Cancer
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Well with our technology, the surgeon is able to tell immediately which nodes have
cancer.
The patient has cancer, you want to know if the lymph nodes have
cancer
even before you go in.
In the setting of prostate cancer, up to 60 percent of men after prostate
cancer
surgery may have urinary incontinence and erectile disfunction.
But you know what, these little nerves are so small, in the context of prostate cancer, that they are actually never seen.
Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the
cancer
is.
And doctors and scientists knew all we do about public health measures, surgery techniques, DNA sequencing,
cancer
research and treatment?
Now I'm not saying that if you eat grilled chicken that's not marinated, you're definitely going to catch
cancer
and die.
And then came the summer after my freshman year, when my grandfather passed away due to
cancer.
So, armed with all the wisdom of freshman year biology, I decided I wanted to do
cancer
research at 15. Good plan.
So ovarian
cancer
is one of those cancers that most people don't know about, or at least don't pay that much attention to.
But yet, it's the fifth leading cause of
cancer
deaths among women in the United States.
In fact, one in 70 women will be diagnosed with ovarian
cancer.
Chemotherapy, one of the most effective ways used to treat
cancer
today, involves giving patients really high doses of chemicals to try and kill off
cancer
cells.
But here's the problem: sometimes patients become resistant to the drug, and then years after they've been declared to be
cancer
free, they come back.
So we wanted to figure out how these ovarian
cancer
cells are becoming resistant to this drug called Cisplatin.
So I walked up to see her in my lunch break, and my doctor said she was very sorry to tell me that I had breast
cancer.
But still not wanting to believe it, I said, "Now, malignant carcinoma, you're sure that means cancer?"
Back at work, I handed over the urgent things that needed to be done while I was having more tests to see if my
cancer
had spread.
I was thinking about how I was going to tell my family and friends that I had
cancer.
And I was figuring out how I was going to tell my mother, who had herself had breast
cancer
when she was pregnant with me.
But I also didn't want her to have to relive her
cancer
experience.
So I started to look into what an employer is required to do when someone presents with a
cancer
diagnosis.
I discovered that under Australian law,
cancer
is considered a disability.
I knew that from the time I left the
cancer
care unit, I had about four hours before this fog screen would come down and I would start to be sick.
And as I was working from home, I was thinking about how employers should be applying this concept of reasonable adjustments in our current age, where one in two Australian men and women will be diagnosed with
cancer
by the age of 85.
The toolkit provides a framework for those diagnosed, their managers, their carers and their coworkers to have conversations about
cancer
and the work support available.
But the difference in accepting this particular defeat is that sometimes, if
cancer
has won, if there's death and we have no choice, then grace and acceptance are necessary.
We shopped double coupons and layaway and consignment stores, and when she got sick with stage four breast
cancer
and could no longer work, we even applied for food stamps.
And once our lives are touched by cancer, we quickly learn that there are basically three weapons, or three tools, that are available to fight the disease: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
And they use low-intensity electric fields to fight
cancer.
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