Cancer

*Bailey is walking into the doctor;s office to go

over the test results, she knocks on the door. *

Doctor: Come in please, take a seat, do you want anything to drink water?
Bailey: No thanks
Doctor: How about baileys mom?
Baileys mom: No thanks, you can call me Diana.
Doctor: Okay then lets gets to it, as you know you came in last week because you couldnt move
half of your body, and we took some test.
*Diana holds bailey hands as she wipes the sweat off her forehead.
Diana speaks with a shaky voice *
Diana: Did you find anything, is there any thing wrong with my daughter?
Bailey: Mom, let the doctor talk.
Doctor: Im afraid I have some bad news; these test results tells us that you have a tumor called
Brain stem glioma. Its a disease where benign and malignant cells form in the brain stem.
*Bailey cover her mouth with a hand not being able
to speak any words, while here mother got up from her seat and
walk around the room, and sat back down. *
Diana: What can we do? what are the treatment that we can do? will she be okay?
*she asked in a mouth rush, while tearing up*
Doctor: Were lucky we found that she only has focal brain stem glioma, this slow growing and is
usually in one area.
Bailey: How did this happens?
*she could barely muskier the words to talk*
doctor: I know you must have a lot of questions, and I can answer them. Cancer is the
uncontrolled cell growth, and mutation must have occurred.
Bailey: yes, Im learning this in my biology class. It has something to do with cell cycle.
Doctor: yes, the cell life cycle spends its time in the one of the two phases.
Bailey: yes, they are interphase and mitosis.
*she cried.*
Diana: What does this has to do with my daughter?
** the doctor got up and pointed at a chart in his
room**
doctor: well you see when the cycle its in interphase it goes through three different sections.
Gap 1 Its where the cell growth in size and prepares for s phase. The s phase is also known as
the synthesis and its where the DNA copy itself so that it can replicate, this is where the
mutations can occur in the DNA. Gap 2 is where the cell continues to grow in size. Then it goes

through mitosis where the cell growth stops and starts dividing. It may sometimes stay in Gap 0
for a while. This is where the cell rest.
**She asked worried**
Diana: why does the cell get a mutation in the DNA?
Doctor: when DNA replicates a DNA can occur for three reason we call them risk factor. This
increases your chance of cancer, but doesnt mean you will get cancer. One it can hereditary
conditions, two outside forces like sun, smoking, etc., and just being unlucky. The DNA doesnt
copy itself right.
**Bailey yawned**
Bailey: sorry, Im tiredI had to study for an exam
Doctor: Its all right, where was I.
Diana: What is D.N.A.
Bailey: I know this doctor
**she said with grin and a positive tone**
Bailey: There are four macromolecules, nucleic acid is the polymer and nucleotide is the
monomer, and D.N.A/R.N. A makes up nucleotides and nucleotides make up nucleic acid.
Doctor: thats right someone is paying attention in class.

** The Doctor gets up and brings them a pamphlet. **
**Diana reads out loud**
Diana: D.N.A and How its Replicates *was the tittle*. DNA is is a molecule that carries most of
the genetic instructions used in the development, functioning and reproduction of all known
living organisms and many viruses.
Doctor: Skip down to where it says Mitosis, but first read on how D.N.A replicates.
Diana: In interphase when the cell is in phase S is where D.N.A replicates. Im confused
Bailey: mom your embarrassing me.
Doctor: Its okay a lot of people dont get right way. Maybe this will help.
** doctor pulls out twizzlers**
Doctor: See this twizzlers is what happens in the S phase and it get pulled apart and gets a
complementary strand. This is called semi conservative replication, this helps so that less errors
can occur. Instead of recreating itself without a model.
Diana: errors?
Doctor: yes, errors, if the D.N.A doesnt replicate right it can cause a mutation, which can cause
cancer.
Bailey: arent there check points to make sure this cant happen?
Doctor: yes, but some times they can be suppressed, and not do there jobs.
Diana: How does base pairing work?
Doctor: D.N.A is made up of phosphate, deoxyribose sugar, nitrogenous base, and there two
different types of nitrogenous base. They are called purines and pyrimidines. There are two
purines called Adenine and Guanine, and there are two pyrimidines called thymine and
cytosine.
Bailey: number one rule is that purines has to be connected to pyrimidines.
Doctor: Adenine connects with thymine, and Guanine connects with cytosine.




Diana: Mitosis has five steps, the first step
**nurse comes in**
Nurse: sorry to interrupt, but you have another patient that is waiting for you.
Doctor: Lets make another appointment in a week to talk about treatments.
Diana: thank you for your time.
** Diana and bailey walked to the car and on the way home
they are both quiet, Diana opens the house door. **
Bailey: Im to get ready for bed.
** she told her mom as she walked up the stairs. While Diana
went to the kitchen and grabbed a wine of glass and poured
herself some wine, and went to the living room and sat down
on the sofa and took off her shoes. She started reading the pamphlet
the doctor gave her. **
Diana: Mitosis has five steps, the first step Prophase. Prophase is where the centrioles move to
the side of the cell. And the D.N.A which is nucleic acids in a strand become chromosomes. This
happens when D.N.A wraps around protein which is called a chromatin and when it condensed
becomes a chromosome. When two identical chromosomes come together, they connect by a
centromere which are known as sister chromatids.
Bailey: mom, have you seen my toothbrush?
Diana: check the bottom of the sink there should be a new packet
Bailey: thanks mom
**Diana keeps on reading**
Diana: prometaphase is where mictrotubes extend from the centrioles and start reaching for
sister chromatids. Metaphase attach to the centromere and buts the sister chromatids in a
line. Anaphase is the step where the sister chromatids get pulled apart. Telophase is where the
cell pitchs in and cytokinesis happens in animals is where the cell divides.
** Diana gets up from the sofa and takes the last drink of red wine and
heads up stairs. She opens her daughters room and walks in to kiss bailey on her head.
Bailey lays there pretending to be asleep as she hears her mom talk. Diana leaves. Bailey faces
the roof of her bedroom staring and looking for some answers. **
Bailey: I have cancer; I have an uncontrolled cell growth that is happening in me. I have
mutation that could have happen in interphase because of my D.N.A didnt copy right, or my
D.N.A didnt pair right, and why me? its not hereditary conditions and it wasnt because of my
environment, but because Im unlucky to have gotten a mutation.
** she fell asleep**

The End