Cancer Informative Speech

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Cancers Battle
Austin Sweeting
MGCCC

Cancers Battle
As we know cancer is a serious incurable disease that effects 1 out of 4 people in their lifetime. It’s a serious epidemic that plagues a serious problem with everyone knowing alest one person from dying from this goliath disease know as cancer. However, there isn’t just one type of cancer, there are hundreds and unfortunately I cannot cover every single one, but what I would like to do is hit up the main notable ones. The well know household cancer names that might grab your attention for its devastating damage’s or even death are breast cancer, brain cancer, lung cancer, and skin cancer.

As we dive into breast cancer we can see that it is a cancer that forms in cells of the breast usually …show more content…

Here’s the visual picture of how it happens, the lungs are two large organs made of spongy tissue, which lie above the diaphragm and just below the rib cage. When you take breath in your lungs absorb oxygen and deliver it to the bloodstream as we all know. That it where it’s pumped throughout the body and distributed. When you exhale your lungs remove carbon dioxide, also known as a waste gas, from the blood stream. So now that we get the basic understanding of how are lungs work this is where lung cancer comes …show more content…

Smoking significantly increases a person’s chance of developing this disease, but people who have never smoked may develop lung cancer as well.” (ACS) According to the American Cancer Society, “The lifetime risk of developing lung cancer is about 1 in 13 for men and 1 in 16 for women. In 2016, an estimated 224,390 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States.”

It’s a Beautiful sunny day out enjoying a nice walk on the beach, nothing to worry about right? Think again, hidden behind this seemingly perfect day a cancer is born! Skin cancer is a wide term that is used to refer to any type of cancer that begins in the cells of the skin. These cancer cells usually develop in the top layer of skin, which is also known as the epidermis.
The most common types of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma cancer. The easiest way to put how skin cancer starts is that its a case of normal cells going bad and then growing at an alarming rate. This population or growth of abnormal cells becomes more and more massive eventually until they take over resources such as blood supply and nutrients. It's a mostly overlooked and unchecked revolution in your body. Many don’t think of such things when exposing themselves to the

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