Many people have been affected all around the world whether it was a family member or theirs self. Cancer has been looked upon as something disastrous by today’s society. The numerous forms of cancer are sporadic and diverse. The disease requires minimum amount of effort to gain control of one’s body. The processes of how a patient comprehends with cancer treatments delivers a sorrow feeling to the patient’s family and friends; however, cancer can be treated as well as prevented through certain strategic methods.
During most of the twentieth century the majority of people in the world smoked cigarettes to calm their nerve and promoted the cigarette without knowing that cigarettes can be a great cause to lung cancer. Soldiers who participated
Being a common cancer, treatments are very broad. Many therapies are available such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and radiation therapy. Killing off the cancerous cells can make the patient weak and vulnerable to other illnesses. Other strategies to remove cancer are also considered by patients such as surgeries. There are four different types of lung cancer surgery. Wedge resection and segmentectomy, Lobectomy, Pneumonectomy, and Video-assisted thoracic surgery. All of the following surgeries have the task of removing anything that resembles cancer in the lung as the article “Surgery” describes the procedure as Lung surgery, or thoracotomy, is a procedure where the surgeon opens up the chest cavity to gain access to the lungs. An incision is made in the side of the chest and the ribs are spread apart, so your surgeon can remove cancerous tissue from the lungs (1). Any of the previously listed treatments can help the patient or cause more harm to the patient. Any family that endures the cancer treatment process may struggle in many ways. Lung cancer not only affects the patient, but affects the loved ones of that person. The loved ones of the patient suffer from the cancer as well, having a doubtful perseverance will affect the family and friends mentally causing depression and other mental
1. Chemotherapy tends to be the conventional lung cancer treatment used that everyone has heard of. Today it uses a cocktail of over 100 different drugs and works by destroying the cancerous cells and stopping their spread. However, although considered to be an acceptable treatment, it does tend to cause many unwanted side-effects.
Cancer is a method by which normal cells of the body mutate and develop quickly into abnormal cells. As early as the 1880s, the only method of treatment of cancer was a radical surgery. This same method of treatment continued into the 1980s. Before chemotherapy, people were treated with comfort measures, meaning they were given drugs to help relieve the pain until they died. Also, before the 1950s, if you were admitted into a hospital with a cancer that could not be treated with surgery, it was understood you were there to die. In the beginning of the 20th century, treatment for cancer consisted of removing small cancers and those that were easily removed by surgery. Later on, radiation therapy was used to prevent the growth of those tumors that were not removed during surgery; then, chemotherapy was used to remove even smaller tumors that could not be removed by surgery or treated by radiation.
Austin Simonton Mrs. English English 10 – hour 2 May 6th, 2014 Brain cancer Introduction It is predicted that 564,800 Americans will die of cancer this year. Roughly 418,500 Americans died in World War 2 that is more than 100,000 less than what cancer will do this year alone.
Cancer. The word by itself can conjure images of severely ill and frail people attached to IV medications and chemotherapy drugs as they cling to life in a hospital bed. Other illustrations and pictures depict unrecognizable, misshaped organs affected by abnormal cells that grow out of control, spread, and invade other parts of the body. Cancer studies show that close to one-half of all men and one-third of all women in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer during their lives. Today, millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer. As patients are newly diagnosed with their specific type of cancer, whether it be breast, lung, prostate, skin, or blood cancer, etc., each patient has to consider what will happen with their future health care plan and who will be involved in their long journey from treatment to recovery. Once diagnosed, cancer patients become the focal point and the center of all activity in terms of care but cancer not only physically invades the patient’s body and well-being, it goes beyond the patient and significantly affects the emotional stability and support from from their loved ones and caregivers. Based on the insidious nature of cancer and typically late detection of malignant diseases, family members (either spouses, children, parents, other relatives, and friends) often become the patient's main caregiver. These caregivers, also known as informal caregivers, provide the cancer patient with the majority of the support outside of the medical facility or hospital environment and become the primary person to provide various types of assistance. They provide the physical support with bathing and assisting in activities of daily living, they become emotional ...
A cancer diagnosis can significantly change your life and the lives of your family in various ways. Hearing the news “you’ve been diagnosed with cancer” leave patients and their families in a whirlwind of emotions. The initial shock of this diagnosis leaves feelings of sadness, denial, frustration, confusion, fear, anger, and often times the “why me?” feeling. Thoughts start going through your head regarding how this affects yourself, your family, and your everyday life.
Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of many cells that appears in one lung or even both. This type of cancer generally lines the air passages in the lungs. These uncontrolled cells grow, not becoming cell tissue, but into tumors (Crosta). Tumors form because the abnormal cells in the lungs are not the right lung cells. They are mutated and cannot be killed like normal. Once the known tumors become oversized, they take over and cause the lung or lungs not to do their jobs (Crosta). There is primary Lung Cancer and secondary. Primary lung cancer is treated differently than secondary because, primary starts in the lungs, while secondary starts somewhere else in the body, making its way to the lungs. Lung cancer is grouped in two categories ' which are non-small cell and small cell (Marks). There are four different types of cancer.
Another treatment that is used to help a cancer patients overcome the disease is radiation therapy. Although very affective and used commonly, thi...
“Just take my hand, together we can do it, I’m gonna love you through it.” (I’m Gonna Love You Through It- Martina McBride). Breast cancer is an awful disease that will change your life in a single moment. ”Everything in my life was turned upside-down. I really had a wonderful life; A husband, three children. And breast cancer came along and just smashed my world” (Janelle’s Journey). Breast cancer is an aggressive war that takes a great amount of fighting to survive. “You go from being perfectly healthy, to feeling like, ‘okay, I’m dying’. It started a whirlwind of things that I never anticipated having to go through.” (Bonnie’s Story- Beyond The Shock). Did you know that the youngest person ever to have been diagnosed with breast cancer
No one, no matter how weak or strong, rich or poor, tall or small, is safe from the reach of cancer. Cancer is a dangerous disease killing millions every year without any for sure or easy way to treat it. For years people have tried to raise awareness towards cancer but now that it threatens the lives of so many do people listen and try to help. However even with the help of dozens of different groups and agencies cancer rates continue to grow at an alarming rate. Although we have found ways to treat it we only have theories on how to prevent and stop it. What make cancer so deadly are its Symptoms, commonness, dangerous treatments, the many different areas it can affect, and the cost encored.
Avoid the sun during the middle of the day. For many people in North America, the sun 's rays are strongest between about 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Schedule outdoor activities for other times of the day, even in winter or when the sky is cloudy.
It is a parent’s worst nightmare. According to a newly published study in The New England Journal of Medicine, a substantial number of children with cancer carry cancer-predisposing mutations inherited from a parent. Pediatric, or childhood cancer is a severely mysterious case. Typically, most cancers in the general population are caused by genetic mutations over the course of a lifetime, and young children (especially under the age of 15 years) have not been around long enough to experience large doses of UV radiation, chemicals or growth exposures that are the cause of cancer growth.
A young boy suffocates as his father smokes his second pack. While this happens everyday, the father never stops to think that these actions affect his child, which can potentially kill both he and his son. Society today knows the outcomes and effects of smoking, yet individuals still choose to do it. However, secondhand smokeU.S. Department of Health and Human Services. BeTobacooFree.gov. Be Tobacco Free,
Every American needs to stop and evaluate the risks that come along with smoking cigarettes and why American’s as a whole should drop this bad habit. According to Xin Xu, from Center for Disease Control and Prevention (COD), “Smoking kills about 480,000 American’s each year and remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States.” The cost of a pack of cigarettes range from 5.25 to 12.85; therefore, over 20 years, if a person smokes a pack a day, it cost about 38,000 dollars to smoke cigarettes. One’s appearance will diminish over time. Research shows that a smoker’s life expectancy is 10 years shorter than a nonsmoker. No matter what age someone is, it is never too late to stop smoking. American’s need to drop the bad habit of smoking because of the cost and also, the effect of one’s appearance, health, and future.
Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity, and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right (Bernardin). Many people throughout the country suffer from health problems but they don’t like to go to the doctor. Some people say “Why don’t you go, insurance covers part of it?” However, the point is that they don’t know that about “46.3 million people in the United States (which makes it 15.4% of the US population) did not have health insurance since 2008 (Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care?).” We as a nation should come together and let the government, the senate, the president and EVERYONE, know that with universal healthcare people well be able to get cure and won’t have to worry about paying so much for hospitals or doctor bills . Not only that, but with all the people that are sick or seriously injury, it can be prevent with inexpensive medical visit in which insurance will cover half the bill. It would be a relief if the president passes the universal health care law and allow people to get diagnosed on time and get treatments. On the other hands some solution that can help with universal health care are make insurance portable, streamline costs and improve access to preventive care.
Smoking is a simple process of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning tobacco, but it has deadly consequences. According to the American Cancer Society, smoking is the most preventable cause of death in America today (Encarta, 2002). Until the 1940?s, smoking was considered harmless. It was at this time that epidemiologists noticed a dramatic increase in the cases of lung cancer. A study was then conducted between smokers and nonsmokers to determine if cigarettes were the cause of this increase. This study, conducted by the American Cancer Society, found increased mortality among smokers. Yet it was not until 1964 that the Surgeon General put out a report acknowledging the danger of cigarettes. The first action to curb smoking was the mandate of a warning on cigarette packages by the Federal Trade Commission (Encarta, 2002). In 1971, all cigarette advertising was banned from radio and television, and cities and states passed laws requiring nonsmoking sections in public places and workplaces (Encarta, 2002). Now in some cities smoking is being completely banned from public places and workplaces and various people are striving for more of these laws against smoking.