1. Cancer and mitosis case study
Your Name and Period

2. Instructions for the assignment
This assignment is completed INDIVIDUALLY
It is your responsibility to remain on task, and turn this assignment in ON TIME.
Each day that it is late, 10 points will be deducted.
This is a research project, and you must site ALL SOURCES in a reference page.
It must be completed electronically, and submitted to google classroom. See class website tab for your google classroom code

3. Assignment: Part I Essential Vocabulary
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4. Assignment: Part II “The Cell Cycle”
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5. Assignment: Part III (Medical Article Analysis)
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6. Assignment IV: Cancer Research
Introduction
Name the cancer
Definition of the cancer
What happens to the cells?
What part of the body does it generally affect?
Description of the symptoms
List all of the possible effects on the body
Possible causes of the cancer
Are there environmental or health factors that can cause the cancer?
Can the cancer be inherited?
Prevention
What can be done to prevent getting this cancer?
How the cancer is treated
Medications? Surgery?
Chemotherapy? Radiation?
Nutrition? Lifestyle choices?
How the cancer is diagnosed
What tests are done?
Are scans done with MRI, CAT scan, PET scan, X-ray, or ultrasound machines?
How many and what type of people are likely to have the disorder
Is it more common in a certain group of people?
How common is it?
Application of research
What new information did you learn from your research?
Provide your rationale (reason) for why you chose to research this type of cancer.
Photos must be included in your presentation

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8. Assignment V: Case Study and patient Treatment
Read through the mock medical charts of each patient.
Research the possible modes of treatment (next slide), and decide which is best for each of the patients.
Consider medical costs, insurance, and health risks.
What are the side effects of your chosen treatment?
Reviewing #1-4, tell how you would treat EACH patient.

9. Some Possible treatment options
1. Surgery: to remove the tumor 2. Chemotherapy: use of medicine or drugs to treat cancer. “Chem” means chemical. 3. Radiation: much like x-rays. This is a painless procedure that uses rays to kill the abnormal cell’s DNA. This could also kill normal cells. 4. Homeopathic (natural) remedies: some say these methods don’t CURE cancer, but TREAT the symptoms: change in diet, exercise, cutting carbs, certain vitamins 5. Stem cell treatment: after cancerous cells (and some normal cells) are destroyed using chemo and radiation, doctors use stem cells to repair ANY damaged cells.

10. FYI: Stages of Cancer Stage symptoms Stage 0
Carcinoma in situ. Meaning, the most basic form of cancer. Cancer that has remained in its primary region. Ex. A breast cancer tumor that is in situ has remained in the breast tissue.
Stages 1-3
Increase in tumor size. Tumors starting to spread beyond the organ from which it developed.
Stage 4
Most severe. Cancer has metastasized (spread) to other parts of the body. This is the most aggressive stage of cancer.

11. Patient #1 Name: Carson Jones Male, 56 Cancer type: Prostate Stage: 2
Profession: Pediatrician. Graduate of Wake Forest, UNC-CH.
Family: one wife, 3 adult daughters, 2 grandchildren.
Additional info: Previously had surgery to remove the tumor. The tumor came back the following year.

12. Patient #2 Name: Joe Berry Male, age 81 Cancer type: Lung Cancer
Stage: 4
Profession: retired
Family: wife, 5 adult children, 10 grand children
Additional info: Patient has undergone 2 rounds of chemotherapy and radiation with minimal success.

13. Patient #3 Name: Maria Valdez-Aguilar Cancer type: Ovarian Stage: 3
Profession:
Family: husband (Deceased. Fatally wounded in Iraq). One son. Unable to have more children due to the location and Metastasis of her tumor.
Additional info: Patient was advised to have a hysterectomy (removal of uterus and ovaries) to remove the source of cancer. Patient refused. Now the cancer has begun to spread (metastasize) to her bladder.

14. What exactly do I turn in?
Assignment I: Essential Vocabulary (all terms defined)
Assignment II: All parts of the cell cycle defined (IPMATC), which pictures of each phase
Assignment III: Medical Journal Article Analysis (1-page summary written in your own words)
Assignment IV: Cancer Research
Assignment V: Patient Analysis & Treatment
Reference Page: all sources listed

15. Reference Page

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