Kids Conquering Cancer

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Bryanna v

Oak Park, CA

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The Problem

Cancer is all around us. Most of us know someone who had or has cancer. This is a saddening realization and I know I can create a world of difference in the cancer community with life changing research and by maintaining a positive life outlook. One of my main goals is to combat and reform the standard treatment protocols for conquering cancer. All too often, patients are put through morbid surgery, then sickening rounds of chemotherapy, leaving the experimental procedures last. Many doctors and surgeons insist that the only way to go about treatment is to try chemo or invasive surgery first, and then go from there. These extensive surgeries are extremely hard on the body and the chemotherapy process is grueling not only on the body but on the emotions as well. Experimental procedures are typically looked at as the last resort. And although they do potentially pose serious risks, I feel that if these experimental procedures can do more good than harm why not make them the first? The problem lies in just that. Because of the title “experimental” it is looked as of outside of protocol and too risky causing many to shy away.

Plan of Action

In part with spreading Cryoablation awareness I have been funding a nerve protection study program, headed by my surgeon Dr. Erinjeri from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, which has extremely promising results that will help many forms of cancer patients not just Desmoids, and can even provide new research for other procedures such as spinal surgery. With our human bodies consisting of millions of nerves, it is very difficult if not impossible to keep track of which nerve controls what. This nerve protection study program will allow for doctors to differentiate between tangled or closely connected nerves, and essentially “map out” the nerves in a person’s body. This information will be beneficial during operations by protecting vital nerves by greatly reducing the risk of altering the wrong nerves. It will give doctors a clear picture to operate with and will make thousands of more patients candidates to these new experimental procedures, thus saving more lives. To make this reform come alive, I must first spread as much awareness to this project as possible. I have paired up with Curing Kid’s Cancer non-profit organization and already have raised over $25,000 in donations to help fund this study.
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