Informative outline on breast cancer
Title: Breast Cancer Awareness
Purpose: To help classmates be aware of this potentially life threatening cancer.
Thesis statement: Breast cancer can be fatal and has effected millions of people around the world, so it’s important to be knowledgeable when it comes to a health condition that may affect you or your love ones.
Introduction
Guess what month it is? It’s October… Which means that it’s also breast cancer awareness month. Those of us who watch sports during the month of October always see the football players wearing pink, and that’s because of breast cancer. I’m sure many of us have heard or know someone who’s had breast cancer. I know I have, but I never fully grasped what it really was until my sophomore year of High School when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. That’s right, I said “second time.” The first time, was when I was four years old and I was too young to understand, but the second time I was the one to take care of her. Statistically, “about 1 of 8 women develop breast cancer invasively of her lifetime” stated by breastcancer.org. Breast cancer effects men, but it’s less likely for it to happen to them than women. Breast cancer is well known by many organizations, and there are a lot of individuals who support this cancer’s research. By analyzing what this cancer is, the symptoms of breast cancer, and how to prevent this from being life threatening, may eventually save your life down the road.
I. What exactly is Breast Cancer?
A. According to Cancer.gov last undated in 2012, breast cancer is a type of “cancer that forms in the tissues of the breast.”
B. There are different kinds of breast cancer depending on what cell in the breast has turned into cancer. Common types of breast cancer found on the Susan G. Komen website last updated in 2013 are…
B.1. Ductal carcinoma.
a) Most common kind of breast cancer.
b) Begins in the cells that line the milk ducts.
B.2. Lobular Carcinoma.
B.2.a) Also common
Purpose: To help classmates be aware of this potentially life threatening cancer.
Thesis statement: Breast cancer can be fatal and has effected millions of people around the world, so it’s important to be knowledgeable when it comes to a health condition that may affect you or your love ones.
Introduction
Guess what month it is? It’s October… Which means that it’s also breast cancer awareness month. Those of us who watch sports during the month of October always see the football players wearing pink, and that’s because of breast cancer. I’m sure many of us have heard or know someone who’s had breast cancer. I know I have, but I never fully grasped what it really was until my sophomore year of High School when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. That’s right, I said “second time.” The first time, was when I was four years old and I was too young to understand, but the second time I was the one to take care of her. Statistically, “about 1 of 8 women develop breast cancer invasively of her lifetime” stated by breastcancer.org. Breast cancer effects men, but it’s less likely for it to happen to them than women. Breast cancer is well known by many organizations, and there are a lot of individuals who support this cancer’s research. By analyzing what this cancer is, the symptoms of breast cancer, and how to prevent this from being life threatening, may eventually save your life down the road.
I. What exactly is Breast Cancer?
A. According to Cancer.gov last undated in 2012, breast cancer is a type of “cancer that forms in the tissues of the breast.”
B. There are different kinds of breast cancer depending on what cell in the breast has turned into cancer. Common types of breast cancer found on the Susan G. Komen website last updated in 2013 are…
B.1. Ductal carcinoma.
a) Most common kind of breast cancer.
b) Begins in the cells that line the milk ducts.
B.2. Lobular Carcinoma.
B.2.a) Also common
References: National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. (2012). Retrieved October 20, 2013, from http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/ Susan G. Komen. (2013). Retrieved October 20, 2013, from http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/UnderstandingBreastCancer.html American Cancer Society. (2013). Retrieved October 20, 2013, from Better Business Bureau website: http://www.cancer.org/healthy/morewaysacshelpsyoustaywell/breastcancer?gclid= CMzg9-X_qboCFUXhQgod9kQAng National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. (2013). Retrieved October 20, 2013, from http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast