My Essential Question

I would like to learn through an assessment of research: Which treatments do doctors use to help cure or treat cancers in pediatrics?

Why did you select this as your essential question? What excites you most about finding the answer to this essential question? Do you feel that this question accurately reflects a desire/need that you have to find out more about this topic?

I selected this as my essential question because cancer in children evokes my desire to want to learn about it, as well as other diseases or illnesses that affect children. I really desire to learn as much as I can about diseases in children, especially cancer because of the way it can affect their life as well as the lives around them. The thing that excites me the most is being able to see how doctors nowadays treat cancer in children and later on in life be able to compare it to how those treatments evolve, if they do. Also, just being able to understand more about how treatments affect a child or help the cancer in a child’s body excites me as well, because learning how diseases and their treatments work vastly interests me. I do believe that this topic reflects a desire I have to find out more about this topic. I believe this because I have such an interest in cancer and how it works, especially in an adolescent body. I have already posed questions to my mentor to see what information I could find out, thus leading me to learn that Leukemia is a cancer that is found more commonly in children. Due to my questioning of my mentor, I also found out that in order to find more information on cancers in children that I need to do some research on my own. This realization led me to be deeply interested in researching and learning more about the topic on my own. I have also been very interested in child cancers since I was younger doing things for St. Jude’s to help children with cancer. Through my own desires and exposures previously to knowing about cancer in children, I have thus felt led to want to expand my knowledge about the topic.