Breast cancer

Cancer is defined as a diverse state in which cells multiply, proliferate and spread through surrounding tissues. With all the different types of cancers we have, at least one originates from closely every cell type in the human body (Vogeistein and Kinzier,1992). Different influence can affect the processes of the cell cycle in both positive and negative ways. Tumor suppressor gene p53 is among the negative regulators of the cell cycle if affected by alteration, mutations or by interaction with…

BREAST CANCER “We don’t know how strong we are until being strong is the only choice we have” (Breast Cancer Awareness). This paper will be about what cancer is, survival rates, chemotherapy (what it is, how it helps), radiation therapy, breast cancer rates in African American Women, the types of tumors and the difference between them, and information from women with personal experience with this specific type of cancer. Cancer begins when cells in a part of the body start to grow out pf…

A problem that has been important to me that I’d like to solve is cancer, and doing the research to help cure it. My aunt lived with breast cancer for a while and it did go away and she survived it, and that’s when I started to grow interest in cancer. Even though I was younger, I could see that she went through a lot of suffering and I did not want her or anyone else to ever have to suffer like that.The more I learned about cancer, the more I grew interest in it. I started to get even more…

experience many things with both of them. All I have ever known is that my best friend’s mom had cancer and I didn’t think that much of it. Two years old is way too young to even begin to understand what cancer is and how that can change someone’s life. So for thirteen years my best friend and I grew up knowing that Mrs. Kim had cancer. January of 2003 the doctors diagnosed Mrs. Kim with breast cancer. Obviously I was too young to understand this, but what I do…

because of cancer. One in eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. It is also true that most women won’t recognize their symptoms until the cancer has grown into a life-threatening tumor. Understanding and recognizing those symptoms can literally be the difference between life and death. Cancer is the second highest cause of death in the US. Nearly everyone has lost a love one to it. And yet to many, it is as mysterious as it is deadly. What is breast cancer really?…

was going to have a mom with stage IV breast cancer and I really didn’t think this would improve my life. The doctors said she couldn’t do anything, that chemo would just weaken her, so my family decided to search for our own treatments. There was everything from wheat grass, to teas, to herbal supplements, and I loved the journey of learning about all of these things. While we were on this journey I found myself wanting to join my mom in her fight against cancer so I decided to take on the…

into a waiting area just outside my mother’s room. When my father came out of my mother’s hospital room, he immediately came to hug us and relay information that the doctors gave him. He went on to tell the both of us that mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and her situation was progressively getting worst, but there were ways to treat the disease. Being only six years old at the time, I was not able to encompass the severity of the problem and the understanding to why my brother was crying so…

My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of twenty-seven. She was diagnosed at an early stage giving her the opportunity to survive with the help of the treatments. Seeing her go through this as her daughter has been a tremendous journey to take up, but gladly was there to help her go through every phase. Many people do not acknowledge what it means to have breast cancer or have no idea what the disease is. As a former student I feel that it is our duty to educate ourselves and…

Case no. 1: Risk Stratification: The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is an interactive tool designed by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) to estimate a woman's risk of developing invasive breast cancer. It has been used widely along with other such tools to predict risk of breast cancer. Breast cancer risk assessment tools are helpful in determining the risk group a patient is in. However, their accuracy for…

illustration. In the picture I have a breast cancer ribbon, a pot of boiling water, a prokaryote, a chromosome, a pedigree, and a factory to represent human impact, a flower to represent photosynthesis, a food chain, an energy pyramid, an embryo, humans evolving, a biomolecules chart, and the phases of mitosis. I drew a breast cancer ribbon because we talked about different types of cancer. There are many factors that go into the diagnosis of cancer. A lot of the cancers have the same risk…