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Finally finished my speech on melanomas, could someone read over it, and tell me if it’s any good?
I’ve done it. can someone read it and tell me if it’s any good? i want honest answers. don’t mind spelling mistakes,
is there anyhting i shuld take out?
1).should i bring in a wide brim hat, sun glasses, a bottle of sunscreen and along sleeve shirt?
2). have a sheet for everyone with pictures of melanomas and the cancer council website and number
3). or have a slide show in the back ground of pictures..
i’m 15, and i’m a girl, if that helps haha :S
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“Slip on a shirt, slop on some sunscreen and slap on a hat” Says Sid the cancer council seagull. Although this slogan is commonly used across our nation every summer, there is not enough education about sun safety through out our schools.
Melanoma is a form of skin cancer. The most deadliest and rapid moving cancer of them all. The first sign of melanoma is usually a new spot or an existing mole or freckle that changes in appearance.
Some of the changes might be that the spot may grow larger. The edges of the spot may look irregular rather than smooth. The spot may be mottled with a range of colours such as brown, black, blue, red, white or light grey. The spot may be itchy or may bleed. Here is an example of a melanoma…(this is where i’d show a picture of one)
It’s recommended that you go straight to the doctors when you notice these signs, every few months especially the warmer ones. you should get all your moles and freckles checked just to be on the safe side.
People with fair skin are at higher risk of developing melanoma than those with darker skin. but it is no substitute for sunscreen and adequate protective clothing.
As our earth is getting hotter and hotter, it should only be common sense that we should be taking further care of our skin. a long sleeve top, A wide brim hat, SPF15+ sunscreen, and protective sunglasses are suitable during the scorching summer temperatures.
“Between 11am and 3pm, stay under a tree, the best sunscreen of all is absolutely free.” This statement is not true, because even during the coldest times of the year, you can still get sun burnt. And not only that, UV Rays are not the only thing that causes cancer, Tanning booths and pollution can trigger melanomas.
Although there are several causes of cancer, there are also many, many myths about cancer. I’m sure a majority of you have heard that putting your mobile phone down your shirt or under your pillow of a night, causes cancer. Not true, I can assure you of that.
Myth number 2). Household bug sprays causes cancer, Sleeping with an underwire bra causes cancer, Photocopying a body part causes cancer, applying sunscreen once a day will keep you safe from UV rays, You can’t get burnt when you’re in the snow. Pay no attention, for not one of these is true.
On average; One in 24 males and one in 33 females will develop melanoma of skin by the age of 75. Every year over 9500 new cases of melanoma are diagnosed in Australia and more than 1200 people die. In 2003, melanoma of the skin was the most common cancer in men aged 15 to 19 and 25 to 54 and women aged 15 to 34.
A recent sunscreen ad by Neutrogena Sunscreen features a young woman with the caption, ‘My sister accidentally killed herself. She died of Skin Cancer’. The message is clear: Those who die of the disease only have themselves to blame.
Although melanoma only accounts for 2% of cancer deaths, It is still ultimately important to protect yourself from the harmful UV rays.
There are many different cancer fundraisers, for different kinds of cancers.
World Cancer Day is marked on February 4th to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.
Jeans for Genes is a major fundraiser of the Children’s Medical Research Institute.
This includes Jeans for Genes Day, events, exhibitions and other fundraising events throughout the year.
Daffodil Day is the largest fundraising event of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and the day of the year we invite all Australians to unite and lend their support to the fight against cancer.
The money raised will help the Cancer Council to fund essential services, education and research programs, making a difference to lives of people with cancer today, and helping to protect lives tomorrow.
A lot of people these days who have passed on from cancer, their families request that donations to the cancer council are made in lieu of flowers, so more money can be put in to research. Instead of money being wasted on flowers and dying like their loved ones.
Cancer research has come such a long way in the past 2 decades. When you were diagnosed with cancer back then, It was almost like a death sentence. But now with cancer research and treatments, such as radiology and chemotherapy and certain medications, a lot can be cured it’s just when it reaches the vital organs, ie. Liver, lungs, bowel, the survival rate drops dramatically,
I recently had a personal experience with melan
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Looks great to me! I bet you get top marks.
My mother has just been diagnosed with basal cell sarcoma and I’ve been trying to learn more about skin cancer.
I think bringing in props to prove your point is a great idea. Photos of melanoma can be pretty graphic, so you might not want to gross out your teacher or have the audience so distracted by your images they don’t listen to you.
How large is your class? If on average one in 30 people develop this cancer you could hand out 29 candies of one color and 1 of a different color. You could then ask the audience to check their candy to see if it might be them.
I just hope your classmates listen and take heed of your warning.
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“Melanoma is a form of skin cancer. The most deadliest and rapid moving cancer of them all”
Replace with something like
“Melanoma is the most aggressive and deadliest of skin cancers.”
Previously it sounds you are comparing to all cancers.
“As our earth is getting hotter and hotter”
Remove it since you do not want to bring outside debatable influences into the paper. I mean the data I have seen, the earth has gotten a little cooler the past seven years.
“Tanning booths and pollution can trigger melanomas.”
There has never been a study to show that pollution is a cause of melanoma cancer.
“Those who die of the disease only have themselves to blame.”
Oh really!!!
Those that get melanoma who wear shoes outside all of time and still get melanoma on thier toes have to blame themselves.
Certain patterns of moles also commonly go along with an increased risk of melanoma, such as having unusual moles called dysplastic nevi. The risk of melanoma is also greater for people with a large number of ordinary moles.
Melanoma sometimes runs in families, so people with two or more close relatives who have had melanoma also have an increased risk.
Yes, I got offended by that statement.
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Dealing with stage III melanoma.
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