Part 1: Cancer story
First, statics related to metastatic cancer, 90 percent of deaths involve tumour that has spread around the body and 80 percent of childhood cancers metastasized. Metastatic cancers are cancer spread from the original place the primary tumour started to another part of the host’s body. But metastatic cancer usually is found in the bones near the centre of the body. For lung cancer like my host had, it usually spreads to the bone, liver or brain.
The story all starts in my host, Betty’s lungs. In the centre of her lungs, gene mutation caused one of the cells to act out of control, and wouldn’t stop dividing. This lead to creation of cancer cell that went out of control, and kept growing and expanded. I was one of the cells that was made in the process of cancer cell growth. We stick close together, so we had to be careful not to detach.
I was hanging around, doing whatever I do, I suddenly felt the urge to move to another place. I broke off the tumour and started my journey to another part of my host’s body with a few other cells. I moved forward by extending and letting go of the back end, slowly climbed over my neighbour cells, crawled through a thick wall of protein blocking us. We made it through and we squeezed ourselves through the blood cells that makes up the blood vessel. We, cancer cells, are bigger than the cells living in the blood stream, so some of us got stuck in the blood stream and got destroyed, or we were recognized by the immune system, and they caught some of us. This journey is very risky for all cancer cells, not a lot of cancer cells wants us to do this, because it usually leads to death, and there’s a bigger chance that we won’t form a tumour.
I managed to avoid the immune systems, now me and my friends attached to the wall of the blood stream and went through it carefully. We successfully arrived in the spine/bone, it was a very different environment, so we had to get use to the surroundings first to be able to “set up shop” successfully. We started reproducing and expanded the size of the tumour.
My host’s life is probably very bad right now, with two cancer tumours going on in her body, she will probably feel pain and fracture in the spine. She might have lost weight, loss appetite, shortness of breaths ,etc. She will be getting tremens for lung cancer for the most part, because my type of cancer, metastatic cancer is hard to cure, the treatment doesn’t take me away completely, it just to slow me down a little.
https://www.cancerquest.org/cancer-biology/metastasis
Part 2: Making of the Cancer story
I researched questions like how the metastatic cancer work, and what the metastasis looks like. I couldn’t research a lot about the gene mutations and what causes my mutation, because my topic was metastatic cancer, which is cancer that spread from the primary tumour. I used cancer.ca and cancerquest.org and more. I researched first about the things I need to know, and put them together to create the story. I put the websites I used on the bottom of the story to site. The process of this project was slow, because I had to research a lot about cancer, since we haven’t learned a lot about it yet. And there were many things and words I didn’t know. I think I could have had more details about the science part of it, but my cancer type was not specifically for that.
