Grabber: In the United States in 2007, approximately 10,400 children under age 15 were diagnosed with cancer and about 1,545 children will die from the disease.
On average, 1 to 2 children develop the disease each year for every 10,000 children in the United States.
My name is Ashley Gbemudu and for my senior seminar project, I did Pediatric Cancer.
Essentially, why I chose this topic was because in the future, once I am done schooling, I want to be a pediatric oncologist. I love kids and have always loved kids and I believe that this would be the best way to give back to the world.
It has been researched that pediatric cancer has a drastic effect on not only the growth of a young person physically but developmentally for family dynamic as a whole. While children often live long lives with cancer diagnosed at a young age, the effects can be devastating.
Cancer is a group of many diseases in which certain cells within the body lose their ability to regulate cell division. “The cancerous cell multiplies uncontrollably, causing other normal cells to be crowded out and destroyed” (“Cancer”).
If this growth takes place in a vital organ, malfunctions and death can result. Although cancer is primarily a disease of older age, it is the major “cause of death in children between the ages of 3 and 14” ( Cancer ). Because its symptoms are often subtle, childhood cancer is often difficult to detect.
The factors involved may be genetic or environmental characteristics of the individual. Diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis for childhood cancers are different for adult cancer.
Childhood cancers often occur or begin in the stem cells, which are essentially basic cells capable of producing other type of specialized cells that the body needs.
I have an overall structure to why my thesis proves relevant to me and in real world perspectives.
This is where I introduced the why of the research and what of the project. The connection being that because I have a vested interest in the well-being of children, I decided to do a project that would contribute to the happiness of children.
Here is where I introduce the project that I originally proposed to do and why it changed.
Here is where I discuss how Ali and I began this project together
Here is where I tell them about ALL of the planning it took to even be able to accomplish this goal.
I begin to tell the class about how everything went overall and how we accomplished our goal.
Here I discuss what worked, what didn’t work of the project and how it was a success and tie it back to my overall presentation and point.
All people will experience reactions of sadness and grief periodically throughout diagnosis, treatment, and survival of cancer. When people find out they have cancer, they often have feelings of disbelief , denial , or despair.
How the project and the overall research tied all together to get what I am now presenting to the class.
