Proposed research topic

  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 lines.

I think that this type of research would be beneficial to children and families alike, because cancer is a very tough subject and a disease that kills many people each year. 

Reference

www.curesearch.org