Cancere Treatments - Taming the Tyrant
Cancere Treatments - Taming the Tyrant
One of the deadliest, un-curable, and common disease, which our nation is plagued with, is cancer. Cancer accounts for one out of four deaths in the United States (Elliot). There are two fields of information concerning this disease, the traditional medical routine of radiation and chemotherapy; and there is also the alternative use of shark cartilage. Due to the unsuccessful results of medical treatments alone, I believe that alternative forms of treatment will become more popular and accepted in the medical world. Upon this acceptance the combination of alternative and medical treatments will over come the cancerous tyrant.
This paper is going to take you through the diagnosis, treatment, investigations, and healing of a fictitious character, Amy and her husband Adam. Amy has gone to her family doctor for an annual checkup, the doctor suspects cancer, so blood work is taken. The results announce that she in fact is in the thirty-three percentile of woman who the American Cancer Society states will be diagnosed with cancer. Amy’s doctor informs her of the treatment, which she will undergo; surgery followed by radiation and chemotherapy. No other option is given, so Amy consents.
In preparing for this battle against cancer, Amy and her husband begin to read about the therapy she will undergo. She found that the article “Whatever it Takes” reported the following, “ David Rosenthal, an MD and president of the American Cancer Society, reported that overall cancer mortality rates had decreased an average of 0.5% each year since 1991…(Elliot)” This was a little encouraging to Amy. She thought, “ I guess medical technology has found a way to begin increasing the mortality rate of cancer patients”. While Amy was at the library obtaining information concerning her treatment, she noticed books in a section entitled “ Alternative Medicine”. She did not approach the section because she had not really heard much about these types of treatments and, quite frankly, they frightened her. She perceived them to be barbaric and untraditional.
The first step to Amy’s fight against cancer was removing the cancerous tumor with surgery. Once the tumor was removed she began her first treatment of radiation. The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center’s website OncoLink, describes radiation as “a type of high energy that comes from special machines (i.e. X-ray machines) or radioactive sources. When used at high...