You Don't Scare Me Cancer!

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display the traits of uncontrolled growth. Cancer causes about 13% of all deaths.According to the American Cancer Society, 7.6 million people died from cancer in the world during 2007. One of the most popular cancer is breast cancer.It is one of the top ten diseases that takes the lives of woman. My great aunt was one of the victims of breast cancer, who lost her battle with breast cancer. Along with my great aunt, my grandmother,grandfather, and oldest aunt have all been diagnosed with cancer throughout their lives. Luckily, they were all able to defeat this disease. As you can probably tell, cancer is a deadly disease that runs in my family. Since many of my close family members have been diagnosed with it, their is a high chance that I might get it sometime is my life. Though this disease is deadly, I am not scared of it.If a day should come where I am given the news that I have cancer, I will do my best to defeat it. If My grandmother and grandfather can defeat it so can I.