Personal Reflection

This entire cancer project has been a real important to me. Before I started this project, cancer was just a disease, something that popped up in national geographic. Now its one of the most important things in my entire life. The most influential part of this entire experience was the interviews of people affected by cancer. One man who suffered from breast cancer, wanted to make sure that we all understood one thing- Live today, because you don't know what will happen tomorrow. A statement like that is so true when uncertainty is around every corner, ready to strike the next innocent guy to walk down the street. Cancer doesn't care if you are a celebrity, it doesn't care if your homeless, and it doesn't care if your healthy, it just attacks. This assignment also changed my views on the severity of cancer. I could not believe that fifteen hundred people pass away everyday, not every year, every day. Fifteen hundred out of six million are not the best odds. But still, there is no point of living in fear behind the Shadow of cancer. During this project I also learned a lot about what the disease is. For instance, I learned that cancer cells are in a way invincible, instead of dying off after about fifty duplications like normal cells, cancer cells never stop multiplying. Its that kind of small details that make cancer such a formidable fighter. Overall (even though it was a ton of work), I am glad that Mr. G assigned this project, and I think that every child needs to be informed about cancer so that one day maybe a cure can be found. Thank you Mr. G, I think this was a great choice of a project to do.