Cancer
- 5 of the things I learned about cancer this unit are:
- You get cancer when cell division goes wrong. If the chromosomes don't divide equally, the cell still keeps going, but at a faster rate and keeps going without stopping. Eventually, you get a lot of cells packing up on top of each other, that turns into a tumor.
- Not all tumors are cancerous, they're called benign. If they are cancerous then you call it malignant.
- When cancer spreads throughout the whole body its called Metastasis. By then you're in a advanced stage.
- There is a type of cancer called Inflammatory Breast Cancer. At first it looks like a spider bite, and most people don't really pay attention, but when it keeps growing they finally do. By then its usually too late and the person who had it dies very soon.(sometimes in 3 weeks) A girl as young as the age 12 died from this type of cancer.
- A lot of times you get a higher risk of a type of cancer depending on what your nationality is. (EX. If you're an African American, you have a higher chance of getting Prostate Cancer than other nationalities.
- 2 Questions that were not answered:
- If they found a cure for the cancer, why don't they use it now?
- Is it worse to go tanning outside or fake-baking?
- I liked how we did the project with individual jobs. It gave a chance to fully understand what we were learning about and do more research. I also liked how we got to choose a type of cancer on our own in the individual research. It made it more interesting because we wanted to know specifically about that type.
- One thing that I didn't like was that we got a little bit of time to do the group project, worksheet, AND individual cancer research. It made things a bit stressful.
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