I awoke as as my host had once again spent the morning running between her bed and the bathroom so she wouldn’t get sick on the floor of her room. She was diagnosed with stomach cancer after having multiple blood tests and an Endoscopy. I started out as a tiny tumor that was barely detectable on the innermost layer of her stomach called the mucosa. I have now tripled in size and am roughly the size of a large orange. I was created when one of of my host’s cells started to grow and multiply too rapidly.
My host was diagnosed with stage 3 stomach cancer at the age of 15. She started showing signs of having cancer after having abdominal pain, weight loss, a change in skin colour on her stomach, feeling nauseous and vomiting up blood. She was also showing signs of jaundice, which is a yellowish discolouration of the skin. My host has been going to chemotherapy for about 2 years now and has taken part in a clinical trial.
Next month my host is going in for a Gastrectomy, which is a surgery where you get either a portion of or your entire stomach removed. After her surgery she will have to make all sorts of diet changes such as eating smaller meals throughout the day, avoiding foods with high fibre, eating foods rich in calcium, iron, and vitamins C and D, and possibly even taking vitamin supplements.
Part 2:
1)
What are the symptoms?
What cures have been created?
What are the risks?
What changes will have to be made after surgery?
How does cancer start?
2) I used the internet and Microsoft word.
3) I first started by research the big idea which was stomach cancer, then I broke it down into multiple separate ideas and researched each of those.
4) I used multiple different websites to make sure that they information all had the same basic idea to make sure that it was accurate.
5) The process went well and successful. I think to make it have gone better I could of had a better idea on what I wanted the final project to look like.
Sources:
http://www.healthline.com/health/gastrectomy#followup7
http://www.medicinenet.com/jaundice_in_adults/article.htm
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/stomach-gastric-cancer#1
http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/stomach/treatment/?region=bc
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/whoami/findoutmore/yourbody/whatiscancer/howdoescancerbegin
