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Cancer Scholarship Essay

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“Mr. Srivastava, we’re sorry, but she didn’t make it.” These are the nine words that were spoken to my father on November 19, 2007. This day was the most unforgettable day of my life, because it was the last time I heard my mother’s voice and I shall never forget her words to me or the doctor’s words to my father. I can still remember my mother giving me a hug before I went to school, coming home from school in a good mood, seeing my dad waiting anxiously, going to the hospital, and eventually realizing that my mother was gone forever. The death of a loved one from an incurable malady causes grief for everybody in the family. While some think that nobody in their family will ever suffer from these terrible diseases, any member of any family …show more content…

One out of two men are predicted to have cancer at least once in their lives and one out of three women are predicted to have cancer at least once. I would like to help out in the field of cancer research because it has the potential to save many lives. Cancer affects so many people, and if I research cancer and help find a cure to a type of cancer, I will help many cancer patients recover and I will also relieve the stress of the family members of the cancer patient. Doing this research would also be very helpful to society as a whole, because it is predicted that close to the majority of people will get cancer. If I helped find a cure, then I would be helping so many people live longer, happier, and cancer-free lives. Saving somebody’s life is very rewarding, because you have just helped somebody go through what may be the hardest phase of their life, and relieved a lot of their …show more content…

I can’t stand passively watching a family or a patient suffering from an untreatable cancer. I want to help find a cure to a few types of cancer so that the patients can live longer and happier lives. I also don’t want a cancer patient’s family to have to go through the same pain I did when my mother died. I hope that by researching cancer, I will be able to save lives of many patients, reduce stress that a patient’s family goes through, experience the great joy of having helped somebody go through a difficult phase in their life, and becoming a cancer researcher seems very

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