Shanae's Blog

  The research topic that I would explore if I had the opportunity would be how can childhood cancers be prevented or reversed within the womb.  Curesearch.org provides these statistics about childhood cancer: Every day, 43 children are diagnosed with cancer. 12% of children diagnosed with cancer do not survive. Children’s cancer affects all ethnic, gender and socio-economic groups. The average age of children diagnosed is six. More than 40,000 children undergo treatment for cancer each year. If I could I would try to have the mothers of an unborn child screened so that the cancer if detected could be treated early. Or I would try to figure out if there was a pattern or some type of genetic code that is more prevalent in mothers that give birth to children that have or develop cancer. I have not thought about how this would be conducted without harming the mother or the fetus. However, maybe there could be some way to test the amniotic fluid or a method along those l...

     The research topic that I chose to explore is poverty. This topic became very pertinent to me within our last course. I choose to explore how children that have to deal with the effects of poverty have lasting issues into adulthood. I think that this issue is very important because poverty is a worldwide issue that can effect anyone at anytime. In addition, your neighbor could be living in poverty and you may not even know.      A resource that I plan to use is the Baltimore County Library resource database. This database is excellent and I have used it to help me find many articles relevant to topics that I was exploring.