Cancer Evaluation

            I have grown up around cancer my whole life. My father died when I was seven from Wolf-Parkinson’s White disease. Even though he died of heart disease, they found that he had throat cancer. He had never smoked in his life. My mother has smoked for as long as I can remember. I am very concerned about second hand smoke. I have tried my best to learn as much about cancer as I can because it is all around me.

            I really need to watch myself when I comes to cancer. I used to be in the sun all the time. I lived in Texas and Arkansas for years and in the summer I was at the pool everyday. I very rarely wore sunscreen. A couple years ago I noticed a mole on my leg and the doctors got really concerned about. We have been watching it very carefully. I watch for any signs of size or color, so for it has not changed. My Auntie Joan died last December of liver cancer. It stared out as breast cancer and then traveled throughout her entire body. She went through chemo and radiation. By the time she went she was very thin, weak, and she had a hard time just staying awake.

            I wish I could say that we could make cancer non-existent, but we can’t. All we can do is to take care of ourselves. Because of all I have been through I take the time every month to check myself. I do not one to be one of those people who were too late because they didn’t wan to take time to check themselves.