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I cannot imagine standing here today with the confidence I have in me if it wasn’t for the technology that has been developed in this world over the past few decades. This revolution in technology has given humans the ability to experience life in a way that no humans before us had. In sickness, we are finally given the opportunity of positive treatment, and a chance of a full recovery. In health, we are able to maintain fitness. In the world of electronics and recreation, we have started a new chapter in the world of technology. But my story comes from the one of the smallest things on earth: the human cell. In that cell, something was rapidly growing in both my grandmother and mother, and it was cancer. It was over thirty years ago that my own grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although I was not alive, I am thankful for the luck that she had for the duration of her illness. Yes, it is luck that I am thankful for. For my grandmother did not receive the treatment we have today to treat the millions of woman with breast cancer today. Without that luck, I am not entirely sure I would be able to write about this topic at all. But to see how far we’ve come, from the time of luck my grandmother had, to the definite and promising amounts of treatment my mother will be getting as she battles breast cancer in the world today. She will be receiving the treatment chemotherapy and radiation. Chemotherapy was first used to treat cancer in people during the mid 1900s. Though it was known that it could treat cancer, and kill cancerous cells, it was not definite that it would always work. From that time, chemotherapy has developed tremendously. Today, chemotherapy treatment is the primary treatment to most cancer patients. This is what it does today....

And though all this is true, chemotherapy is still refused by some. Even some breast cancer patients today have their reasons that repel the use of chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Though these treatments kill off cancer cells (and some regular cells), it is not 100 % known that it will not appear again in the body because of how quickly cancer cells multiply.

When my grandmother found out my mother had cancer, she gave me a call, specifically to console me. I was shy of the knowledge of this new and improved technology, thinking chemotherapy was just to give the patient a “chance”. She explained how when she was battling breast cancer, not only was expensive, but the treatments were indefinite. I still had my doubts about chemotherapy today. How was it different? How was it new and improved? By having two doctors for parents, I was sat down for a long time and explained that chemotherapy has even improved within the last couple of year. This was the point at which I began to thank technology. I know my mom will be alright because of the technology, the research, and the funds that have been put into cancer research and treatment. I strongly support chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Without them, the mental and physical process would be too difficult to embrace. For millions of women and men battling many different types of cancer, and though some are easier to treat than others, treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation have changed their lives.