Pancreatic Cancer is predicted to kill around thirty eight thousand people this year, and is the fourth leading cause of death from cancer. This type of cancer can be inherited, caused by smoking, or happen by chance, and it is only controllable if the pancreas is removed before the cancer has spread throughout the body. The reason why it is so lethal is due to the fact that usually when it occurs, there are no symptoms when it is most treatable.
Nearly 95% of the people who have this cancer will die from it. The risk of developing this cancer is one in seventy-one, and as people age, the chances of developing it increases. The average age in which it is diagnosed is seventy-two. It is more prevalent in males than females, due to the fact that males use tobacco more commonly than women.
Pancreatic cancer is caused by DNA mutations than can occur by chance, smoking or inheritance. By the time that Pancreatic cancer is discovered in the body, jaundice or advanced stages of abdominal pain may occur. Jaundice is a condition is which the eyes, skin and mucous membrane have a yellow discoloration due to the deposition of bile salts in these tissues.
The standard way of treating pancreatic cancer was chemotherapy but now, two new drugs that constrict the rate of blood flow of the tumor throughout the body are said to help fight off this disease. Research that is being done consists of developing a way of finding biomarkers so that simple urine test or blood test can be done.
As of now, there is no routine way of knowing whether or not a patient has a tumor in their pancreas, thus making pancreatic cancer a very deadly disease.
what was good: Again there are some good examples, statistics and such.
ReplyDeleteWhat needs improvement: you need to cite the website. Unless this a totaly made up paperand , thus unreliable, you need to talk about your sources.Where did you get this information from?
Perhaps you should talk about the DIDLS of the specific essay more. You shoud say Pncreatic is one of the most deadly forms of cancer and then use the text to prove.
First of all, where did you find this article? Who performed these studies? Sometimes the source of the piece helps identify certain biases. I would concentrate on using DIDLS techniques to explain the different moods, tones, or atmospheres present in the piece. It appears that you summarized the article, but did not analyze it. Just out of curiosity, why did you choose this article in particular? Is the topic of cancer treatment an interest of yours? Do you share the author's outlook on this topic? These are just a few questions to help you get started analyzing the article.
ReplyDeleteI have 5 letters for you my friend: DIDLS.
ReplyDeleteI can't say much for this essay because there isn't much to say about it, other than the fact that it seems to be completely filled with a summary and some of your own view points. Try actually analyzing what the author is doing and how he is doing it. Ask yourself, what is his point? How is he creating his point through DIDLS?