How Does Cancer Affect My Life?

Being diagnosed with cancer has impacted my outlook on life in many different ways. At first I saw cancer as a burden on my life and only the negative attributes stood out on how it was going to change my life and the way I saw people around me, but now after being two years cancer free, I have gone to realize the positive aspects cancer has had on my life.

Cancer has played a huge role in my life recently. It started when dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer when I was a junior in high school. He tried to remain strong and act like he wasn’t scared, but you could tell he was terrified and depressed. On a few occasions I went with him to his radiation treatments and I was immediately impressed with the radiation therapists. They were always smiling, and trying to make the worst time of some people’s life better. When my dad talks about his cancer experience he always talks about how much of a positive impact his radiation therapist had.

There have been 3 cases of untreatable cancer in my family. The first time I had was aware of cancer is when my grandfather was diagnosed with bone cancer. My grandfather was a very happy man with such joy that being sad around him was almost impossible especially after his passing. Grandpa Ken was what I called him. losing my grandfather made life very difficult for my grandmother who has several physical troubles. He died when i was very young, but even at a young age his death impacted me heavily.

Many families and friends are impacted by this horrible disease. This horrific disease is called cancer. Roughly, around 1,688,780 cells are diagnosed with cancer per year. There has been 600,920 deaths from this disastrous disease. When one of your family members has gotten the news of, “You have been diagnosed with cancer…”

Cancer affects individuals from all backgrounds, regardless of class, age, gender or ethnicity. It is known to be the leading cause of death in many countries (World Health Organization, 2013). According to the Canadian Cancer Society (2013) approximately half of all Canadians will develop cancer at some point during their lifetime. There are many different types of cancers affecting various regions of the body. A sarcoma is one classification of cancer that arises from connective tissues present in the body including bone, fat, muscles, blood vessels or the linings of joints (American Cancer Society, 2014). Rhabdomyosarcoma is defined as a cancerous tumor of undifferentiated skeletal muscle, and generally involves regions of the head and neck (Ojo, Si, Pelaez, & Younis, 2014). Rhabdomyosarcoma can be classified into three main types: embryonal, alveolar and anaplastic (Kikuchi et al., 2013). The purpose of this paper is to explore the disease process of rhabdomyosarcoma and analyze the findings relative to nursing practice.

Everyone has a person in their life that has been afflicted by cancer. For me, that person happened to be my mother, who was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer at the age of thirty-six. Thankfully, my mother made a full recovery after many months of surgeries along with a round of chemotherapy and has been cancer free for almost ten years now. Seeing my mother struggle through cancer left lasting impressions on me as a child, and spurred my interest in cancer, genetics, and medicine. This desire to understand the mechanisms of cancer formation and treatment led to me attending Mills E. Godwin Center for Math and Science, and it was there that I had my first experiences with independent scientific research.

You never realize how evil cancer truly is until it affects you or your family. I was four when cancer first affected me, stage four leukemia. My two year old cousin Conor was on the verge of death, and I had absolutely no clue. For the first nine months of his fight all I knew that he was sick, I assumed he had a cold, not fighting for his life. When I was five my mom sat me down to tell me that Conor was not going to make it, and that my brother and I were going with her to Albany to visit him. His bones were sticking out, his head looked like a bowling ball, and his skin was a pale blue. He looked like a child in a concentration camp during World War II. Honestly if you were to think of what a dead child looked like, that was him. That was the first time I realized that my mom was right, and that Conor was not going to make it.

Finding out you have cancer can be really hard to take and accept. However, no matter how hard it is, you must focus on your recovery above all else. This article contains many useful tips to help you in your battle with cancer, from learning about treatment options, to gathering moral support.

The year of 2012 did not only change my life but it affected my whole family. This is when my grandmother passed away of lung cancer. My grandmother smoked for a long period of her life and the outcome of that addiction ended with lung cancer. All of her grandchildren called her Gram. At the age of 42, her husband passed away and she turned all of her love and attention to all of her seven grandchildren. My gram was a very independent woman that loved her grandchildren with everything that she could give.

So many people are affected by cancer each year in the US. And too many are dying from it. Each year, about 1.2 million people are affected by cancer in the US. And each year, about 556,000 die from it. Sadly, most of these cancer cases could have been prevented. According to WHO.com, around one third of deaths from cancer are due to behavioral and dietary habits. Therefore, if people were to watch what they ate, and avoid unhealthy behaviors, the death rate due to cancer would drop significantly, as would the total number of cancer cases. A natural and healthy diet, followed by healthy choices and behaviors, could also help a patient who is diagnosed with cancer to shrink the tumor, or get rid of it permanently, such as in the case of my parents ' dear friend, Ms. Gloria Lopez, or Ms. Gloria, as my brothers and I call her.

“You have cancer” are three words that no one wants to hear. In an instant, someone’s life was changed forever. Multiple myeloma is one of those scary forms of cancer. It is defined as a type of cancer that affects a certain kind of white blood cells called plasma cells (Multiple Myeloma Pamphlet 4). It may seem scary, but fortunately, there are many different kinds of treatment to either treat the disease itself, or to treat the symptoms. Some of the symptoms can be minor, but there are also some major symptoms that can lead to serious problems. Before a doctor can treat a patient with any kind of medications or remedies, he must perform many tests to assure an accurate diagnosis. He would go through the patient 's medical history and

Cancer is a deadly disease that has some very serious effects on a person both physically and mentally. Cancer can result in a simple surgery that may take only a couple days, or a life-long struggle that leaves someone so fatigued and tired that it makes them want to give up. It will put fear in anyone's eyes and will devastate even the strongest of people, but cancer can bring out the courageousness in a person to fight this disease and not give up. It can be a fatal disease but it can also bring out the strength in someone which is an amazing thing. Cancer has many serious effects on a person's body and their mental health and others, but can also inspire a person to dig deep and fight this disease

Millions of people in the world suffer from cancer. In the year 2017, it is estimated that nearly 2 million new cancer cases will occur in the United States, leading to approximately more than half a million deaths (Cancer Facts & Figures, 2016, p.1). However, despite the drastic numbers shown in this data, it is almost a 20% decrease from data collected in previous years (Tao & Kiera, 2015, p.1). The increased survival rate of cancer patients is mainly due to advances in cancer research and the incorporation of multidisciplinary sciences in order to work together to find advancements in the treatment of cancers. However, despite these advances, a significant portion of patients continue to experience recurrence even after extensive treatment. Some scientists believe that different cancers follow different models and therefore must be approached using a variety of methods; however, research has shown that cancers all have cancer stem cells that can be treated by cancer stem cell therapy which has the potential to cure cancer by specifically targeting cancerous cells, preventing the recurrence of cancer in patients, and sparing healthy cells to better the treatment of cancer patients.

I hope to wake up one day to find cancer was only a Zodiac Sign, I prayed every night. We are surrounded with ill people, we come into contact with them almost everyday, and we read stories of sick people all the time. However, there is a huge difference between reading about a celebrity that has been diagnosed with some kind of illness and discovering that my own father has been diagnosed with Stomach Cancer. A wise man once said, “A father is a son’s first hero and a daughter’s first love.” In that case my father is all of the above. My father hid his cancer well, suffered a lot, and left this world peacefully. Writing was the only escape for me from at that time.

My dad got diagnosed with prostate cancer in early 2014. It was a hard year for my family, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Not even in my worst dreams did I ever see my dad having cancer. The man that I looked up to, and loved to pieces had cancer. I was devastated, I remember crying and being afraid that I was going to lose him to an incurable disease that lurked the lives of many.