Cancer Blog

5 things i learned

1. I Learned about the different stages of colorectal cancer.
2. I learned about the age groups that will most likely be affected.
3. I learned how cancer cells are different from normal cells.
4. I learned how cancer cells mult. alot faster then normal.
5. I learned how how the cancer can spread to different parts of the body.

i dont really have any questions but i dont really understand how the cells dont have checkpoints.

I liked this because i got to learn about different cancers and how they affected people.

Shelby's Cancer Blog

5 Things Learned:

1. About the different types of treatments for cancer. I only knew about radiation and chemotherapy.
2. I learned about the meiosis structure and the transformation of reproductive cells.
3. I really didn't even know exactly what cancer was! I learned it's when an abnormal cell duplicates at a rapid pace and creates tumors.
4. I learned all about different types of cancers. My cancer was leukemia, which I had no idea what it affected, or even was. But I learned it's when your bone marrow stops producing red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. This can cause extremely serious issues including it being more easy to internally or externally bleed and get infections.
5. What haploids (half) and diploids (times 2) are.

Unanswered questions:

1. If you could do both Radiation and Chemotherapy

2. Can plants get cancers?

I liked the group activity! I think it's always fun to work together without a teacher sometimes to find things out on our own... I also enjoy those kinds of activities rather than taking note after note after note. I feel I absorb the information better.

I didn't so much enjoy not doing as many experiments with cancer! I actually enjoy getting in there and doing labs. I love the visuals, and I would have really liked that.

Uhh..Cancer project blog?? --Bergndi;)

*While doing our "Cancer Projects" i learned many things! So, ive composed a short list.
1. Not all tumors are cancerous. For exampple, if you have a Benign tumor, its not cancerous. However, if you have a Malignant tumor...well you have cancer:/

2.Leukemia isnt just for children. Many adults have this disease too!

3.Chemotherapy & Radiation are not the only treatments for Cancer. Theres also Surgery, hormone therapy and more!

4.Some sorts of Soda can cause cancer? Wierd..
No wonder were not supposed to drink it..

5. When were born, we have cancer cells in our body no matter what..! Scary!!!!!

--Hmm..Do i have any questions??
Not really. Only how does a cell skip a checkpoint??

--I liked this project! It was interesting learning about all the different types of cancer and ways to prevent it!

--Things i didnt like? Well...i thought this assignment was a tad ibt depressing to be quite honest..

Unit Blog, by Meg Trumper(:

5 Things that I learned during this unit--

1. I learned that there are various ways to treat cancer..I thought that there was only chemotherapy for some reason. But, now I know that there is chemo, radiation, surgery, and muuuch more.


2. I learned that you are at a much greater risk of getting melanoma if you are older, and your have pailer skin.


3. I learned that there are two seperate kinds of cellular division..meiosis or mitosis. Meiosis is with sexual reproduction and then Mitosis witch is like making more skin cells.


4. I learned that with cellular division there alot of steps. Like Interphase, Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, and Cytokinesis.


5. I learned that there are much more things to cancer and cellular division, than I could ever think of..and I'm sure there is much more to learn about that we havent already.

2 Questions I have about this unit--

1. How did the first scientists know about how cells divide?


2. How does the cancer develope in certain areas? Like why does it happen in the breasts, or in the lung, or the stomach?

1 thing I didnt like about this unit--

• I liked this unit a lot and there really wasnt anything I disliked--Umm..what didnt I like? The fact that cancer exists.

1 thing I did like--

• I liked learning about cancer because I just lost my grandma from it in December, and I liked knowing how it happened in her body.

Things i learned-- Lena Westra

I learned that the older you get the more of a risk you have to get cancer.
I learned that Colorectal cancer is the most preventable cancer.
I learned that Colorectal caner is the 3rd most commen cancer in men and women.
I learned that a bad diet and little excersise can be a risk of getting cancer.
I learned that kids need to start wearing sunscreen now because in 2o years or so you could have a greater chance of skin cancer.

How does cells skip a checkpoint?

I liked learning about the different types of cancer and what are risks and symptoms of them, and also haveing to be the "doctor" and figure the stuff out our selfs.

I didnt like being in groups, because you have to depend on them to get their stuff done too, and you have to all kind of share information and if they didnt research their part of it then it made it harder.

Cancer Project

Some things I learned when we were doing our cancer projects is;

• The older you were the more likely you were to get colorectal cancer
• Your diet and how much you exercise was a big part in how bad your cancer is
• There are many different cancers
• Cancer cells don't die on their own
• You already have cancer cells in your body.

A question i have is, How do the checkpoints stop working?

I liked this project becuase it was fun.

Something i didnt like about it was that i didnt know what to put on all of my slides.

THINGS THAT I LEARNED:

I learned that smoking is not the only thing that cases cancer and that there are lots of other risk factors.

I learned that radiation therapy is not as effective as most treatments like surgery.

I learned that just because Melanoma first effects a mole it is uncommon and very deadly.

I learned that cancer can move it does not just pop up in random places.

I learned that cancer can be removed.

QUESTIONS:

How does a cell skip a checkpoint?

LIKES & DISLIKES:

I liked hearing about the possible cancer cures.

I disliked the fact that extreme overexposure to sunlight can lead to cancer. Because I play on the golf team.

Madeline's Cancer Unit Blog

Five facts that I learmed from our cancer unit were:

• What Chemotherapy does to get rid of the cancer
• How cancer is developed
• What metastasis is and how it works
• Why cells divide incorrectly
• What carcinogens are

One question that I had that wasn't answered dureng this unit was: What is a bone marrow transplant and how can it help fight off cancer?

Something I liked about our cancer project was the general idea of the project. Everyone having different jobs and different things to reasearch was just a great idea!

One thing that I didn't like about the project is that I felt as if I didn't know for sure what exactly to include in my portion of the presentation.

Cancer Unit

Five things learned:

• Cancer can run in the family.
• You can get skin cancer from being outside too much even when it is cloudy.
• An unhealthy is a major risk factor for getting cancer.
• Everyone is born with cancer.
• Coke can potentially cause cancer.

I like knowing more of the risk factors for cancer so I can try to stay away from those and eat healthier.

I didnt like how fast the cancer projects went by.

What i Learned

I learn a lot of things from this Cancer Project. Some of the things I learned from this are:

1)Malignant- a tumor that is cancerous

2)Benign- a tumor that is not cancerous

3)Carcinogens-chemicals that are know to either stimulate cancer or cause cancer

4)Metastasis- how cancer spreads through the body

5)Cancer cells produce much more rapidly then normal cells.

some things that i like about this project was using the Google docs and being able to see how your partners are doing in the project and another would be that you can chat on there if your partners are on at the same time as you.

i think the only question that i have that didn't get answered was why do cancer cells reproduce faster then the normal cell? i know that cancer cells don't have certain checkpoints but do they only miss that checkpoint or do they just reproduce with no checkpoints at all?

Tayler's science blog

Five thing I learned:
1. if you have family history, you have a more likely chance of developing cancer
2.moles can change color and size when you have skin cancer
3.you need more exercise than usual
4.even Dogs can get Melanoma
5. all the cell cycles have different names

what i liked:using the ipad/computers

what i hated: the presentation