Cancer Project

5 of the thinks i learned while doing this project are:

• That not all tumors are cancerous. Sometimes normal cells can grow but they aren't cancerous.
• The words benign and malignant and there meanings. Benign means a noncanerous tumor, malignant means a cancerous tumor.
• How the cancer can spread throughout the body by getting into the blood stream.
• What radiation therapy is and how it works.
• What triggeres cancer to grow and how your lifestyle can effect you.

2 questions that i have are:

• Can you or do you have to get noncancerous tumor removed?
• Can you get a cancerous tumor on top of a noncancerous tumor?

I am interested in becoming a pharmacist or something in the medical field so i really enjoyed my job as the Pharmacologist.

One think i didn't like about this project is finding out that everything we do basically can trigger cancer cells in our body to react.  

Cancer

                                                        By: Miranda Clausen
5 Things I Learned

1. Cancers have stages
2. Metastasis is when the cancer spreads to other parts of the body
3. Not all tumors are cancerous
4. Normal cells can form into cancer cells
5. Benign is a non-cancerous tumor and malignant is a cancerous tumor

I liked that we were given a patient and a specific job. I learned more this way then I would have taking notes. I also liked that we worked in groups, but we got graded on what we did and not by what our group did.

I did not like that the project was due in such a short time.

1-2 Questions

Do all cancers run in the family?

Did all the patients survive their treatments?

Cancer

Five things I learned about cancer:
     1.) Cancer cells form from regular cells.
     2.) Cancer isn't confined to one area of the body at a time; it can travel. (metastasis)
     3.) Not all tumors are cancerous. The the difference is whether they are benign or malignant.
     4.) Cancer usually comes from a persons choice to live an unhealthy life. (junk food, lazy, smoking, etc.)
     5.) The immune system can't help fight cancer.

Two questions that I still have about cancer are:
     1.) Can cancer occur in every organ in the human body? (i.e. the eye)
     2.) Can injuries/stress cause cancer?

One thing I liked about the cancer unit is I learned a lot about how cancer forms and progresses.

One thing I disliked about the cancer unit is we had to work in teams that we weren't able to choose.

The five things I have learned from our cancer project/webquest are:

1. There are more than just cancer tumor. If its Malignant, it is cancerous, if its benign, its not cancerous.




2. When you have cancer, you can't necessarily just remove it, you have to treat it. If its benign, then you can just remove it.




3. I learned that Chemotherapy is more than just a common cancer treatment that makes you sick. You have to take an oral medication that kills both healthy cells and cancerous cells.


4. I learned what metastasis is. Its when the cancerous cells spread from areas apart from where the inital cancer started.


5. The final thing I learned is that if you are battling cancer, you will be in a much better position if you stay active and make sure you eat healthy. If you eat fatty foods, your body won't be strong enough to fight the cancer off.

One question of mine that wasn't answered was why cancer can be so deadly. Its only a bunch of cells gone wrong. Can't you just remove them and let your body continue mitosis with healthy cells? I guess I just don't get it.

I liked that we could learn about cancer a little more in depth, because all I really knew about it prior to the lesson was that it took many lives every year, and that depending on the cancer, there are a lot of people diagnosed with the many types of cancer.

I didn't like the fact that we had to present it all to the class in a group. Because when we got to the test, our pharmocologist hadn't done his job, so I didn't know too much about what treatment could be done or what the specific side effects were.

I learned five things from this cancer project that we did, and they are

1. There are two diffrent types of tumors benign which means the tumor is noncancerous and malignant which means the tumor is cancerous.



2. When you have cancer, you cna't necessarily just remove it, you have to treat it. If its beingn, then you can just remove it.



3. Metastasis is when the cancer travles to another place in your body.



4. The treatment chemotherapy is for almost anytype of cancer.



5. The immune system helps to fight cancer

Two questions that weren't answered are:

1. Can someone get lung cancer from only smoking.
2. What are the two most popular cancers that people get

One thing I liked/disliked

Liked: working in groups

Disliked: presenting

January 31, 2012 Cancer Blog Jeff Hulen

After researching cancer for a science project, I learned a lot about cancer and some facts that are important to know. Things I learned:
Metastasis is when cancer starts spreading to other parts of the body. It spreads by shedding of cancer cells off of a tumor or catches on to lymph-nodes which take it to other places. There is many other ways it spreads also.
There are cancer tumors and non-cancer tumors. Non-cancer tumors are known as benign. Cancerous tumors are called malignant tumors.
Many cancers such as prostate and pancreatic cancer, do not show symptoms until they are in an advanced stage. This means it is important to get regular check ups with your doctor and have certain tests done to check for cancer.
One common type of therapy to treat cancer is chemoradiation. I knew there was chemotherapy and radiation but I didn't know they could mix the two. It is where they give you chemotherapy either before or after radiation. This gets rid of cancer that was missed or make it easier for surgery.
Eating a colorful diet helps reduce your risk of cancer. This means eat lots of fruits and vegetables and stay away from pop.

One question I could not find the answer to is the survival rate after chemoradiation for pancreatic cancer. There was no certain percentage or number that I found.

The thing I liked most about researching cancer is I learned the symptoms of different types of cancer, what causes cancer, and what helps reduce a person's risk of cancer. Now I am aware of all of this and know how to stay healthy and identify cancer if symptoms ever show up.

Something I didn't like about the cancer project is it took a lot more thinking than most projects I have done in the past. I had to research a lot harder and know what everything I said meant. This was good because I learned more but I didn't like it because it took more work and thought.

Cancer

Cancer- Monica Kirkpatrick

Five things I learned

• Tumors are not Cancerous.
  
• There are many stages in cancer and once you get to the last stage there are no treatments that can help heal you or fight the cancer.
• Sodium nitrite is salt in preservatives ingredients(cold cuts)
• BMI means Body Mass Index
• That race is a risk factor to getting some types of cancer(Skin Cancer and Prostate Cancer)

1-2 Questions not answered

• If You have a tumor and you die from it, wouldn't that be cancerous? Or no?
• Radiations of electronics, are they risking our chances of getting cancer in the future?

1 thing I liked

• I liked how we were assigned a patient and were told to learn about them. We were given jobs. I learned more this way and how being healthy plays a big role in staying a live.

1 thing I didn't like

• The Webquest.
  

Cancer Blog

Cancer Blog

During this cancer unit, I learned a number of things about cancer. One was how cancer forms. I never really knew that it was a genetic mutation that caused cancer. As it turns out, the cause of cancer starts with the genes inside and not so much with the factors outside. Another thing I learned was how cancer spreads. I knew cancer could spread, but I found out that the process is called metastasis and happens in a way I hadn't thought of. The cancerous cells get into the blood stream and travel to other parts of the body. Somewhere along this journey, the attach to the wall of a blood vessel and make their way out into the surrounding tissues. This is how cancer can spread so quickly. I also found out that not all tumors are cancerous. When you get a tumor, it can be either malignant or benign. After a tumor is examined by a doctor, it can be named cancerous (malignant) or safe (benign). Having a tumor does not necessarily mean having cancer. The P53 gene was also new to me. Cancer forms due to a mutation on one of the many genes. However, mutations on the P53 gene are more likely to cause cancer than some other mutations. Problems with this gene can lead to cells not following the proper check points in the cell cycle. Another new thing to me was carcinogens. I had heard the word before, but I didn't know what it meant or what things would be concidered carcinogens. Carcinogens are chemicals that are linked to causing cancer. A lot of commonly seen things can be carcinogens such as asbestos, smoke, even some brands of chewing gum. This was one of the most important things I learned: cancer can be caused by a lot of simple things; you really need to watch your lifestyle.

Though this project answered most of my questions about cancer, it still left me wondering about some things. I still don't know how exactly genes mutate to form cancer or which genes mutated for which specific cancers. Granted, some cancers are still being researched and this information hasn't been found yet. Still, it would have been nice to know how the mutations happen. It also wasn't explained how certain foods or substances help your body fight off cancer; what they contained and how they fought off the disease.

I liked a lot of things about this project. What really clicked for me was the connection to real life. You were given a "patient" with a normal life that you had to diagnose with cancer. Seeing the different types of people that were all susceptible to the disease was really interesting. You learned the material, but you had something familiar to connect it to.

During this project, I didn't like the fact that we also had to do a webquest along with the specific cancer patient. It took some time away from working on the presentation. However, I really don't have anything else bad to say about this project. I enjoyed learning more about cancer, since I've heard so much about it.

Cancer

There was much learned in this unit. Things like:

• a cyclin is a protein in the body
• cells have checkpoints
• metastasis is when cancer moves through the body
• cancer can move through the body
• the difference between benign and malignant tumors
• how cancer cells are made

A question that wasn't answered was specific to a certain cancer: does melanoma run in the family?

Something good about this project is that people were graded over their own work, and not what someone else didn't do.

Something bad about this project is the short deadline. That applies pressure and some people get stressed under pressure.

cancer project

Our Science class recently completed and presented a project about cancer. For this project we split into groups of four or five and were given a fake patient to diagnose. My view on cancer was made much more clearly from this project. I learned that age, race, and in a few cases even gender increased the risk of getting cancer. Metastasis is the name for the process of which cancer spreads throughout the body, and each cancer has different stages which are based off of how far the cancer has spread. I also learned that men can get breast cancer. There were a couple questions that i had which didnt get answered. I was wondering which cancers have the lowest and highest survial rate, and also which kind of cancer is most commonly found around the world. I really enjoyed this project because it greatly increased my understanding of what cancer is and what it does.