Ariel Jackson Expedition Reflection

In BCS we will be holding an expedition on cancer. For the past month the 11th graders and teachers have been researching on different cancer types. The reason for this is because BCS is community base school, which means that our objective is to educate our school and community about what we have learned. During this experience I’ve been on a mind controlling roller coaster. The reason for this is because cancer is a world wide illness which is capable of affecting almost anyone and everyone, and those who do have cancer have to treated with special medicine. However there’s no real cure for cancer. Cancer affects the body in many ways. It can cause rapid growth,slow growth, cell mutation,tumors,and overall health concerns.
Before our school came to the expedition part of the project, each class went on a class trip outside of the school. The point of our trips was to research the cancer type that we was assign to by of crew teachers. I had to focus on Leukemia, and leukemia is a cancer that affects the body early white blood cells. Leukemia is caused by a genetic mutation in the bone marrow and this leads to a abnormal white blood cell count. A normal white blood cell count range is 5,000 to 10,000. Those with leukemia white blood cell count range is 50,000 to 500,000. Normally white blood cells helps heal the body and it also helps maintain the body immune functions, which is healthy. However a person with leukemia have both healthy and unhealthy white blood cells, and the unhealthy cells can out number the healthy ones. At first this was confusing, because i did not know that there could be unhealthy white blood cells, being that they are there to create and maintain good health. Something that was challenging was trying to translate the information that I collected into something that both the young and older crowd can understand. Other than those two small set back everything else flowed for me.
This expedition will be very valuable, because from knowing what’s cancer, why does it happen to people, and how doe it affect people? can help us help others. From Brooklyn to Bronx , or America to China, the people of our community is facing cancer everyday. From young to old and from women to man cancer is a worldwide and unisex health concern for us all.