For my topic, I decided to research the increase of the cancer rate in our country and other industrial countries. My concern for this is personal because I lost my mother to cancer when I was ten years old. My mother was a healthy woman who was active and physically fit. She did not smoke, and she had no family history of cancer. Yet when she was 36 she had emergency surgery for abdominal pain, and …showed first 75 words of 2189 total…

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