The Best Kept Secret

Adam Taylor

8/1/05

Period 3, Contemporary Lit.

The world's deadliest killer today, killing in all different forms and ways, striking silently and then hard and having either a cure or not. Yes I'm talking about Cancer.

There are all different types of cancer. Prostate cancer, Adrenal, Breast, Ovarian, Kidney, Lung Cancer etc. the list could go on and on. But there are three main cancers that hurt not only America but other countries as well and those are Breast, Lung, and AIDS. Breast cancer is the most recorded type of cancer out there. Even though this obstruction can be removed that doesn't mean it won't come back. Breast cancer forms in the pectoral area as a tumor. Weekly checks are recommended for women as young as ages 14 to women in there late 50's, so that it doesn't spread to the lymph nodes and spread throughout the blood stream.

The second Leading cancer is of the lung. Smoking is cool some say, Smoking makes one look older others say, and some just smoke to fit in or what not, but smoking is the leading killer for people in their late 30's and up. Cigarettes kill and that's a fact, but it seems to go in one ear and out the other of smokers. "Truth" the commercials made by the "Anti Cigarette corporation" are designed to show the long term effects of smoking to people to encourage and urge them to quit.

The third leading killer is AIDS. "We do not know how many people developed AIDS in the 1970s, or indeed in the years before. Neither do we know, nor will probably never know, where the AIDS virus HIV originated," said Jonathan Mann a PHD physician. It's everywhere we go, it's a silent killer 80% of the people today don't know or will not know for a while that they have aids.

In Conclusion Cancer is group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth in which can be healed if treated soon enough, but if not then it grows silently and deadly and before you know it, it's already to late for cures and all ones got left is a limited time that will run out.