This article is about the lack of any substantial information to find the cure for cancer.
Gina Kolata, the speaker and the author of this article, reviewed a cancer patient, Ms. Phyllis Kutt, who is the audience, recieves compassion for her reoccuring cancer.
Ms. Kutt is one of the many victims who suffers from difficult rehabilitation, and years later she still needs to keep going because her cancer is now beginning to spread throughout her body.
The occasion is the "promise" President Obama made which is to cure cancer, which is included in his stimulus package to fund research for a cure.
However, President Nixon made a similar promise that in 1976 cancer would be cured. This just goes to show the negligence and the continual "normalcy" people feel towards cancer.
The tone in this article is aggravated patience, that despite everything that the cancer patients suffer, internally and externally, they still have to wait patiently while they continue to struggle.
The subject of this article is to point out the importance of this issue and how it personally effects the patients. Ms. Kutt is rarely greeted with a smile, but is stared down due to her baldness because of the chemotherapy.
Cancer patients are almost treated like another race, and that definitely says something that there are enough people with cancer to make a minority - maybe soon a majority, unfortunately.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Anti Cancer, Introduction
Much like the Cancer Pain Sourcebook, the introduction in David Servan-Schreiber's book is quite explanatory itself.
The subject is about the author's shock about his just discovered brain cancer, and how he felt seperated from the common way of life, his depressing conviction that followed him for several years.
Much to the author's dismay, he feared early death, and he felt that his dreams were dashed now that he became a cancer patient.
He can relate to his audience, many other cancer patients, who feel isolated by many people living their lives without a glance towards the future -- or at least their deaths.
The author speaks as a cancer patient, being that he was one, and connects with his readers emotionally through his vivid descriptions.
The occasion starts with the author's initial shock of discovering his brain cancer, and then speeds up to 16 years later when he started writing this book.
The tone of the introduction is at first dismay, but then turns to determination. This determination is what guided the author to find the best way to deal with his cancer but still maintain a normal life.
This author truly understood the feelings of his fellow cancer patients, and tried to make a difference for them by finding the most natural way to heal - through the body itself.
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The subject is about the author's shock about his just discovered brain cancer, and how he felt seperated from the common way of life, his depressing conviction that followed him for several years.
Much to the author's dismay, he feared early death, and he felt that his dreams were dashed now that he became a cancer patient.
He can relate to his audience, many other cancer patients, who feel isolated by many people living their lives without a glance towards the future -- or at least their deaths.
The author speaks as a cancer patient, being that he was one, and connects with his readers emotionally through his vivid descriptions.
The occasion starts with the author's initial shock of discovering his brain cancer, and then speeds up to 16 years later when he started writing this book.
The tone of the introduction is at first dismay, but then turns to determination. This determination is what guided the author to find the best way to deal with his cancer but still maintain a normal life.
This author truly understood the feelings of his fellow cancer patients, and tried to make a difference for them by finding the most natural way to heal - through the body itself.
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Questions and Comments please! :)
The Cancer Pain Sourcebook, Introduction
To get to know this book better and it's backround, the introduction is always the first place to start.
The introduction states one major fear that all cancer patients fear is pain, more so a painful death.
To begin, the audience is obviously the cancer patients, who all have their major concern about their illnesses. A survey conducted by the Institute of Medicine in 1997 revealed that 72% of cancer patients primary fears was pain.
Author Roger S. Cicala, the speaker, explains briefly the cures and treatments that can guide these patients through their fears and then into a more emotionally controlled mindset.
The occasion is anytime a cancer patient picks up this book and decides to deal with their illness in a constructive manner.
To sum up the introduction's subject is how patients should initially deal with pain, and what measures they should take to get it treated or solved. The author is kind enough to refer to many other resources if the reader isn't satisfied with his book alone, which is found in the appendixes. This shows the compassionate side of the author, and how he takes into account how his readers feel.
Above all, the author relates to his readers through his book much like a doctor giving a patient their diagnosis. Thankfully he takes these illnesses seriously.
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Questions and/or comments are always welcome! :)
The introduction states one major fear that all cancer patients fear is pain, more so a painful death.
To begin, the audience is obviously the cancer patients, who all have their major concern about their illnesses. A survey conducted by the Institute of Medicine in 1997 revealed that 72% of cancer patients primary fears was pain.
Author Roger S. Cicala, the speaker, explains briefly the cures and treatments that can guide these patients through their fears and then into a more emotionally controlled mindset.
The occasion is anytime a cancer patient picks up this book and decides to deal with their illness in a constructive manner.
To sum up the introduction's subject is how patients should initially deal with pain, and what measures they should take to get it treated or solved. The author is kind enough to refer to many other resources if the reader isn't satisfied with his book alone, which is found in the appendixes. This shows the compassionate side of the author, and how he takes into account how his readers feel.
Above all, the author relates to his readers through his book much like a doctor giving a patient their diagnosis. Thankfully he takes these illnesses seriously.
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Questions and/or comments are always welcome! :)
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