The topic I have chosen to explore for the second paper is the treatment of Neuroblastoma, a common cancer in children. My scholarly article is about a research project that had the goal of determining if surgery was enough treatment for Neuroblastoma. It was a study conducted by the SIOP Europe Neuroblastoma Group. The study yielded very high survival rates after surgery for patients without the MYCNA gene present but not so great survival rates for patients with the MYCNA gene. They used 427 patients that all had either stage 1 or 2 Neuroblastoma. Of the 288 stage 1 patients, there was a 94.3 percent survival rate. For the 122 stage 2 patients there was an 82.8 percent survival rate. The conclusion of the study was that surgery alone was very helpful for both stage 1 and stage 2 patients without the MYCNA gene but patients in both stages with the MYCNA gene were at a greater risk for relapse.
My popular article is from the University of Michigan Department of Surgery. It discusses the basics of neuroblastoma and the effects of surgery on neuroblastoma patients. It also discusses how different stages of the cancer require different types of treatment. I would like to use multiple popular articles, if possible, because there are many with valuable information on the subject.
My biggest concern with this paper is being able to come up with SIX pages just on this subject. I know there is a lot of information but I don’t even understand half of the scholarly article. It doesn’t seem to me like there is enough to discuss on this subject to fill up that many pages. I suppose to fix this problem I will have to search deep into all the elements of both essays. I will explore the context and rhetoric of my popular article, since I can actually understand what it’s saying. I will also have to dive deep into the tones and syntax of the sentences in each and explain how it is hard for any average person to decipher what the scholarly article says. I also plan on talking about the audiences for each and how this affects the way that the author of each writes his or her article.
Scholarly Article: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=19&hid=106&sid=112bcf35-0587-4210-8d5d-27b1b3d3c4a6%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=34559232
Popular Article: http://surgery.med.umich.edu/pediatric/clinical/physician_content/n-z/neuroblastoma.shtml
APA Citations
Scholarly:
De Bernardi, B. (2008). Treatment of localised resectable neuroblastoma. Results of the LNESG1 study by the SIOP Europe Neuroblastoma Group. British Journal of Cancer, 99(7), 1027-1033. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604640
Popular: (couldn’t find an author for this one… do you just skip it like in MLA?)
(2010). Cancer in children – neuroblastoma. University of Michignan Health System. Retrieved from: http://surgery.med.umich.edu/pediatric/clinical/physician_content/n-z/neuroblastoma.shtml
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