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

Madison Koonce cancer answers/questions continued

Five things i learned were:
1) When skin peals it is because the suns rays completly killed that layer.
2) Men and women can get breast cancer.
3) Chemotherapy is used as a prevention of cancer as well as a treatment.
4) You can get genetic tests to see what your risk of gettinga certain cancer is.
5) I also learned that the air i breathe is full off toxins that can cause cancer, just like how some
people who are around second hand smoke get lung cancer as well.

Madison Koonce cancer answers/questions

I really liked this cancer project. I liked how we had one specific job, but still learned and had a little part in all of the other jobs as well. I thought i learned about the symptoms really well, because we had to find the cancer ourselves. The website that we had to look off of with questions we should answer, helped a lot. I also really liked how we had one specific cancer to each group and not just cancer in general.

There really wasn't too much that i disliked about this project, besides the fact that we didn't have a ton of teacher student time, because of conflicts. I wish we could have done a poster, or something else rather than a power point. Sometimes i felt as though i was doing more of someone else's job then they were as well.

I still have questions on why can certain foods trigger cancer, whats the difference between adisease and cancer, and what is the difference between a genetic cancer and a cancer that is formed?

Kirsten's Thoughts on the Cancer Project

Five things that I learned after doing this cancer project were:

1. There is no such thing as a safe tan. If you are outside or in a tanning bed the rays still could be harmful.
2. What carcinogens, chemicals that are known to cause cancer, means.
3. The difference between the rate of speed that the cancer cell divide and normal cells divide and how much faster the cancer cell spread.
4. When checkpoints don't see the mutation and let the cancer cell continue through it's cycle.
5. The things that you do in your life can impact the chances that you have to get cancer. If you have a poor diet and are overweight you have a greater risk then people that eat healthy and exercise regularly.

Questions that I have:

1. What does Benign and Malignant mean?

One thing that I liked:

1. I really liked trying to give someone the best chance to live and help out the patient and the family members. Also I enjoyed using google documents.

One thing that I didn't like:

1. That some people didn't do their slides so you didn't get to know that information on your patient.