Blog 20: Room Environment and Activity idea

(1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?

I want to mirror the hospital environment.  I am thinking to take everything off the wall and use white to show a clean environment. 

(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?

I really do not know.   I want to do an identification type of activity.  I don’t know exactly how it will look.  

Research Check #13

Etiological Factors in Skin Cancers:
Environmental and Biological
(Chapter 5)

Jacquelyn Huynh Vu
March 16, 2012

1. The cause of the vast majortity of basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer and melanoma is exposure to UV.

Skin cancer has to do with multiple factors
Endogeneous (e.g. genes)
Exogenous (e.g. Ultraviolet Radiation)

The interaction between these factors is complex and they usually act synergistically in the multistage process of Carcinogenesis:
Tumor initiation
Promotion
Premalignant progression
Malignant conversion of normal skin cells into skin cancers

Research focuses on squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), since only that skin cancer can be reliably reproduced in animal models.


2.  Development of skin cancer

• Genes vs.  UV, ionizing, viruses, chemicals, dyes, arsenic and more (Endogenous vs. Exogenous)

3.  Stages of Carcinogensis

• Initation: damage is caused
• Promotion: expansion or copy of cells
• Premalignant conversion: more instability, some obvious skin damage seen
• Malignant progression: skin cancer

4. Ultraviolet radiation

What it is?
How does it effect the skin?
UVA, UVB, UVC, Visible and Infra-red
UVA is most important because most of the UV reaching your skin is UVA
People living closer to the equator are exposed more (2.4 fold higher incidents)
People immigrating from Australia (who live there at a young age) have had higher incidents of skin cancer

Blog 19: Answer 2

What is the best way to treat skin cancer?

The term skin cancer refers to three different conditions:

• ·      Basal cell carcinoma (most common)
•     Squamous cell carcinoma
•     Melanoma (most serious because it spreads)

“To plan the best treatment for each patient, the doctor considers the location and size of the cancer, the risk of scarring, and the person's age, general health, and medical history.”

Answer 2: Scooping out the basal by using a curette (spoon like tool), then electric current to stop the bleeding and kill the rest of the cancer cells or Surgical excision (tumor is cut out) and stitched up

Evidence:

·      Basal cell carcinoma almost never spreads, but do grow and invade other tissue.  It is also the most common

·      Using curette is best for small cancers and for Basal and Squamous

·      Melanoma: After biopsy, the doctor may find

o   No need of treatment, just a mole

o   Atypical mole (take off a little bit of mole and surrounding skin to be safe)

o   Surgery (removing ½ inch of tissue around the Melanoma, unless if more severe, then may go deeper)

Sources:

Arroyo, Julie. Personal interview. 24 Feb. 2012.

Griffen, Daren.   Personal Interview.   13. February 2012

Rigel, Daniel S. Cancer of the Skin. Philadephia: Elsevier Saunders, 2005. Print.

Science Fair

Blog 18: The Product

 Blog 18: The Product

My outcome of my experience is I think I work better under pressure now.  

Evidence

Service Learning & Independent Component 2

Interview 4

• Service Learning & Independent Component 2: I am volunteering in the ER at El Monte Hospital.   I mainly help organize in the office, but I have had an opportunity to observe doctors and nurses working under pressure.
• I also feel like I was learning the importance of working under pressure in both of my fourth interviews
• I also have been balancing a lot with core, senior project, Senior Class ASB, ASB, and scholarship applications.