Breast cancer
I remember one morning, getting ready for work I realized I had a small lump on my left breast. I didn’t feel pain but I could see a lump. The whole day at work I thought about it, I told my husband and he thought I should go see the doctor. I was scared because the thought of having breast cancer was repeating in my head and it worried me, especially because my mom had it before. We went and I got a checkup, the test came back positive that i did have breast cancer. I didn’t want to believe it, for as long as breast cancer has been around, you’d think they would have found a cure already instead of the rate increasing. Depending on the women’s age, race and even their genes, most woman even develop breast cancer because of the chemotherapy.
Many woman depending on their race have a higher chance of developing breast cancer. Asians have the lower rate, as to the rate for white women their chance is higher. Death rates were 42% higher for black than white woman. “in the united states, breast cancer is diagnosed more often in white woman than in African American/Black, Hispanic/ Latina, Asia/Pacific islander, or American Indian” ( Cancer …show more content…
“The research team determined that the chemotherapy drugs paclitaxel and gemcitabine cause a molecule called hypoxia-inducible factor1 (HIF1) to snap into action, which in turn starts a process that ultimately produces more breast cancer stem cells” ( Mendes ). When having triple negative breast cancer, it is resistant to chemotherapy because of a certain cell. Research professor Semenza does his experiments on mice, his studies show breast cancer will come back when chemotherapy is stopped. “Semenza sees drugs that target HIF1 as a potential strategy for making chemotherapy more effective and helping more triple negative breast cancer patients survive.” Though there are drugs being tested in clinics already and if they work, studies
I remember one morning, getting ready for work I realized I had a small lump on my left breast. I didn’t feel pain but I could see a lump. The whole day at work I thought about it, I told my husband and he thought I should go see the doctor. I was scared because the thought of having breast cancer was repeating in my head and it worried me, especially because my mom had it before. We went and I got a checkup, the test came back positive that i did have breast cancer. I didn’t want to believe it, for as long as breast cancer has been around, you’d think they would have found a cure already instead of the rate increasing. Depending on the women’s age, race and even their genes, most woman even develop breast cancer because of the chemotherapy.
Many woman depending on their race have a higher chance of developing breast cancer. Asians have the lower rate, as to the rate for white women their chance is higher. Death rates were 42% higher for black than white woman. “in the united states, breast cancer is diagnosed more often in white woman than in African American/Black, Hispanic/ Latina, Asia/Pacific islander, or American Indian” ( Cancer …show more content…
“The research team determined that the chemotherapy drugs paclitaxel and gemcitabine cause a molecule called hypoxia-inducible factor1 (HIF1) to snap into action, which in turn starts a process that ultimately produces more breast cancer stem cells” ( Mendes ). When having triple negative breast cancer, it is resistant to chemotherapy because of a certain cell. Research professor Semenza does his experiments on mice, his studies show breast cancer will come back when chemotherapy is stopped. “Semenza sees drugs that target HIF1 as a potential strategy for making chemotherapy more effective and helping more triple negative breast cancer patients survive.” Though there are drugs being tested in clinics already and if they work, studies