According to Siddhartha Mukherjee, one in two people will be affected by cancer in one way or another in their lifetime meaning either they themselves have it or a close friend or family member does. This cultural event brought people together to listen to Siddhartha Mukherjee who has dedicated his life to cancer. His main goal is to develop new drugs to cure leukemia and other cancers. He took his audience on a journey learning about the history of cancer and what has been done to find a cure. According to his presentation the three main things we have learned throughout history about cancer is that first we must find cancer early, then we must use genetic fingerprints to direct particular therapies, and finally we must intervene as soon as…
The book it is full of stories of development drugs or therapies to treat cancer mixed with hopes and disappointed, success and failure, and smile and tears. However, I think the author doesn’t think out of the box he only saw the box from smaller into the bigger box. When he discuss the attempts to treat or cure cancer, he never discuss the Canadian nurse Caisse who used natural mix herbs to cure cancer and she succeed, Harry Hoxsey in 1930s whose used his grandfather mix herbs to treat cancer patients and he succeed, Dr. Max Gerson whose establish a new way pf cancer therapy by using diet and balance nutrients, and a lot of stories as showed in the Cancer The Forbidden Cures film. Some of these treatments big Pharm companies and AMA try to…
In the book Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease Paul Ewald looks into the diseases the world faces every day and presents a new theory to what causes them. The book breaks down the current germ theory, causes of this way of thought, and solutions to it. Ewald starts by diving into what the world thinks as everyday diseases including the flu, HIV, and stomach ulcers. The public normally differentiates these infectious disease from chronic diseases like Schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, and Heart Disease. The key difference between these two categories is that one disease is thought to be caused by viruses while the other is thought to be caused by genetics (Chronic Diseases).…
Cancer can form in practically any cell of the body. One mutated cell has the possibility of replicating at an abnormal rate, exfoliating throughout the entire body to spread their mutated…
The metastasis of cancerous cells is known to be the leading cause of mortality in cancer patients. Cancer cell progression and metastasis occurs when the cancerous cells are able to…
Introduction Cancer is a disease whereby cells undergo changes that cause them to grow uncontrollably1. These changes are caused by gene mutations2. Genes are sections of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), contained within every cell2. Genes control which proteins are synthesised and which cells should be destroyed2. Each type of cancer is classified according to the site where the cancer initiated, i.e. the location of initial gene mutation3.…
Charles sawyers found Gleevac. In the mid of 1970’s the Herceptin and Gleevac was the simple drug against cancer. Vogalstein concentrated on colon cancer comparing the DNA of cancer and normal cells, if was found different that it’s not one single mutation but several mutations that led to cancer and he described that combination of genes were involved in cancer. The human genome project was developed finding the genomic cells involving cancer. Lung cancers found to have some evidence regarding ALK mutations.…
I believe I had a good understanding of this article. It was an eye opener seeing how cancer works and how it’s almost impossible to stop. Although, I have hope because we see research being done. It doesn’t help but to leave me with questions about factors that affect cancer. Something so unpredictable like cancer is very addicting to learn about because you never know what truly understand it.…
The disease i am going to talk about is cancer, cancer is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. How does cancer from cancer forms or develops when the body’s normal function for control stops working it happens like this old cells don’t die instead they grow not just any normal growth it’s an out of control type of growth with this growth it destroys the surrounding tissue it could possibly spread to other areas in a process called metastasis how does metastasis do this well it breaks away from the tumor into the bloodstream. This disease affects the following organisms -skin cancer: is the abnormal growth in skin, basal cell cancer, melanoma is the more serious type of skin cancer, and also squamous cell skin -lung cancer: this…
There is not a single person in the world that has not heard or been affected by the terrible disease of cancer. With the adoption of the western lifestyle cancer rates have been raising over the years, studies show that hereditary and genes does not have to be apart of it anymore. Even with cancer cases on the rise so has the survival rates this in turn brings cancer awareness that is generating advance treatments, also increasing the improvement to cure this disease. Awareness Breast Cancer Awareness…
Hereditary Cancer Cancer is one of the most unknown subjects in the medical world. When it comes, why it comes, and how to effectively contain it is still being studied. Treatments have been available to lessen the cancer, or in some cases, take it away. The medical community has come so far in our knowledge of cancer. Splitting cancer into two specific groups of somatic cancer and hereditary cancer, researchers are getting more information.…
Cancers Cancer is a dangerous disease. Have you ever wondered how cancer works? Symptoms of breast cancer are unique, the causes are unclear, but scientist do know that it is always caused by a damage to a cell’s DNA. There are different types of treatments for breast cancer. There are different symptoms of prostate cancer, scientist don’t exactly know what causes it, and there are many kinds treatments for the cancer.…
Influences of Epigenetics on Cancer Introduction Cancer before epigenetics History of cancer. Cancer is characterized by an out of control growth of tissues within one’s body. These cells are known as a mutated tissue cells, and these resulted in a new replication patterns. The word cancer was derived from the term carinas and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming or ulcer-forming tumors by the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C). Studies over the centuries have been trying to determine the derivatives of the mutated cells being that cancer dates back to about 3000 B.C. in Egypt (American Cancer Society, 2016).…
Unfortunately, basic misconceptions or complete lack of knowledge about the reasons behind tumor growth have turned…
In the united states, approximately 14 million people survive cancer and more than 1.6 million individuals are newly diagnosed. The complexity of cancer imposes on the ability of clinicians, patients, and families. Many patients don’t normally get appropriate and fully ran through information on their diagnostics which results in many patients not getting all the care they need. Decisions about cancer cure are not based on evidence. “The decision to talk to a sick child about death is never easy…” - many parents struggle with dealing with “what’s right”.…