Living in New York City, or any city, where time is money and money is everything, many people mistakenly fail to think about ways they can detect, and in many cases prevent potential illnesses that the body creates. Some of these illnesses are one hundred percent preventable, some others are not. What many of these illnesses have in common though is that there are self tests individuals can perform to detect illnesses or potential illnesses. For my topic, I have decided to research something new, I will be researching Breast Cancer.
Breast cancer is at most seen as a cancer that targets women, but it also targets a vast majority of males as well. Breast cancer can happen to a forty year old mother of three, it can also happen to a twenty two year old college student. Breast cancer doesn’t have a preference for its hosts. Breast cancer doesn’t care if its host has a family or not, whether it feels that its host is emotionally strong to accept breast cancer, it just doesn’t care. Many people diagnosed with breast cancer usually have to deal with the strenuous and tedious treatment cycles that can exhaust a patient. Let’s not fail to mention, it can put a patient through a hell of an emotional rollercoaster.
Thanks to modern medicine and constant discovery of new treatments, statistics on breast cancer surviving rates have been on the rise. This means that although breast cancer is a deadly illness, modern medicine has allowed people to live through it, something that was without a doubt a reapers call back when these treatments didn’t exist. Some of the questions that will be answered in my next entry are the following; what is breast cancer? Why does breast cancer occur? How does breast cancer affect the body? Is breast cancer preventable? What types of treatments are there for a person diagnosed with breast cancer? What are the early detection signs for breast cancer? How many people were diagnosed last year? In the past ten years, what are the surviving rates of people diagnosed with breast cancer?
Many people would dread having such an illness. If people are let free to choose whether or not they want to have an breast cancer, 10 out 10 times the answer will likely be “no!”. Only problem is they people don’t have such an option and they just can’t choose. What is as important as knowing about breast cancer is being knowledgeable about the preventable measures that should be taken and when they should be taken. Life is short and heck at times its extremely hectic, but no one is going to take care of an individual’s body as well as that individual him/herself. We will study breast cancer because it’s a topic that relates to thousands of people, and within the next decade, it could affect many thousands more. The key is being prepared.
