Informative Speech Outline On Cancer

C. The pregnancy will increase the progression of my disease and will reduce my CD4 counts.

B. Symptoms of this disease are very important to pay attention to because they can be mistaken for common illnesses that are not fatal.

Specific Purpose: To convince the audience that childhood cancer is more common than believed, and that action should be taken to increase awareness and funding for research.

Surviving this condition is quite a remarkable feat, although these people are especially prone to the resurfacing of the disease. In 2008, it was recorded that 12 million lives around the world have been affected by a medical history involving this disease.

It’s October of your fifth grade year, at the end of the day. You’ve gotten back into the swing of things, your teacher is awesome, and you’re at the top of the elementary school food chain. You’re about to walk outside. The weather is beautiful; the trees are still mostly green with a few ambitious leaves already changing color. The sky is blue and the sun is shining in the way it only does during fall. You’re going to remember how it felt to walk across the parking lot on that day for a long time. You’re happy, like you normally are when you leave school, and you get in the car. That’s when Mom tells you your little brother has cancer.

There are upwards of forty types of HPV. Along with the genital areas HPV can infect the mouth and throat. HPV can cause genital warts and cancer. It can sometimes go away by itself and people who have it can be asymptomatic. HPV can be passes through genital contact, vaginal sex, anal sex and even oral sex. This can be passed both heterosexually and homosexually. Rarely, pregnant women can pass HPV on to her baby during delivery. According to the CDC 79 million Americans now have HPV and 14 million new cases are found each year. It has become so common that nearly all sexually active people will have at least one type of HPV in a lifetime. 10,300 women per year are diagnosed as having cervical cancer. HPV can be prevented by condom use and having safe monogamous sex

Leading causes of death in this world is cancer. Anybody can get it. If you're one hundred years old or a newborn, it doesn’t matter if you are poor or have lots of money. Women and men both can get it. Nowadays, everybody in this world knows somebody who has cancer. It could be a family member or a friend of the family. There can be many family members who have it. One in two men and more than one in three women get cancer in this lifetime(1). Only 5% to 10% of cancer is inherited from one of your parents(1). If you have cancer in your family you can get what its called genetic testing. When you get cancer it can change everything.

According to American Cancer Society, in our bodies most people are born with two bean shaped organs, found attached to the back wall of the abdomen, these are called kidneys. As you grow in life your kidneys have multiple jobs, but the biggest job is that they act as a filter in your body. They will take in the blood and filter any substance not needed, such as excess water, salt, and other waste. Once the process of filtering anything bad begins, your kidneys will kick out what we know as urine. American Cancer Society says the kidneys will also “help keep your blood pressure controlled”, by making a hormone called, renin. Need more red blood cells? Don’t worry, your kidneys will make another hormone, known as erythropoietin, sending a message

when compared to the thousands of people in the United States but the number of 1,960 is not

b. Our cells are programed to know when to grow, divide, and when to die, with that said just like any other machine, if these “parts” within our DNA do not work then that is when our machine goes off track and starts breaking down.

People all over the world are affected by cancer everyday. It is estimated that every day of 2015, 68 Canadian women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer affects people of all ages in a direct or indirect way. Every 23 seconds someone gets breast cancer, and every 69 seconds someone dies from breast cancer. Breast cancer is a very large topic around the world with support from people and companies in hopes to find a cure.

Attention Getter: What do Sheryl Crow, Judy Blume, Suzanne Somers, Wanda Sykes and my Mother have in common? They are all breast cancer survivors.

Statistic: Cervical cancer is also known as the third type of cancer that is common in women worldwide. More than 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer are reported in world and more than 250,000 people die from it every year due to the persistent infection with oncogenic type of HPV (NIH, 2017).

A. Do you know that skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States; two million people are diagnosed annually.

Since breast cancer is more common in older women, it is encouraged to have a routine check-up starting at age 40, however if it runs in your family it can be promoted at as young of an age as 25.