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)
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.
“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
... male breast cancers are established when a man discovers a lump on his chest. However unlike women, men tend to postponement going to the doctor until they have more severe symptoms, like bleeding from the nipple. It’s like the man are scared to go to the doctor are something. But sadly at that point the cancer have already spread if blood is coming from the nipple.
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.
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
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.
...lso recommend that their patients get an x-ray for the untreated breast as well. Doctors and patients are relieved quite a few times because a majority of breast cancers don’t recur, yet minorities of breast cancers do recur after several years. This is why doctors encourage their patients to come to their follow-ups. Doctors aren’t really sure that if the disease doesn’t recur in a few years it doesn’t mean it won’t. This cancer is slow growing so the disease may recur in about 10 to 20 years; however time does affect the likelihood of recurrence so if there are no signs of the cancer in the x-ray then there is a chance the disease won’t recur. Doctors and medical professionals can offer only so much support and every woman who has been diagnosed with is deals with the consequences of treatment and diagnosis no matter how strong she is needs emotional support.
Breast cancer affects nearly fifty thousand women each year in the UK. Breast cancer in women is more common over the age of fifty however in recent years there has seen a spike in younger women falling victim to breast cancer (Macmillan.org, 2012). Cancer Research (2012) states that there are a large mixture of emotions for someone being diagnosed with Breast Cancer and this also may directly impact the families and friends of those diagnosed. Furthermore Macmillian (2012) said that the feelings and emotions that come with a diagnosis of ...
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
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.
Chemotherapy also known as chemo is a type of cancer treatment that consists of drugs that are used to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy is a very widely used method of curing cancer, it cures cancer by slowing down or completely stopping the splitting or growth of cancer cells. Normal cells are different from cancer cells. Cancer cells are cells that are not stopping to grow and continue to split continuously without stopping . Normal cells eventually stop their own growth but these cancer cells are very different, they won’t stop growing.
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.
I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my