1. By: Abbigail Leigh Vibbert
Cancer
By: Abbigail Leigh Vibbert

2. What is Cancer?
Cancer is the general name for a group of more than 100 diseases. Although there are many kinds of cancer, all cancers start because abnormal cells grow out of control. Untreated cancers can cause serious illness and death. 300,000 each year get effected by cancer. Overall in the US there is around 4 million people are effected as of today and the number is still increasing.
The body is made up of trillions of living cells. Normal body cells grow, divide, and die in an orderly fashion. During the early years of a person’s life, normal cells divide faster to allow the person to grow. After the person becomes an adult, most cells divide only to replace worn-out or dying cells or to repair injuries.

3. Types of Cancer Breast Cancer- Pink Ovarian Cancer- Teal
Lung Cancer- Clear
Pancreatic & Leiomyosarcoma-Purple
Leukemia- Orange
Liver-Emerald Green
Esophageal & Stomach-Perwinkle Blue
Melanoma- Black
Colon-Dark Blue
Multiple Myeloma- Burgandy
Brain-Gray
Prostate-Blue
Cervical –Teal/White
Sarcoma/Bone/Bladder- Yellow
Childhood- Gold
Head &Neck-Burgandy /Ivory
Lymphoma- Lime
Uterine- Peach
Kidney- Kelly Green
Thyroid- Teal/Pink/Blue
All Cancers- Lavender
Types of Cancer

4. Most Common Cancers Breast
Kidney(Renal Cell)
Leukemia
Lung
Melanoma
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Pancreatic
Prostate
Thyroid
Half of all men and one-third of all women in the US will develop cancer during their lifetimes.
Bladder
Endometrial
Colon and Rectal

5. General Symptoms of Cancer
Persistent Fatigue
Unintentional Weight Loss
Pain is a later symptom in Cancer it effects the bones and nerves.
Fever
Bowel Changes
Chronic Cough

6. Treatment for Cancer
There are four standard methods of treatment for cancer: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy and biologic therapy.

7. St. Jude Children’s Research Center
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened on February 4, 1962 and was founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas. Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. 
St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
On average, 7,800 active patients visit the hospital each year, most of whom are treated on an outpatient basis.
St. Jude has 78 inpatient beds and treats upwards of 260 patients each day.
St. Jude is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer.
NO FAMILY EVER PAYS AT ST. JUDE FOR ANYTHING.

8. How much is research? It roughly costs 332 million dollars to do one
Research at St. Jude and for the American Cancer Society.

9. My Sister’s Keeper
Conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was brought into the world to be a genetic match for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, in order to keep her alive. Her family members are introduced one by one and each tells about how Kate's illness has affected them personally. When Kate turns 15, she goes into renal failure. Eleven-year-old Anna knows that she will be forced by her parents to donate one of her kidneys. She also realizes that she may not be able to live the life she will want to lead - she may be unable to cheer-lead, play soccer, or be a mother. Anna tells her parents that she does not want any of this, and proceeds to sue them for medical emancipation and the rights to her own body. Her extremely overprotective mother, Sara (Cameron Diaz), who leads an obsessive campaign to keep Kate alive, is indignant at Anna's decision and even strikes her across the face when she receives the notice of court proceedings. Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) agrees to work for Anna as her guardian ad litem, suing for partial termination of parental rights. It is later learned he agreed to take the case not for the notoriety, but because he has epilepsy and understands her predicament of not having control over her own body.

10. “Test Your Knowledge” Cancer is…
How many Americans are affected each year?
Overall?
3. How much does it cost for research?
Answers:
a malignant and invasive growth or tumor, especially
one originating in epithelium, tending to recur after excision
and to metastasize to other sites.
Around 300,000 people get effected each year. Overall total is around
4 million people and this number is increasing rapidly over the years.
3. It costs 332 million dollars to have one research done.

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