Cancer Paper

Diseases have been around since the beginning of time and threaten the daily lives of numerous people nationwide. However, with today’s technology, scientific breakthroughs, early detection, public awareness and education the mortality rates have significantly declined or, if mortality is inevitable then medicine has been created to help enhance a persons life expectancy. Over the past few decades more light has been shed upon the numerous types of diseases including symptoms, causes of the disease, and ways to prevent the disease. Some diseases are hereditary while others can be caused by unhealthy decision-making, or unsafe working environments. Due to the fact that there is more public awareness on diseases more people are taking the time to get check-ups. We now have the technology to detect cancerous cells in their earlier stages thereby totally reducing or eliminating the probability of the cancer spreading. Cancer has been the most common disease that runs through my family. My great grandmother passed from breast cancer when she was forty-four years old and my grandpa passed from lung cancer at the age of seventy-eight. This drastically shows how technology and awareness over time has played a huge role in life expectancies, because the mortality rate decreased in a matter of one generation. Although breast cancer and lung cancer are two different forms of cancer they, like all cancers, result from abnormal cells. These cells eventually mass together and form a malignant tumor that “grows aggressively and invades other tissues of the body”(Stoppler, 2011, Sec. 1 pg.1). Cancer is a life threatening disease that can be very difficult to treat. If more people understand the symptoms, extremity, and ways to prevent this disease they in return can live a happy and longer life to their full extent.

Lung cancer is most commonly defined as a “cancer that forms in tissues of the lung, usually in the cells lining air passages.” (Stoppler, 2011, Sec. 1,Pg.1)...