Find your name and answer Question #1 and the OTHER question(s) assigned to you. Make sure to list your sources for all of your answers. Answer in COMPLETE sentences. Answers should be in essay form. This is for a TEST GRADE. Good luck.
READ THIS ARTICLE ABOUT CANCER, then answer the questions below.
QUESTION #1: Do you think what you read was true? Why or why not?
QUESTION #2: Answer the question(s) assigned to you in complete sentences. List your sources for your answers.
No sources = NO CREDIT
QUESTION #3: What did you learn about cancer that you did not know before doing this assignment.
GROUP 1--CANCER DONATIONS EACH YEAR
How much money is donated each year to find a cure for cancer?
What organizations receive the most money (Top 3)
GROUP 2-TOTAL U.S. CANCER DEATHS EACH YEAR
How many people does cancer kill each year in the U.S.?
GROUP 3. DEATHS BY STATE
How many people die of cancer each year in these states?
in Louisiana?
in Texas?
in California?
in Florida?
in Kansas?
in Missouri?
GROUP 4- "SHOW ME THE MONEY $$$$$...."
If cancer was cured this TODAY, ....How much money would the following organizations lose in 2015? In the next 10 years?
- Susan G. Komen Foundation
- St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital (Children Cancers)
- LIVESTRONG.org (Lance Armstrong Foundation) (Multiple Cancers)
GROUP 5-CANCER DIAGNOSIS EACH YEAR
How many new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year
for women?
for men?
In Louisiana?
In Texas?
In Georgia?
GROUP 6-CANCER SURVIVAL RATES
What % of people LIVE more than 5 years after being diagnosed with these cancers:
Pancreatic
Liver
Lung
Esophageal cancer
Stomach
Laryngeal cancer
Oral
Colon
Bone
Cervical
Kidney
Breast