Wednesday, May 29, 2013
STEM Presentation, May 23, 2013, Mike Hassett
Annie's dad, Dr. Mike Hassett, came to speak with Team 6-4 about his work in oncology and clinical information systems. He showed us the difference between healthy cells and cancerous cells and explained how different treatments work for different kinds of cancers. We also learned how many years he spent studying to learn to do his job and how much he enjoyed those years of study.
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Thank you so much for sharing your STEM profession with our team. I especially enjoyed how your sprinkled your sense of humor in your presentation. The cartoon was the best!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming. I had an amazing time watching your presentation. I had one question. How can you tell of you are getting cancer?
ReplyDeleteSometimes a person feels something that doesn't feel right. Doctors call these abnormal feelings symptoms. Usually, these symptoms are caused by common problems, like the flu. Very rarely, if the symptom does not go away a person goes to a doctor who orders a test to figure out what is going on. Sometimes that test finds cancer. There is no one symptom that indicates a person has cancer. Different cancers cause different kinds of symptoms.
DeleteI like that you treat cancer and I liked how you joked around.
ReplyDelete~Leah
Thank you so much for coming! I liked how used your sense of humor in your presentation. Is there a way to tell if someone is getting cancer before it happens? For malaria(skin cancer) what does it look like? What is the most dangerous kind of cancer? Have you ever had a kind of cancer? If someone in your family had cancer does that mean you would have a chance of getting that cancer? Thanks again for coming in!
ReplyDeleteAly Sonnenberg
For some, but not all cancers, doctors can do tests that identify people who have a higher-than-normal risk of getting cancer. There are also a few tests that can detect cancer before a person would otherwise know its there. We call these screening tests, and when we use them we call it primary prevention.
DeleteThank you so much for your STEM presentation. It was very informative! I enjoyed learning about the types of cancer and how you work on patients! Thanks again for coming into our classroom!- Kenzie
ReplyDeleteThank you so very much for sharing your job with us. Before you came in, I never knew what oncology was, but now I do! I never knew you used hazardous materials in oncology. I also never knew that doctors had good senses of humor either! Thanks again for sharing your job with our team!
ReplyDeletefrom Ben
Thank you so much for coming into our class and talking about your wonderful STEM job. It was very interesting to learn more about oncology because my dad, Pankaj Bhargava, is also an oncologist. I didn't know that much abou oncology, even though my dad is oncologist who also works at Dana-Farber, and now I know all about it! I found it really interesting when you showed us the difference between the cancer cells and non-cancer cells. I also loved the cartoons about the doctor and his patients. I find it very interesting that there are many different ways to treat cancer with radiation and chemotherapy. Thanks again for coming!
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Thank you for coming, Dr. Hassett. I enjoyed your STEM presentation.
ReplyDelete-Donald
Thank you so much for coming in and telling us about your job. I think what you do for a living is very important and helpful.
Delete-Drew Riseberg
Thanks a ton for coming into 6-4 and showing us a lot about what you do with cancers and medicines, I was wondering how cancers feel if you have one, and what happens if you treat it really late or not at all. Thanks again for coming!
ReplyDelete-Ronit
Different cancers cause different feelings. Some common feelings experienced by people who have cancer include tiredness, loss of appetite, weight loss, nausea, and fever. Most of these feelings are non-specific, meaning that many other conditions beside cancer can cause these feelings too.
DeleteThank you for coming to our class, Dr. Hassett. I really loved to learn about oncology. My cousin is studying oncology and I have always wanted to know more about cancer and cells even though my mom is a pathologist. It loved learning about treating cancer with radiation and chemotherapy. I remember my mom talking a little about chemotherapy but I didn't know what it was about.I really liked the cartoons you showed us. I also had a question. What would doctors do if they found out about a type of cancer that is really hard to treat?
ReplyDeleteWhen doctors find a type of cancer that is hard to treat they do experiments to try to find new treatments that could work to treat that cancer. The hospital where I work is currently studying many new and promising treatments. It can take many years and lots of hard work to prove that a new treatment works for a particular cancer.
DeleteThank you so much for coming to team 6-4 and telling us about your profession. It was very interesting to learn about oncology and see all the cancer cells. I will definitely think about oncology as a future career. Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteJack
Hi Dad.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for coming. I learned a lot more than I do when at dinner I hear you talking to Mom about patients. :) So, thanks. I didn't know that you created programs to use for inserting patients' information. Thank you for a good refill of info!
You are welcome!
DeleteThank you so much for coming in I really enjoyed your presentation. I learned a lot about cancer, and Oncology. I learned new ways they are trying to treat cancer, such as radiation and chemotherapy. I also liked how you showed the differences between people with cancer and without cancer, I thought that was very cool. I also enjoyed how you put some humor into your presentation, it made it even more interesting to listen to. What is the most common type of cancer? Have doctors/researchers been finding more types of cancer? Can somebody have cancer, not get treated and still survive? Thank you so much for coming in
ReplyDeleteThanks, Isabelle
The most common type of cancer in the United States is skin cancer. If a cancer grows very slowly, which happens rarely, a person can not get treated and still survive.
DeleteHello Dr. Hassett! I really enjoyed your presentation. I really wanna be either a researcher like you or a doctor! I still had one question that did not get answered. It was: Does cancer spread quickly and why does it do so?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your time and I hope come again!
-Daniel D.
Some cancers spread quickly and others don't spread at all. We don't really understand why.
DeleteThank you so much for coming in to our class and teaching us about your job. I learned a lot about the different types of cancer. The photos were also really interesting. I also found it interesting that you can make medicine from poisonous things. I also now know that you can use radiation to treat cancer. I enjoyed your presentation very much! -WIllen
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming in and showing us what you do for life. How do you work at all of those places do you work at one place of a bit and then go to another place?
ReplyDeleteElla S
I spend a lot of time walking from one building to the next.
DeleteDr. Hasset,
ReplyDeleteI loved your presentation! I thought that your job was truly fascinating. I really enjoyed seeing the difference between healthy cells and cancer cells I had fun trying to decide which X-Ray had cancer and which one didn't. A few questions I have is: in what order are the different types of cancer by how many people get them? ow many different known types of cancer are there? Which is more common- using radiation or chemotherapy? What percentage of the people who have cancer are killed by it? Did you ever treat anyone who passed away (from cancer)? I loved your sense of humor while you were doing your presentation! The cartoons were awesome! I loved the one about the guy who had the arrow through his head. Do you make jokes with your patients? What's the easiest type of cancer to treat? The hardest? Do you help make the medicine or just know about it? How many patients do you have per year? What are some side effects of different types of cancer? Do you treat a specific type of cancer, or all types? What's your favorite part of your job? If you didn't take up a career in science, what job do you think you'd have, if any? I really enjoyed having you in our class! Thanks a billion!
Darby
Wow, that's a lot of questions. I'll have to come back to class for another presentation. When I see patients I am only responsible for chemotherapy. Another doctor does the radiation therapy. I don't make the medications - our chemists and pharmacists do that. Really, treatment cancer requires a big team of people all working together.
DeleteThank you for coming in and teaching us about oncology! Before you came, I didn't really know what it was. I also didn't know how much schooling you need to become an oncologist. I liked looking at the slides to figure out where the cancer was, and looking at the difference between cancerous cells and normal cells. Before your presentation, I wasn't quite sure what caused cancer. I knew it can make people very sick and can be fatal, but I didn't really know how. Thanks again for coming into our class to teach us about your job!
ReplyDelete-Nola
Thank you for coming. I really enjoyed hearing about your job.
ReplyDeleteAaron
Thank you so much for coming and teaching
ReplyDelete6-4 about oncology. It was really fun and because I didn't know what an oncologist was but now I do. I loved your presentation. I learned a lot because I got my name from my moms favorite cousin and she died from the leukemia cancer. I never knew what it really was until now. I cant remember if you answered this question but, is there a cure for leukemia??? I liked trying to find out which one of the pictures had the cancer. I thought I was hard because I didn't know what it looks like normally because I cant look inside my body. You must love your job because you were in school for such a long time(12 years I think) I think that an oncologist is a very interesting job but it isn't for me. Once again thank you so much for coming and talking about your job!!!!!
-Lexi
There are different types of leukemia. Some are very curable, and others are harder to treat.
Deletethank you I really liked you're presentation and I had question: how do you prevent cancer? but your job is really interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe number one thing to do to prevent cancer is to avoid smoking.
DeleteDr. Hasset,
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching us about oncology. I never knew that some cancers were curable until you came. I also learned what was oncology.
The radiation was interesting too. I never knew that radiation could treat cancer. I also learned that certain people can get cancer more commonly like by race, gender, age, etc. And again, thanks for coming to our class to teach us about your job.
-Colin
Thanks so much for coming to our class to tell us about what you do and how you do it! It was really interesting to listen to what you had to tell us about your job. I'm greatfull that you did not make that Quiz you were talking about. Even though you did explain things thoroughly and told us a lot I still have a few questions. First, you said that cancer can be caused from two genes being always turned on or never/not often on, but how and what would make the gene turn off or turn on all the time? Also if cancer is when cells grow out of control is there a term for when cells don't grow or die rapidly? Or is there even such a thing? Are cancer cells still part of the person's body? I mean that when a person has cancer can they feel through the cancer cells? If they do do you need to make sure to kill the cancer cells without harming them? Also, what type of cancer do you treat the most and what do you do to treat it? Kevin L.
ReplyDeleteYour question about cells not growing is interesting. There are medical conditions where cells get damaged easily and die too soon. they are not called cancer, but rather have different names. For example, anemia is a condition in which the body does not make enough red blood cells. It can develop if red blood cells die too quickly.
DeleteThank you so much for coming in. i really enjoyed your presentation and i thought it was cool how you do more than just treat cancer, but you design programs to help other doctors to treat cancer. I can't believe that i have lived across the street from you for this long and not known how awesome your job is! I wish my parents jobs were that cool. :)
ReplyDelete-May
Hello Mr. Hassett!
ReplyDeleteThank you SO, SO MUCH for coming! I really had a lot of fun. You had many interesting facts to tell us and I really like the sense of humor. I learned how cancer is created, that it's just rapid and extra growth of genes, which I did NOT know before. Again, I thought it was very interesting and it was fun. Thanks for coming!
-Bobby Lovett
Thank you for coming in and teaching us about your job. Before, I would have gotten ZERO on the Quiz you gave;] after, 100% thanks again
ReplyDelete~Max
Thank you for coming to our class to tell us about oncology it was very interesting to learn about your job and I heard about that you were going to test us with a test I was very grateful that you did not pass out the test you told us about at the start of the class. It was interesting about how you treated cancer but how do you kill cancer if it keeps on growing? Why when it is very rare many people I know have cancer? Why is it so famous when it is rare?I learned that there are a few ways to treat cancer radiation,medicine, and surgery. I also learned that cancer grows and that is is bigger than red blood cells. Hoped you enjoyed coming---- Eric Truong
ReplyDeleteI did enjoy coming. Thank you. If a cancer keeps growing despite the treatment we are using then we often switch to a different treatment that works in a different way in hopes that it might work even though the first treatment didn't.
DeleteThank you very much for coming into our class and teaching us about oncology. It was really interesting to learn about cancer and what it is. Once again thank you for coming in.
ReplyDelete----Samantha
You're welcome
DeleteThank you for coming. I really enjoyed your talk about what you do in your job. I liked all the stuff about the cells I found it very interesting. About when you go to meetings how many people were there? when did you say when you decided what you wanted to do the job you have today? Thanks again for talking about oncology.
ReplyDelete-Dan B.
I go to small meetings (a few hundred people) and big meetings (30,000 people). I chose a career treatment cancer when I was in my early 20's.
DeleteDr. Hasset,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for giving us your presentation! I think that your job is really cool and sounds fun and exciting. Here are the questions I have: If my grandma got skin cancer and I spend a lot of time outside, will I get skin cancer? What do people feel when they have cancer? Also, what is the most common cancer?
Thanks again!
-Bella
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US. Just because your relative got cancer or you spent time outside, that doesn't mean you will definitely get cancer.
DeleteDr. Hassett,
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to our classroom, and explaining us what oncology was, I really enjoyed learning about your career. A quick connection, my dad is also an oncologist, and today he left to Chicago, like you have explained which was really nice. Again, thanks for coming,
~Keren
Thank you. It's a small world. I hope your dad had a good trip.
DeleteDr. Hassett thank you for coming to our class and telling us about your job. It sounds very interesting. Sincerely Terrence.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
DeleteThank you very much for coming into our class and telling us what you do in your job. I thought what you do is amazing and very interesting. I think that it is really cool because what you do helps so many people.I didn't think that any cancer was able to be cured easily but now I know that some can. I thought that using radiation was an interesting way of curing cancer because I thought it was really dangerous to people and I would have never thought it to be a way for curing cancer. Thank you again for coming into our class!
ReplyDelete~Henry
Thanks for your blog entry.
DeleteThank you for visiting our class. I really learned a lot from what you taught. I think there should be more people doing your job because we need to look for cures for cancer.
ReplyDelete~Mahajah~
I enjoyed the visit. Thanks for having me.
DeleteHello, and thank you for the amazingly fantastic presentation you gave at school today. There was demonstrated a mixture of traits the likes of which was never witnessed by me. Humor and wit danced through the whole presentation, lightening the mood of what would otherwise have been a rather murky subject to discuss. Again, I thank you for putting the time and effort (which is valuable to everyone, especially an oncologist) into this presentation. But truly. Let’s get to the heart of things. So, I’ll try to recall some things I learned during the presentation. Well, actually, I learned a lot of things, so much in fact, that I wouldn’t care to fit it all here, unless, of course, you want to be staring at this screen for the next 5 trillion years, which I think is not a very productive thing to do. But there are a few major things I learned about that I would like to type down. First of all, I had my speculations confirmed about the authenticity of my claim that “oncology” was the study of the effect of genes upon cancer growth and cancer cells. Before this, I hadn’t quite grasped the meaning of the word, and I most certainly would have said that “oncology” was “the study of loud honking noises, due to a bizarre form of onomatopoeia which used the “onc” in “oncology” to symbolize a “honk””. Otherwise, the topic was still unclear to me until a coincidence (baader meinhof phenomenon) occurred just the day before you came to present. I was reading one of the daily articles in the mail and “poof”, there came an article addressing oncogenes. “Oncogenes?”, I thought to myself. I further delved into the topic, and was fascinated by the “scintillating” pages that addressed the topic of the possibility of using a new type of protein to turn off the oncogene and thus prevent cancer. That day, I had most of my previous misconceptions cleared up, and I realized my earlier mistake of comparing “onc” with “honk”. And thus, when you came the next day, baader meinhof applied, and I felt a light bulb (or rather a hydrogen bomb) go up in my head. I was gripped by your introduction, and noticed immediately that all my beliefs about cancer were totally incorrect. For example, I often told myself that cancer was a hereditary mutation, passed on from generation to generation. I found out that I was wrong, and that cancer was not always hereditary. I looked it up, and it turns out that since cancer only affects certain cells, rarely the zygotes, a gamete does not necessarily have to have cancer, because normal traits in the BRCA1 and 2 genes are passed on by the regular germ cells, and nothing really changes that during meiosis. (continued on next blog)
ReplyDeleteContinued...As well was learning about that, I had another misconception “busted”. I had once believed that almost 10% of the population had cancer. Now I know that the number is about .002 percent of the population. I also learned that erythrocytes have little to no dna, and so cannot really get cancer. In addition to that, I learned that leukemia was actually white blood cell cancer. I also learned that cancer is caused by either a “turning on” of the oncogene, which tells the cell to grow extremely fast, or a “turning off” of the tumor suppressor gene, which tells the cells not to grow fast. It also features a “turning off” of the apoptosis causing genes, which make the cell “commit suicide”. Cancer cells can grow extremely fast and are able to take up blood supply, squeeze and deform surrounding tissues, and cause aneurysms and hemorrhages that can kill you when popped. Cancer is very rare, and only occurs in about 2 out of 10,000 people. Once cancer is detected, it can be treated with many different mediums. These include chemotherapy, radiation, and use of clinical drugs to destroy the cancer cells. Other methods are being developed, but are not ready for use yet. There is also a type of tree bark which yields a chemical that can destroy cancer cells. Cancer is usually not deadly if treated early, and can result in no change in a person’s life whatsoever, as long as it isn’t given time to develop. But besides what I learned, I have a few questions and ideas I would like to share. First of all, does cancer affect people’s blood pressure? Second, is cancer edible? Third, can people use cancer weapons? Fourth, can anyone get cancer? Fifth, how does a carcinogen give you cancer? Sixth, why do people get cancer? And here are some ideas. Laser cancer cell removal system, which utilizes lasers to penetrate beneath the skin and destroy cancer cells. Apoptosis gene replacement, which uses a virus to induce apoptosis among cancer cells. And also, controlled marking of cancer cells, which marks all cancer cells according to a polymerase chain reaction result passed through a “ribosome” (artificial translation device, used instead of a ribosome) and analyzed, especially in the BRCA 1 and 2 gene areas. Again, thank you for the awesome presentation.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I wish that quiz was printed!
~Kevin Q.
Anyone has a chance of getting cancer, but most people don't. There are a few rare forms of cancer that can cause high blood pressure.
DeleteI love your presentation and how you didn't print out the test i was like "phew" when you said that. i hope you love coming in and showing us your job/stem job. i hope you had a nice time here.
ReplyDelete~Lucas P.
Yes, I had a great time. Thanks!
DeleteDr. Hassett,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming into our class this past week, and teaching us about what you do for a living. It was really interesting learning about what oncologists do, considering I didn't even know there was such a thing! I really enjoyed when you showed us pictures of healthy [arts of the body, and parts of the body that were cancerous. I also really liked when you told us about a few different types of cancer. I still have a few questions though. One is, is it possible to get cancer in your eye or in your lip? Also, is it possible to have a cancer in more than one place, at the same time? I'm really glad you didn't give us that test though :). I learned a lot of new things through your presentation, and now I might even consider being an oncologist! I also really liked your sense of humor. I really enjoyed your presentation.
Thanks again!
~Maddy
Cancer of the eye or lip, or getting cancer in more than one place can happen, but these are very rare forms of cancer.
DeleteThank you Mr. Hasset for telling the team what you do for a living. I'm grateful for you coming, and also want to thank you again, for you have taught me how cancer attacks it's unlucky victims. I also thank you for telling us how smoking causes cancer, which I thought interesting. Well, thanks one more for telling us about what you do and how you do it.
ReplyDelete-Chris T
You are welcome.
DeleteDear Dr. Hassett,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming to our class and teaching us about your job, oncology.
Ella P.
It was a pleasure visiting with your class.
DeleteI really enjoyed the lesson you taught to our class. It was very interesting.
ReplyDelete-Donya .W.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Delete"Thanks alot for coming in! i really liked your presentation and liked how you worked some humor into it. I can't believe you worked on your education for so long! i thought your presentation was very informative. thanks again for coming in!"
ReplyDeletesuki
I'm happy to hear that you liked it.
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