Sickle Cell Persuasive Speech

Sickle Cell was discovered in 1910. That is more than 100 years that it has been around and there are people still suffering from it today. Researcher’s only know that it causes pain, blocks blood streams, and that the people affected can die from it. Since 1910 they only have two “cures” for Sickle Cell Disease. One cure is called a bone marrow transplant and the other is a stem cell transplant. Both of the “cures” is a big risk to take because it is hard to find a matching sibling and there is a risk of the body rejecting it. If the body rejects the bone marrow in the body, it will shut down and death is the outcome. Scientists need to find a cure so that people with SCD can finally live their life without worrying.hook-The disease originated in at least four different parts of

Thesis-Sickle cell anemia affects a portion of the world’s population and people need to be more aware of this because more people are dying from this sickness, there is a lack of available funds being raised to find a cure, and there is a lack of knowledge. People need to be aware of this disease, considering that it affects an abundance of people in the world daily. “Doctors didn’t seem to know much about sickle cell disease”. (Gold, "Sickle Cell Patients Endure Discrimination, Poor Care And Shortened Lives").Therefore, people with sickle cell need to be aware who their doctors are or who are treating them in emergencies. If a doctor doesn’t know about sickle cell and a patient is diagnosed with it, they would not know what to do.“ Awareness is still incredibly low, research isn’t much better and the stigma surrounding the illness is getting worse not better”. (“Cell 100 years later” page 4, Line 6-7).In other words, people with this disease will be in excruciating pain because the doctors don’t know what to give them or know what to do. The results of how many people know about SCD should be higher now that it affects a quantity of an increased amount of