5th Period
About cancer and the science
Cancer is a disease that is caused by an abnormal growth in cells in a certain part of a body. Cancer and genes are connected in this because genes has something to do with cancer. Cancer is created by a gene mutation, genes can also make cancer a risk for people. We can also use gene testing to find out if you have cancer or not. The human culture accepts this because they want to find a way to cure cancer and get rid of it for good. The costs of finding a cure is lots of money and failing involved. It takes a lot of money because we have to get volunteers who have the disease and test on them. With testing comes lots of money for new machines, doctors, and labs. Also we might lose lives from failing and not getting the cure right.
Risks and benefits
Risks- Radiotherapy can damage or destroy normal cells as well as destroying cancer cells and cause treatment side effects. The risks of surgery is that is depends on what surgery you are having. Also how long you are in the surgery and how much anesthesia. Chemotherapy risks are nausea, vomiting, diaherra, hair loss, loss of appetite, fatigue, fever, and mouth sores.
Benefits- The benefits of cancer treatments are therapies are currently limited to surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Surgery can be used to prevent, treat, and diagnose people with cancer. Radiation is the most common treatment for cancer and uses high-energy waves to destroy the cancer cells. Chemotherapy uses drugs that are used for treating cancer. With knowing this we might be able to create a new way that is almost like all of them put together but is all safe.
Questions
We asked five people a question on our topic. The first question was If you could have the test done to know if you had cancer would you? Why?
We asked my mom and she said “ Yes I would like to know if I had cancer. I want to know because then I can try and do something about it.
The second question was If you could decide between chemotherapy or radiation what would you choose and why?
We asked our grandmas and she said “ I would do the most aggressive that there was. I believe that there is hope if you try and so many new things are out there.
We asked the third question to our dad and the question is How do you think genetics affect cancer? His response was “ Genetics do not cause cancer, but you could be weaker to some type of cancers based on genetics.”
The fourth question was for my aunt and it was Do you think knowing how genetics affect cancer would help find a cure for cancer? Why or why not?
Her response to it was “Yes it would help find a cure for cancer. I believe some cancer is intertwined in our DNA and understand what those small differences in the DNA sequence may be could offer scientist better information as the why our cells divided incorrectly and form cancer cells.” Our final question was to a close family friend and it was “ How do you think science and technology today is helping us find a cure?” Her response was “It is helping us find a cure cause as our technology advances we can get better at finding a cure. Also science is being able to see deeper into things and that could really help.”
I think our genetic engineering concept which is cancer treatments would be considered moral because doctors and scientist are trying to find a cure for cancer patients. I think that this does affect the stage of life I am in right now because there will be many more complications to come while doctors are still trying to find a cure. However I do not think humans should consider re-designing life.
Citations
(n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2015, from http://www.cancer.org/
Benefits for Treatment and Clinical Outcomes. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2015, from http://nano.cancer.gov/learn/impact/treatment.asp
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