy ensures that all cancer cells are dead. Although the Chemotherapy has side-effects including the loss of hair and being very sick. Chemo acts as a poison to ensure all of the cancer cells in the breast are wiped out. Other treatments such as Anastrozole, Trastuzumab, Cyclophosphamide, Zoledronic acid, Letrozole, and Exemestane, aren’t as common but are still put in use to treat breast
As defined by Majure, breast cancer is an “uncontrolled growth of abnormal breast cells” (Majure: 110). It is also one of the cancers that women fear the most. Not only do women get diagnosed with breast cancer, men do too. However, it isn't as bad, or as common, in men as it is in women so doctors don’t recommend screening for men. In the U.S more than one thousand men get affected by breast cancer every year and about two hundred thousand women are affected by breast cancer every year. Women are most likely to get diagnosed with it in their forties and fifties while some may be diagnosed with breast cancer in their twenties, if they started their menstrual cycles at an early age like 14. Typically, men are diagnosed with breast cancer in their sixties or seventies.
The shape and size of your breasts is a sign of womanhood and sexiness. As one of the main defining features of the female, breasts allow you to feel feminine, attractive, and confident. Regardless of what your opinion is regarding what the perfect breast should look like, you have a right to feel comfortable with the shape, size, fullness, and dimensions of your own breasts. Unfortunately, many women go on living unhappy everyday due to the size of their breasts. They feel as if they are unworthy or unattractive to their partners, regardless of what they are told by other people.
INTRODUCTION In this essay I will be discussing Chemotherapy; the problems it causes, what it does to your body, how it affects the cancer cells, it’s progression and use over the decades as well as why it’s used as a treatment for Cancer. Chemotherapy was first introduced in World War ll however it wasn’t intended to cure or treat Cancer. During the war it was discovered that the Naval Personnel were exposed to nitrogen mustard gas, which later became apparent to the medical profession that it was significantly decreasing the amount of white blood cells in their body.
...e the cancer and look for the positives in the prognosis and treatment find encouragement for the future. There are various models and theories such as health belief model that are used to explain ones belief on risks and associated risks of a chronic illness and then there are theories such as Crisis theory when dealing with shock when diagnosed with a chronic illness and gate control theory when looking at pain and the psychological issues around dealing with pain. However even with various theories and models trying to explain crisis, pain and compliance to treatment the outcome and understanding and ultimately the way an individual deals with a chronic illness such a breast cancer falls very much down to self-efficacy and the belief the individual holds towards the illness itself the attitude and perception in the outcome of the illness, treatment and beyond.