Informative Essay On Breast Cancer

My heart sunk to the bottom of my chest, as my mom sobbed in my arms, I felt fear, anxiety, and numbness. My grandmother had breast cancer, this is what I heard through my mom’s tears, and I didn’t know what to say. Cancer effects many people in many different ways, whether it’s a loved one or just someone you know or even a friends loved one or if you’re the one that’s diagnosed. Cancer has a very high prevalence in our society and it seems no matter how much research, that a cure will never be found. This can affect people in many different ways and can change how they view the world and life. Cancer is something that clearly takes a toll on the person going through it, but the support and families also have difficulties through the tough

This little boy in my class, his mom had been struggling with cancer and then she had passed that year. While it was very sad, I didn’t really know the boy, so at 7 years old it wasn’t a big worry for me. Although now being older I realize that my parents kept me from my Poppop’s diagnosis. Fast forward to eighth grade, my best friend’s mom had gotten sick a few years back and was diagnosed with cancer. I watched my friend loose her mother in eighth grade and that scared me. I couldn’t imagine being that young and losing your mother. I was so worried and all I could think was I didn’t want anything to happen to my mom. Then I had to go to the funeral, my friend was someone who I’ve never seen cry and to this day she is one of the toughest people I know, but that day she was a mess. Her mom’s death is something the family knew was coming, but still is something that seems upsetting. The last person I know that went through this is one of my mom’s friend’s sister. This was a young healthy new mom, and she was diagnosed with leukemia. This woman had a husband and a two-year-old son. She put up a fight through it all though, she was in recovery multiple times, but it just kept coming back. She tried everything she could to stay with her family, but eventually the persistent disease took her from her family. Now her family is left with a grieving husband and a little boy who will grow up to most likely have little recollection of his