Informative Speech On Cancer

My uncle died this morning. He had cancer and he didn’t treat it until last January because he believed it was something else. His body fought for almost three years without any medical intervention or doctor’s consult. Afterwards, it fought for one last year under chemotherapy.
The truth is nothing can prepare you for loss. You think something as deadly as cancer won’t reach your family and then someone dies. In a way, it is incredible how your body can put up with until the moment comes when it can’t hold anymore and you die.
The thing is that you think you can be strong and bear someone’s death; however it is very difficult to believe it yourself when your body proves otherwise. First, you feel sick and dizzy, then you feel like everything is moving in slow motion and then you feel breathless.
I chose to talk about cancer, which is the reason I want to study medicine, but first I needed to make you understand that sometimes you will have to be a watcher and not a doer, and that sometimes you can’t save someone’s life. My uncle is the third relative who dies out of cancer in my family. I was eleven when the first one died and even at that time I felt such impotence because I couldn’t do anything to save her. For three times I thought of all the incredible technologic and scientific improvements and all the damage we have done to our world to make a “better society” and still, people die everyday out of deadly things like