In the U. S. National Cancer institutes Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database for 2006 said that the estimates show in all invasive cancer the total of 11,0280.000 ;for males it show the amount of 5,116,000 and for females 5,912,000. Many people need to understand that it is affecting us as humans. Also I came across the …show more content…
Unfortunately, I had a rude wakening when my sister was first diagnose with stage 4 cervical cancer. It was too late to do really anything she took her chemotherapy and radiation like she was advised too by her doctor. I try to stay optimistic and told her and my family that chemotherapy and radiation will work and that everything would be fine. Unfortunately, the cancer didn't regress and she died at age 29. My family and I didn't understand how could this happen, what is the cause of this. I am the only one in family that is a natural born citizen in America . My family wanted me to explain to them what this cancer is and I didn't know what it was. The only thing I knew was that it kills you once you have it. Shortly after, my sister death we were all still mourning over the loss in our family; then my mom found out that she too had this deadly disease. Unfortunately, she also was first diagnose with stage 4 cancer adenocarcinoma. I research what it was in wikiepedia and it states " Adenocarcinoma is a cancer of epithelia originating in glandular tissue. Epithelial tissue includes, but is not limited to, the surface layer of skin, glands and a variety of other tissue that lines the cavities and organs of the body." My own definition is that adenocarcinoma is cancer in your major primary organs your brain, lungs, liver , etc. No primary source that can be identified so then how can you treat the cancer. We