Chemo Persuasive Speech

You're just going to an ordinary doctors appointment, but you hear news that is devastating. “You have cancer and you need to start chemo immediately if you want any chance of surviving,” says the doctor. You don’t really want to do chemotherapy because of the horrible side effects. That would usually be the end of the discussion, but that's not always the case for minors. Doctors go to court and take you out of your home and put you in foster homes until you get admitted into the hospital. You get taken away from the people you love and care about and get placed in a foster home with no idea what's going on. The court approves the chemo and you have to go to the hospital. You are so upset that you run away but return a week later afraid. Then you wake up strapped to the hospital bed with a port surgically inserted into you. This exact story happened to a girl named Cassandra who is a minor at age 17. She has hodgkin lymphoma and left untreated will kill you. With doing chemo there is an 85% chance of surviving. Chemo is when you put poison in your body to kill cancer cells. Nobody wants poison in your body, sure it kills the cancer but it also kills your organs. There are plenty of other options other than chemo but most doctors are almost convinced that the only way to kill cancer cells is to do chemotherapy.