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  1. Cancer Unwrapped Teen Writing Contest

    Cancer Unwrapped is an annual teen essay writing contest, where teens share their impactful experience with cancer - whether it's a personal diagnosis or that of a loved one. Our 2024 contest is now closed. Winners will be announced in early May! ... Since the contest began in 2006, we have received over 8,100 submissions and handed out ...

  2. Cancer Pathways

    Since 2006, we have received over 8,100 submissions and awarded over $300,000 in cash prizes. Contest Details: Open to all students in grades 9-12. Entries must be in the form of an essay only and must not exceed 1,500 words. Contest Opens: November 13, 2023. Contest Closes: March 1, 2024.

  3. PDF high school students across America! Our National Teen Writing Contest

    Our National Teen Writing Contest is open to high school students across America! For the past 18 years, Cancer Unwrapped has given 20 students $1,000 in cash prizes for sharing their stories. Each year we receive honest, heartfelt, and unique stories from teens recounting their impact with cancer, either through their own battle or through a ...

  4. Teen Essay Contest home page

    Cancer Support Community Greater Philadelphia is holding its 11th annual Ben Strauss Youth Essay Contests for Teens to share their stories about how cancer has been in their ... The Teen Essay Contest is graciously sponsored by the Ben Strauss Youth Program. The Suzanne Morgan Center at Ridgeland 4100 Chamounix Drive Philadelphia, PA 19131 215. ...

  5. Cancer Unwrapped Teen Writing Contest

    Cancer survivor or have a loved one who was diagnosed with Cancer. Essays limited to a maximum of 1,500 words. Application Process. Submit your essay before the contest deadline. Essays must be original content of the author and in their own voice. Exclusions: poems, essays about pets, or fiction. Winners will be required to complete an IRS W-9 ...

  6. Quotes from Cancer Unwrapped Teen Writing Contest Winners

    When you are one of the lucky ones to be moving forward, every day is different.". " While writing my essay it was definitely hard. After going through such a hard journey it was difficult writing about it knowing how much stress and self damage it has caused me. On the other hand it was relieving, being able to have the opportunity to let ...

  7. ‎EnCOMPASSing Cancer: Cancer Unwrapped 2022: A teen winner shares her

    2022. Our Cancer Unwrapped teen essay writing contest culminated in May, with another successful year! In this episode, learn more about the contest and listen in as Lauren chats with one of the winners-Emme-about her writing process, going through the grief process, and what it felt like to find out she was a winner!

  8. 2023 Teen Essay Contest

    The Suzanne Morgan Center at Ridgeland 4100 Chamounix Drive Philadelphia, PA 19131 215.879.7733

  9. 9 Best Cancer Research Competitions for High School Students

    8. Cancer Unwrapped High School Essay Contest. Award: Prizes up to $1,000. Deadline: March 1, 2024. Competition Date: Winners are announced in the spring. The Cancer Unwrapped Essay Contest provides an excellent opportunity for high school students to express their thoughts and ideas about their experiences with cancer through well-crafted essays.

  10. 2024 Teen Essay Contest Results

    Teen Essay Contest . High School - 2024 Teen Essay Contest Winners. 1st Place. Carmen Bonner. The First Day of School. Click to Read Essay. 2nd Place. Marisa Nero. ... Cancer, My New Worst Enemy. Click to Read Essay. Julia LaBoy. The Unknown. Click to Read Essay. Brooklyn Camp. His Story. Click to Read Essay. Abigail Swenson.

  11. Cancer Pathways

    Cancer Pathways. · November 13, 2023 ·. It's officially the opening day for our 18th annual Cancer Unwrapped teen essay writing contest! In this episode, Lauren chats with one of last year's winners, Nadia. They discuss learning about the contest, her reaction to winning, and the impact of losing her dad. Nadia then reads her beautiful ...

  12. Essay Contest

    The Lasker Essay Contest engages early career scientists and clinicians from the US and around the globe in a discussion about big questions in biology and medicine and the role of biomedical research in our society today. The Contest aims to build skills in communicating important medical and scientific issues to broad audiences.

  13. Cancer essay topics

    Argumentative essay writing an essay contest. Free essay topics to be a persuasive essay on cancer, think through the listed topics for your essay topics. Below? Good collection of the speaker or speech: cervical cancer is bound to narrow the united states and breast cancer. If you are providing assistance for cancer in trouble having cancer.

  14. CANCER UNWRAPPED TEEN WRITING CONTEST

    This writing contest invites students of grades 9-12 to share their experience of learning of either their own cancer diagnosis or their loved ones. For this writing contest, participants must write a 1,500-word essay for a chance to earn $1000 in prize money. You can read past winning essays here and gain an insight into how to organize your ...

  15. Wakley Prize Essays

    The Wakley Prize essay competition is open to people who use health services and to anyone working in medicine, research, or a health-related field. You can be at any career stage - just starting out in your studies, established in your specialty, or looking back over decades of service. Submissions should be 1600-2000 words, should not have ...

  16. Cancer Unwrapped Teen Writing Contest

    Description. The Cancer Unwrapped Teen Writing Contest is open to high school students. To enter, you must submit an essay of no more than 1,500 words about your experience with cancer. Your essay can be about your own diagnosis or that of a loved one.

  17. Paul Kalanithi Writing Contest

    Paul Kalanithi was a physician writer and neurosurgery resident at Stanford University. In the final years of his training, he was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. His memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, beautifully chronicles his reflections on living with illness and the meaning of legacy. The Paul Kalanithi Writing Award was created in ...

  18. News

    Cancer Essay Contest. Posted 3/06/23 (Mon) Local Student Wins MRH Cancer Essay Contest. March 6, 2023 - Mobridge Regional Hospital in Mobridge, South Dakota announced the winner of its recent Cancer Essay Contest today. Mobridge-Pollock High School freshman Ellie Jahraus wrote the winning essay, Joy in the Journey, about experiencing her mother's thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment.

  19. Resident/Fellow Essay Contest Recipients

    Resident/Fellow Essay Contest Recipients. Best Clinical Research Paper: 2021: Oral Paper 43: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy-Associated Liver Injury in Pancreatic Cancer: ... 2013: Oral Paper 23: Understanding Race-Related Colorectal Cancer Survival Disparities Race-related Colorectal Cancer Survival Disparity, Uma R. Phatak, ...

  20. Essay

    The Saturday Essay. Solving the Cancer Mystery That Devastated My Family For decades, Lawrence Ingrassia wondered why so many of his loved ones got cancer. Then a team of dedicated researchers ...

  21. Living on Scan Time: My life after a cancer diagnosis

    Ever since the murky hour when, through an ethereal fog, I made out the silhouette of my surgeon beside the bed where I lay tethered to tubes, ever since I heard him utter the words, "Turns out ...

  22. 'A Fatal Inheritance,' by Lawrence Ingrassia book review

    Darrel Kilius, who as a baby had survived the soft-tissue cancer by having part of his right arm removed, was battered by tumors in his 20s and died at 29. The Ingrassia family fared no better.

  23. Rochester eighth grader wins local, district and state VFW ...

    Her essay was one of more than 73,000 essays submitted nationally for the 2023-2024 Patriot's Pen contest, according to the VFW's website. On Tuesday, May 14, Hammack and her family were in ...

  24. Greene County Students Receive iPads In Essay Contest

    In the beginning, the fund awarded essay winners complete sets of encyclopedias. Now, iPads are awarded so students can access the encyclopedia information and much more. The essay contest is held in a different county in the college's service area each year on a rotating basis.

  25. Bayer wants legislative help to fight its cancer lawsuits

    Essay; Schools brief; Business & economics. ... Detractors point to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which said in 2015 that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic to humans ...

  26. N.J. Sen. Bob Menendez says his wife Nadine has breast cancer amid

    Nadine Menendez, wife of Sen. Bob Menendez, leaves Manhattan federal court last week. Nadine Menendez has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a statement from the senator.

  27. The 2024 Foley poetry contest: art that pierces and disrupts

    The only unfortunate thing about the winner of this year's Foley Poetry Contest, "The Patron Saint of Sliding Glass Doors," is that when I read the title, I immediately thought of the 1998 ...