Pancreatic Cancer Reflection

A- I chose to do pancreatic cancer for my project because I love learning about the medical field and how the body heals itself, so I knew I wanted to do something with illnesses and diseases. I didn’t really know what specifically to do, until I started asking around my family, and they said to do pancreatic cancer because it has taken a lot of members in my family. On top of that, the Purple Stride, Columbus was right around the corner so it was going to be a lot easier to get some immediate progress on my project. I was hoping to learn basically what pancreatic cancer works, and what makes it so deadly, just basically researching cancer as a whole. I answered these questions by basically doing a lot of research, and by asking survivors things more personal the internet could not answer. My project is all

My main materials were mostly just access to the internet (we take that for granted) as well as the poster board and a camera and microphone for the pictures I took and the interviews as well. The most helpful material was the internet because it helped me do all of my research as well as keeping me in contact with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, which was a main portion of my project on top of the research. The first step of my project was research, I accomplished this by going on to various medical sites and I learned the most from the Action Network’s website, after I did this I wrote a lot of it down both on paper and on google docs. Step 2 was to go to Columbus, Purple Stride, and see what I could learn from there and even raise some money and give it to the Action Network. I achieved this by going to the event and asking volunteers about pancreatic cancer, going to the big booths they had and looking at the various statistics they had there. I just took