• I learned that not all tumors are cancerous when it is cancerous is is called malignet and when its not is in benin.
• I learned that meiosis produces four sex cells.
• I learned that females can only use one out of the four cells produced by meiosis.
• I learned that cancer is the rapid production of aq cell that is bad or a cell that either skipped a step in the cell cycle or something went wrong in the cycle.
• I learned that meiosis creates different combinations of our chromsomes so no two cells are alike once they have gone through meiosis.
• what is the body mass index?
• I liked mostly everything about this project
• the only thing that i didnt like was having to use the slow computers.

During our cancer unit I learned several new things. I learned that not all tumors are cancerous. If a tumor is cancerous, then it's malignant; if it's not, then it's benign. I also learned those terms to describe the type of tumor it is. Another new thing I discovered is that there is a gene in cells called P53 and when this particular gene has a mutation, it leads to cancer. It affects the checkpoints in cells which where the cell pauses in the cell cycle to make sure there are no problems. Whenever there is, the cell automatically will either fix any problems or mutations or else kill itself. When the P53 is defective, these checkpoints don't occur or work. Also I learned what carcinogens are. Carcinogens are cancer causing chemicals. Cancer typically is not completely fatal or horrible or terribly painful until it reaches a stage it can proceed with metastasis. Metastasis is the last newly learned thing I will explain although I learned more than this. Metastasis is a process where cancer cells travel through blood vessels to other locations in the body. They then attach themselves to the walls of the vessels and eventually make their way through the wall into the tissue of an organ and continue reproducing more cancer cells there. That is how cancer spreads to other areas of the body and gets worse. One thing that I really liked about this unit was how we all got to act as specialists to diagnose a pretend patient. We had to evaluate the symptoms and problems our patients were having and do research to decide what possible cancers they might have and what tests to recommend they take to find out. Once the cancer was confirmed we all had our own jobs to do to help treat the patient or educate the patient on how to help themselves and explain everything that was happening to them. It was a great experience to act as though we were part of something like that and know what all happens and get a feel for how it works. I'm confident that I know a lot more about cancer now and what it actually means to have cancer. Something that I didn't like as much about this unit was there were times when I felt it was a little too independent. We got help if we ever asked, but I personally didn't feel completely confident about what I was doing. There's no one else in the class who has the same cancer as your small group but no one in your group has the same job as you. On top of all the other classes we have and the work we do for them, I guess it just felt overwhelming. Over all it was still an enlightening experience that was well worth it. Now that the unit is over, I still have a few questions: What is all being done to find better treatments for cancer? How much time, energy, and money is being put into research? Besides donating money to random cancer fundraisers, what can I do to help any part of the cancer situation personally? What are the chances of me or any of my friends getting cancer? How many people in the world are estimated to be affected directly by cancer? There's still a lot left to answer.

Cancer Nate Sams 2/2/12

During our cancer unit i learned about how a tumor can be malignant, cancerous, and benign, not cancerous. Also, I learned that family history can play a large role in whether or not you can get most types of cancers. There is also a chance of getting cancer on your lifestyle choices like whether you smoke or drink alcohol, you can get cancer by being overweight for cancers like prostate, and pancreatic. Lastly I learned that metastasis is how cancer spreads throughout the body. 2 questions that were unanswered during the unit were when the cancer spreads is there a certain place each kinds of cancer attaches like when breast cancer spreads does it go to a specific other part of the body? My other question was what kinds of cancer can infants get. 1 thing that i enjoyed during the unit was the independent study of a cancer of our choice. What I disliked was the webquest.

Cancer

This is what I learned about cancer as a result of our projects. I did not know that males could get breast cancer. I didn't know that Asians were the least likely to get melanoma. I learned about what mascectomies and lumpectomies were, and the differences of both. I also didn't know that cancer was capable of moving into the bloodstream and traveling to other parts of the body. This is called metastasis. I didn't know what carcinogens were, either. They're cancer-causing agents. Here are a couple questions I still have about cancer. How many people in the world are estimated to have some type of cancer? What is a male's chance of getting breast cancer? What I liked about this project was the fact that we didn't have an outline that told us exactly what to do. We had very general instructions and we weren't walked through everything. What I didn't like about this project was the lack of time we were given to complete it.

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.