how can my school report about cancer be better then others and how can i find reaserches about cancer?

Answer 1

You could start by visiting the American Cancer Society website. Try to figure out what their latest campaign is and make that the center of your paper. It will help to give urgency and relevance to your paper. Also, consider gathering some local (State, City) statitistics. You can probably find something relatively recent by searching the archives of your local newspaper. This can usually be done at a school or local library for free. Again, adding a local angle will make the information more interesting for the reader.

Answer 2

Do research focused on teenagers and young adults with cancer and the difficulites they face. They are a unique and overlooked group with very special needs and problems and they are often invisible in the medical community. A teenager is not really a pediatric patient, but neither are they adults . . they have no oncologist that specialize in the problems that they face. Most normal teens are learning how to separate from their parents and move on with future plans. Teens with cancer are often undergoing time consuming treatment and face isolation from their peers and the real fear that they may not have a future. All the fears that a normal teen has are suddenly realized in the teen with cancer. They lose their hair, they fear they are no longer attractive, due to treatment they lose their fertility at a young age, many find school work hard to complete, insurance and finding jobs become difficult if not impossible (who wants to hire someone whose had cancer). I could go on and on. Do the research . . what is available for young people with cancer? Many who complete their treatments find out that they have secondary ailments and perhaps life long disabilities. At the moment there are few options in place for them.

My son is now 19 years old and has been fighting a rare and aggressive abdominal sarcoma for 22 months. When he was first diagnosed he was in a children's hospital. He was six feet tall and did not fit in the beds on the pediatric floor. They had to find an extension for the bed. None of the hospital gowns fit him either . . they were too small . . When he had an episode where he couldn't catch his breath (he had blood clots to the lung) they tried to put a pediatric mask over his adult sized face. And, one time when he needed blood drawn and couldnt use the central line, they tried to draw blood using a babies needle. . it took about twenty minutes of trying to draw the blood (painful!!)

When he had an operation at an adult hospital he got just the opposite treatment . . he was placed on a floor with elderly patients. The place was okay, but devoid of things he was used to in the childrens hospital . . no access to teen games, books, films, etc . . no one his age anywhere nearby . . and nurses who were used to treating adult patients. At 17 years old he felt really alone.

So there are many issues that need to be addressed by the medical community on how best to serve this population of patients.

Here are a few sites where you can read about what it is like to be a teen or young adult with cancer:

Planet Cancer
http://www.planetcancer.org/html/index.php

Young Adults with Cancer
http://www.vitaloptions.org/yawc.htm

Teens Living with Cancer
http://www.teenslivingwithcancer.org/

Sloan Kettering -For Teens Only
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/64221.cfm

Teen Info on Cancer
http://www.click4tic.org.uk/Home

Ulman cancer fund
http://www.ulmanfund.org/

Teens get cancer too
http://www.dukehealth.org/articles/teens_get_cancer_too

Good luck with your report.

Answer 3

...and make sure to use a spell and grammar checker. Or, have someone knowledgeable in this area proof read your final draft. There's nothing worse than going through a whole lot of work and missing out on 10% for this reason.
When deciding what to write, don't bite off more than you can chew! Good luck!!

Answer 4

Maybe you can find a person who has had cancer and would be willing to tell you "first hand" about their experience. I think this would make it more "real" than just research on the computer. It makes it personal. Godloveya.

Answer 5

I'm not sure how it can be better, but I know a good website for cancer information is the Susan B. Komen Foundation.

Answer 6

Talk about the future of cancer therapy....

Google: Gene Therapy Cancer

Here is a good link on it....

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/gene

Answer 7

Try Google Scholar for research papers.

Answer 8

Try Webmd or Wikipedia

Answer 9

compete only against yourself,...go to google and finish your reort.