Cancer deaths in California

Made him feel appreciative of life. As time went on, things ended up getting more and more difficult. His mother was unfortunate to get diagnosed with breast cancer when he was about 15 years old. It got very difficult around the household because of his mother being sick from cancer, it got even more difficult for his father to support the kids and aid his wife all at once. So my father started working endlessly trying to help the best he could. Working odd jobs as a…

Marijuana stops in cancer spreading and researchers from San Francisco in California Pacific Medical Center have reported. It stops the spread of cancer cells through Id-1 gene being turned off. The breast cancer cells have a high concentration of a drug, and its treated with marijuana. The treatment of the gene prevents it from becoming more spreader aggressively. In the state of Georgia, this can be of enormous benefit as many people have been dying and diagnosed with cancer. Many individuals…

The setting of the novel, Ball Don’t Lie, by Matt de la Pena, is set in Venice, California. Venice is near the large city of Los Angeles. The time period was around the 1990’s. This novel has a lot of sad feelings. First off Sticky’s mom died when he was a young boy, she died of cancer. After that all the way to the age of 17 he jumped from foster home to foster home. This character once said “‘ It’s the best place in L.A. to ball… one court houses the homeless and the other accommodates…

On March 2, 1904 a man named Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was born (Pascal). Theodor Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts (Pascal). Dr. Seuss grew up in Massachusetts and Germany. Dr. Seuss’ parents names were Henrietta and Theodor Geisel (Koehler). Dr. Seuss’ have two sister Margaretha and Henrietta Geisel, but sadly Henrietta died before birth (Pascal). In 1927 Dr. Seuss got married to a woman named Helen Palmer then in 1967 Helen Palmer died of depression (Pascal). After that Dr.…

Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana has many great effects on many different people with many different health related problems. Marijuana has been proven to help with pain, nausea, appetite, etc. Many cancer patients, patients with HIV, patients with seizures, patients with neurological disorders, and many more have benefitted from medical marijuana. There are many states that have already legalized this for medical purposes, but there are still many who have not. Many people are worried that…

medical marijuana helps to cure many diseases and alleviate the pain during the operation. More importantly, cancer causing many people deaths can be cured by the medical marijuana. In U.S., although this medical method is legal only in twenty-three states laws, the federal law considers that the medical marijuana is illegal. As a consequence, a business following the state law, like California laws allows employees to use the medical marijuana because…

For instance, HIV/AIDS among women aged 15-44 years old, is the main cause of death. Unsafe sex, lack of adequate health education and services, inequality of power in sexual relations, and biological factors happens to be a result for women to contract virus infections. The second leading global cause of death among women was maternal deaths, because of pregnancy and childbirth issues. A reason is that many women, despite which region they live in, do not have…

Joe Milosch graduated from San Diego State University. His poetry has appeared in various magazines, including the California Quarterly. He has multiple nominations for the Pushcart and received the Hackney Award for Literature. His books are The Lost Pilgrimage Poems and Landscape of a Hummingbird. Before I retired, I worked for the last 40 years as a trail locator for the Cleveland National Forest and as a heavy equipment foreman in the private sector. My Poetry draws on those experiences; as…

In the same year, zip code 95661 reported 282 deaths in Roseville. Both zip codes listed heart disease as the top leading cause of death and cancer as the second leading cause of death (California Department of Public Health, 2012). Zip code 95945 listed both Alzheimer’s and chronic lower respiratory disease tied as the third leading causes of death, while zip code 95661 listed Alzheimer’s disease as the third leading cause of death (CDPH, 2012). Life expectancies for zip code 95945 are…

Should Euthanasia Be A New Option For Terminally Ill Patients? The loss of a loved one is a detrimental situation that everyone must go through at some point in life. However, when a person faces this point in life, whether it be their own death, or a loved ones, it is ideal that it be as simple and uncomplicated as possible. For terminally ill patients, hospice is a common form of late-stage care. “Hospice is specialized type of care for those facing a life-limiting illness, their families…