Cancer’s Effects On Everyone By: Paige Elliott
How being there for someone could mean the world to them.
People may wonder, what exactly is cancer? Cancer is the broad name for many diseases. It starts when cells start to grow out of control. When they grow out of control, they do not die off like normal cells do. Instead they stay living and reproduce more cells. The cancer cells, overproduced cells, invade tissue and grow out of control causing cancer.
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they feel about themselves. When going through these hard times people going through the treatments need a strong team like close family and friends, to heavily rely on for strength.
Finding the right words Finding the right words might be hard to do. You don’t want to be offensive or hurt anyone’s feelings. The wrong thing to do when trying to find the right words is tell them they that they are “dying” but how they look good while doing it. According to CNN Health, “Banish the following from your vocabulary: terminal, incurable, hopeless, and salvage.” It is not “good cancer etiquette.” Those can be very hurtful words to someone going through what could possibly be one of the worst times they are possibly going to go through. CNN health said that many patients like to receive “Thinking of You” cards and simple compliments that do not take it too far. If you can’t think of the right words to say, stop and think to yourself, “What would I want someone to say to me? Am I taking it too far?” It is okay to stop and think before you speak so that the feelings are not hurt.
As a victim of cancer, many times you must go through chemotherapy and radiation. As people go through the various ways of fighting cancer, they tend to lose hair. According to Medical News Today, there were many reports that people who lost there hair would get funny looks from people at everyday places like the supermarket. Even though they would get these looks, they could always go to their family or spouses for inspiration. “Family and good friends don’t care about your body image. They just want you Coping with Cancer to be there,” says an anonymous cancer survivor. As well as dealCoping with cancer is not an ing with the diagnosis and treat- Norwood raises awareness. Norwood high school ments of cancer, they also have raised money to help the St. Jude benefit in memory easy thing to do. It’s not something of Jenny Huber. that anyone can get over right away. to find ways to cope with how It takes a long time for it to settle in. their body is changing and how