Who Knew
While sitting at work one day, Emma was anxiously waiting to go home to her family and look at her mail. Today was the day she would receive a letter in the mail to find out whether or not she would have cancer. She was not nervous because she knew that she would not have cancer. How could she? It does not run in her family, but that is all she thought of. She never even considered her health or her work place. She did not want to. Who could blame her? At work she sits and takes calls on the phone hours upon hours and does not move. She also knows she does not have the best health in the world, although she does walk up three flights of stairs every day. That is not enough though. She gets off work and heads to her car still not nervous …show more content…
What she thinks the letter will be will actually be a wakeup call. When she gets home she sees the letter on the kitchen counter. She opens it and the first sentence of the letter says, “Emma, from your recent cancer screening it states that you have an 80% chance of cancer.” Emma’s heart is beating like a drum. She is dumbfounded by the news and is afraid to tell her family. Unfortunately, there are many scenarios like this one, where people do not think that they will get cancer. They never think it will happen to them, not to their family, but for it to happen for someone else. 1 in 3 women will most likely to get some sort of cancer in their lifetime, and 1 in 2 for men to get cancer. Most people do not think about cancer either; they do not think there health is having a risk in this or their environment. Family genes, health and people’s environment impact a person’s likeliness of getting cancer which can result in hair loss, loss of normal life, and …show more content…
Unfortunately, people of all ages can get cancer and in some cases cannot do anything to prevent it. Family genes are one a many ways that people cannot prevent cancer. In the article “Family and Inherited Cancer Genes” it states, “Some faulty genes that increase the risk of cancer can be passed on from parent to child. These are called inherited cancer genes. This occurs when there is a mistake or a fault in the genes in an egg or sperm cell” (Family and Inherited). An example like this would be from the novel The Fault in our Stars by John Green. In the book it states how Hazel Lancaster has stage four thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. She is quick to realize that from this cancer she is more than likely to die sooner or later and that her mother will soon go into depression from it. Hazel had no idea how she got this cancer, all she knows is that it could have come from a relative. From this cancer, Hazel has lost her normal life and starts being depressed. Since cancer can be so unexpected, there life can change in an instant. In a person’s day to day life they could be physically active almost every day, but is that enough? Once someone is diagnosed with cancer there life can change in a blink of an eye. They can go from running three or four miles a day to just walking for a short distance once a week. In Sheryl Ubelacker’s article,
While sitting at work one day, Emma was anxiously waiting to go home to her family and look at her mail. Today was the day she would receive a letter in the mail to find out whether or not she would have cancer. She was not nervous because she knew that she would not have cancer. How could she? It does not run in her family, but that is all she thought of. She never even considered her health or her work place. She did not want to. Who could blame her? At work she sits and takes calls on the phone hours upon hours and does not move. She also knows she does not have the best health in the world, although she does walk up three flights of stairs every day. That is not enough though. She gets off work and heads to her car still not nervous …show more content…
What she thinks the letter will be will actually be a wakeup call. When she gets home she sees the letter on the kitchen counter. She opens it and the first sentence of the letter says, “Emma, from your recent cancer screening it states that you have an 80% chance of cancer.” Emma’s heart is beating like a drum. She is dumbfounded by the news and is afraid to tell her family. Unfortunately, there are many scenarios like this one, where people do not think that they will get cancer. They never think it will happen to them, not to their family, but for it to happen for someone else. 1 in 3 women will most likely to get some sort of cancer in their lifetime, and 1 in 2 for men to get cancer. Most people do not think about cancer either; they do not think there health is having a risk in this or their environment. Family genes, health and people’s environment impact a person’s likeliness of getting cancer which can result in hair loss, loss of normal life, and …show more content…
Unfortunately, people of all ages can get cancer and in some cases cannot do anything to prevent it. Family genes are one a many ways that people cannot prevent cancer. In the article “Family and Inherited Cancer Genes” it states, “Some faulty genes that increase the risk of cancer can be passed on from parent to child. These are called inherited cancer genes. This occurs when there is a mistake or a fault in the genes in an egg or sperm cell” (Family and Inherited). An example like this would be from the novel The Fault in our Stars by John Green. In the book it states how Hazel Lancaster has stage four thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. She is quick to realize that from this cancer she is more than likely to die sooner or later and that her mother will soon go into depression from it. Hazel had no idea how she got this cancer, all she knows is that it could have come from a relative. From this cancer, Hazel has lost her normal life and starts being depressed. Since cancer can be so unexpected, there life can change in an instant. In a person’s day to day life they could be physically active almost every day, but is that enough? Once someone is diagnosed with cancer there life can change in a blink of an eye. They can go from running three or four miles a day to just walking for a short distance once a week. In Sheryl Ubelacker’s article,