Diagnosing Cancer PA #2
Joseph Amado
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Part One: Abstract
History has a fascinating way of making itself. There are certainly many different accomplishments that make history and it time for cancer to be brought up in history. You would be surprised but the study of the human body actually started in the early 15th century. This was during the Renaissance period of our country and knowledge for the human body was right around the corner. Body autopsies were being done frequently to help understand how the body functions. A man by the name of Giovanni Morgagni started the process of studying cancer by doing autopsies that that connected to the patient’s death. Another man came into the picture around the time of 18th century named John Hunter. He made the suggestion that the cancer could be cured through surgery and that it can physically be removed from the body. Later after that idea they created an anesthesia that will allow the surgery to happen. During the 19th century they started using the microscope to help them study diseased tissue. The microscope was a great advance in technology at the time and gave them the extra edge to go deeper and see clearly. With the new invention they could go into surgery only removing the diseased tissue and advance then to see deeper in the human body. With cancer being such a big problem more and more scientist tried to tackle this disease and make theories about them. For example there was the humoral theory, lymph theory, blastema theory, chronic irritation theory and the trauma theory. These theories developed over time and have one another with the flaws that they include. One example is that the humoral theory would say that the cancer is caused by the body fluids and through some research the lymph theory appeared saying that the lymph was the cause of cancer. After that more technology developed and that’s when the blastema theory came in and proved that the lymph was not the cause but the dying cells in the body. As the technology developed the researched then developed and help the scientist find the problem quicker and therefore treat it. Back then the technology was advancing just as fast as today but we have still haven’t found the true cure for cancer.
Part Two: Abstract
We have come a far way from the way we diagnose cancer. Back then they had many more casualties trying to figure out if they cancer or not and had to open the actually open body through an autopsy and now we don’t have to touch the body. The amazing thing is that the World Health Organization’s International Agency has made the most progress of all. We have devoted a whole organization to this terrible disease and have discovered over 100 chemical, physical and biological things that cause cancer. The more they find out what cause cancer the faster they can prevent cancer. We have advanced so much that we actually figured out the exact chemical structure of DNA. With DNA being the main messenger of cells we have spent a lot of research on that alone. Once they could understand the DNA they would be able to study the mutations of the cells and why this was happening. With the extreme advances in chemistry and biology, made all this understanding possible and go further than ever before. With the dramatic increase of technology it has allowed us to notice that the cancer gene would run in families. With this great find they can carefully study the noncancerous person and try to prevent cancer from happening and have saved many lives by doing this. When they have both the infected body and the healthy one they can compare and contrast the two different bodies and go further into the study of cells and become familiar with the mutations. Our breakthroughs in technology allow us to do cancer detections for early detections. Within these detections we can cover almost every area of the human body including the cervix, breast, colon and rectum and many others. Some detection is also purely based on the person’s age and gender as well. With the age and gender we can detect in specific areas like the skin, ovaries, testes and so on and so forth. The fact that we can detect the cancer without touching the patient is an amazing advance in technology and has saved lives by 70% within the last decade. As you can see the technology has advanced dramatically and will continue to advance as we are in the technology era.