Honors- Cancer Research

A link to my first article:

http://www.cancerjournal.net/article.asp?issn=0973-1482;year=2009;volume=5;issue=2;spage=93;epage=101;aulast=Wadasadawala

This article was about a study done relating to breast cancer. The study was a comparison of two different treatments and how different sub treatments effected the people involved. The two treatments were accelerated partial-breast irradiation and conventional whole-breast radiotherapy as it related to early breast cancer. I thought it was a bit of a challenge to read a real medical journal and some the the treatments were some I had never heard of. I never realized there were so many different ways to do radiation or other cancer treatments. I also thought it was interesting that the one that is the most effective has a better cosmetic outcome.

The best time to begin fighting cancer is at its earliest stages and if there is one treatment that works better then there (theoretically) would no cancerous cells coming back. I think that the results from this study are important because any kind of development in cancer research means a lot.