Argumentative Essay On Childhood Cancer

This organization is improving society because “[t]he breakthroughs here have influenced treatments and saved children’s lives around the world.” (stjude.org). Supporting St. Jude helps them achieve their mission and research. St. Jude also shares the discoveries they find, allowing other doctors and scientist around the world to use this information to build on or save more people. Supporting them additionally allows families who are struggling with a sick kid to not have to worry about paying all the expensive medical bills. The author recommends supporting this organization because she think it’s a great way to find and better scientific research. Furthermore, it helps kids in need and parents who don’t have money. For example, an eight year old girl named Ainsley who had a swollen lymph node was referred to St. Jude because it wouldn’t go down. Ainsley and her family soon found out she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma and went through 98 weeks of

Most of the patients are treated on a continuing outpatient basis as part of ongoing research programs. All patients are followed for 10 years or more after active treatment ends. This is part of the St. Jude LIFE & After Completion of Therapy Clinic Presented by Kmart. After Completion of Therapy (ACT) program is the largest long-term follow-up clinic for childhood cancer patients in the United States. St. Jude is also studying more than 2,900 survivors through the St. Jude LIFE research study. The hospital has 78 beds for patients that require hospitalization. Children from all 50 states and around the world have been treated at St.

Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital opened its facility in 1962.  The hospital's mission is to “advance cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment”.  This hospital is very unique in the fact that no family is ever turned  away from services for inability to pay.  No family ever receives a bill from St. Jude.  It’s not only a hospital that treats childhood cancer but also does research in hopes for a cure for cancer.  The research that is done at the hospital is shared at no cost around the world in hopes for finding a cure.  Through this research at St. Jude hospital the childhood cancer survival has increased from 20% survival rate to 80% in the past years.  It’s also unique in the fact that it treats children from all states and from around the world.  Unfortunately, there are approximately 7,800 patients each

In the 1800’s, a cancer diagnosis was viewed as the equivalent of death (Holland, 2002). In this day and age, there was no known cause or cure, and it was considered inhumane to reveal the diagnosis to the patient. In a constantly changing and advancing society, this ideology was transformed as the result of an accumulation of technological advances, education, and research initiative. This led to the acceptance of the notion of cancer worldwide. As cancer continued to become more prevalent, health care providers and researchers were forced to further investigate the biology, development, and treatment of cancer. The interaction of cancer outside the realm of molecular and cellular biology became apparent in the mid 1900’s and has since found importance in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, and psychosocial oncology (Holland, 2002).

Significance: This speech is relevant to my audience because the impact of such a significant diagnosis is a life changing and emotional event for families and the need for direction and guidance at such a critical time in their child’s life is essential. My audience should understand that providing their child with early intervention therapy will impact their child’s life indefinitely.

Sitting in class looking everywhere and hearing everything, but you sit there wondering, “What’s wrong with me?” All the other children are sitting still looking straight. The feeling of being abnormal because being different is wrong. No parent wants this for their child, logically the parents think it’s the right decision to medicate their child. Children should not be allowed to take prescribed medications due to how it impacts their mental state, body, and relationships with others. Medicating children does not fix them.

Many children, sadly, are faced with disease and illness every day. Research has shown that with the addition of a Child Life Program to a hospital setting, children in need of care have better outcomes and their hospital experience improves exponentially. My cousin and his family benefitted from the Child Life Program at Penn State Hershey Medical Center Children’s Hospital. My interview with my aunt and cousin demonstrates that Child Life Specialists definitely can make a difference when a family encounters a child’s illness. The support and care of the Child Life Specialists assist not only the child and the parents, but the entire family. They work as liaisons with the entire medical team to relieve the stress and anxiety the hospital and

(Boys name)’s friend, twelve years old, was also charged, for careless use of a firearm. Both were released, but they will never not feel guilty again. People are terrorized by this tragic event. This has such a big impact on all of us. A boy one year younger than you and me died because of careless storage of a firearm. This kid did not deserve any of this. (Boys name)’s friend, the one who shot him, stated, that "He 's a child that listens to everything the teacher says. He has perfect attendance at school. He wasn 't anything like a child that 's being reckless or anything." This child did not deserve to die. Not only this child but many children are dying every year from accidents with firearms. Slate, an online news site claims that in

Most people avoid thinking of the idea of having one of their future children born with a genetic disorder. But this is not a realistic thought. A study made by the National Down Syndrome Society (2014) found out that about one in every seven hundred babies in the United States is born with Down syndrome, a chromosomal disorder caused by an error during the cell division. This results in an extra copy of the chromosome 21 which alters the brain and body development. People with Down syndrome are born with intellectual disability, some characteristic facial features and cognitive delays. It has been demonstrated that the possibility of a child being born with Down syndrome increases as the age of the mother increases, and clearly women have delayed their maternity especially

Approximately 100,000 children die of cancer before the age of 15 in the world every day.

One of, if not the most important issue regarding child welfare is the role parents play in their children’s lives. A major issue facing the protection of children is lack of proper parenting education. According to research by the National Children’s Alliance “More than 3 million American children are investigated for child maltreatment each year." The site also states that “Nearly 700,000 children are abused in the U.S annually" and even more alarming statics is that “In 2016, an estimated 1,750 children died from abuse and neglect in the United States.” A major part of this issue stems from parents who overwhelmed or are underprepared to be parents lacking the proper resources and parental knowledge to take care of their children. This is

Growing up my parents ran a daycare in(at) our house so I was always surrounded by children (the good and the bad). My parents were the type who had no problem enforcing physical punishments such as spanking, the flick of the hand, a pop on the mouth, etc. All these punishments are within the definition of acceptable punishment as stated by Oklahoma law (qtd. ---). They practiced this on me, my siblings, and the daycare kids (with parental consent). In different instances, this would come up in conversations and the reactions were for the majority “that’s awful” or “poor thing” or “I can’t understand how anyone could do such a thing” and I never fully understood why. My mother was raised with an abusive father and a compromising mother (who too was dealing with the abuse), so I have seen how a negative experience can have a positive impact/result (message) on a person/child. I have now grown a curiosity to understand the different limits of child abuse and believe what my parents did benefitted me and any other children who received this discipline. With that in mind, I am going to define, and explore different aspects of child abuse with some modern examples.

There are many common diseases that modify the functions of the human body. Neurological diseases, for example, could affect anyone at any time. The worst kinds of neurological diseases are those which can affect the functions of the human brain. A well-known example is autism, and it has become a widespread disease among children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 of every 68 children in the U.S would have autism spectrum disorder; moreover, the study shows that 1 in 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls would have autism spectrum disorder (1). Autism is a disorder in the nerves that makes the human brain socially inactive, and in order to understand it, several main aspects must be considered.

We live in a complex, unpredictable world, filled with an array of family styles and personalities. Whether or not we recognize it, the family in which one is raised or currently resides plays a pivotal role in their development and opportunities. While we should not blame our circumstance on where we came from, it is crucial that we understand how our childhood influences why we are the way we are. One phenomenon that affects several families, particularly ones with low-income, is parentification. Parentification, also known as the role-reversal of a parent and a child, is not inherently harmful for a child, but it is important to look at the situation objectively and consider the risk-factors.

It seems that people assess the state of public to go for children with high-capacity public schools came with a positive result meaning it is the outcome of 53% agree to go kids included those for public schools meaning it is more than OK half of this opinion. For example, Nicholas Vujicic was a man without any limbs in his body and despite this handicap he was very successful in his studies and graduated from the school decided to enter Griffith University in Australia to study by accounting and despite all the people encouraged by his mother to become a person full of vitality and fulfill all his wishes became Nicholas Responsible for two companies and their management. If this person is disabled, how are the common people or those who are healthy? Despite the lack of parental consent for their child with a disability go to regular school, but it's very useful for those kids because the child will feel that he is no different from the