| 单词 | cancer |
| 例句 | She was a regular—in a long remission from appendiceal cancer, which I had not previously known existed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z ‘Hmm . Imperial gold sword wound, but that’s healed nicely. No cancer, no heart problems. Watch that mole on your left foot, but I’m sure it’s benign.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Some sort of rare cancer, Mom told us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Within one year, cancer becomes little more than a nuisance—curable with one treatment and no side effects. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Gey and his wife, Margaret, had spent the last three decades working to grow malignant cells outside the body, hoping to use them to find cancer’s cause and cure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The story said her name was Helen L., “a young woman in her thirties when she was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with an incurable cancer of the cervix.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z To find out why, let’s look at the conditional probability of your having cancer, given that you’ve tested positive. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The cancer had come back, but the doctors were optimistic she could beat it again. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I’m taken to the doctor’s once a month, for tests: urine, hormones, cancer smear, blood test; the same as before, except that now it’s obligatory. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Experiments show that the younger the animal is when it is subjected to a cancer-producing agent the more certain is the production of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then they tell us black people have a worse kind of breast cancer and get more fibroids. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Some mistook cervical infections for cancer and removed a woman’s entire reproductive tract when all she needed was antibiotics. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “His liver was . . . gone. His heart . . . dried up. You can’t get transplants from a cancer patient.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe grew into the meanest, angriest child any Lacks had ever known, and the family started saying something must have happened to his brain while he was growing inside Henrietta alongside that cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z With the help of Slavin’s serum, Blumberg eventually uncovered the link between hepatitis B and liver cancer, and created the first hepatitis B vaccine, saving millions of lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And this commitment to charity reminds the cancer person of the essential goodness of humanity and makes him/her feel loved and encouraged because s/he will leave a cancer-curing legacy. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She spent many hours at the hospital, St. Joseph’s, in the cancer ward, climbing into bed with April, talking about life and its purpose, and religion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z While my family’s history of mental illness was cutting through my consciousness like a red line, my scientific work as a cancer biologist was also converging on the normalcy and abnormalcy of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z TeLinde, one of the top cervical cancer experts in the country, was a dapper and serious fifty-six-year-old surgeon who walked with an extreme limp from an ice-skating accident more than a decade earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z New programs to treat cancer and other chronic diseases are growing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I argued with Mom that I should have slightly more than half of the suitcase, since without me and my cancer, we’d never be going to Amsterdam in the first place. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Then, at twenty-one, Grandma Jenny was diagnosed with cervical cancer and had a hysterectomy. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I told that to my science teacher once—that preservatives cause cancer—and he laughed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He and many other scientists believed that cancer was caused by either a virus or an immune system deficiency, so Southam decided to use HeLa to test those theories. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Today, more American school children die of cancer than from any other disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He invited researchers from around the world to present scientific papers on cancer in minorities, and he petitioned the city of Atlanta to name October 11, the date of the conference, Henrietta Lacks Day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A deficiency of these vitamins has been found to accompany mouth cancer and perhaps cancer of other sites in the digestive tract. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I just wish the whole thing hadn’t happened sometimes. The whole cancer thing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Yet no one knew whether a person could actually catch cancer from HeLa or other cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The new cells resulting from these divisions have the same ability to escape control, and in time enough such cells have accumulated to constitute a cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I may not be able to cure cancer or end world hunger, but small kindnesses go a long way. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Henrietta told her cousins about the cancer at a carnival that came to Turner Station each year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then her uncle got cancer, and she had to quit school her senior year to take care of him. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Only a handful of hospitals in the States had the right equipment and experience to deal with cancer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He’d had cancer of the pancreas and in the end of the liver, and Ishmael had not been there at the final moment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Maybe she had cancer and didn’t want to tell us and was hiding in Idaho. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “So did her cancer—it came from a DNA mistake.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Obviously you might cure a cancer of the womb by not having a womb in the first place. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Natural chemicals in red wine called flavonoids are thought to fight cancer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His wife, Sophie, a stunning Sicilian woman whose picture on his desk I had long been in love with, was dead nearly five years from cervical cancer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Multiple genetic mutations are identified in human cancers, leading to a deeper genetic understanding of that disease. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Elizebeth was back in Indiana by then, taking a leave of absence from Riverbank so that she could look after her mother, who was dying of cancer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Parker is smiling like what she’s about to tell me is that she found the cure for cancer. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “If I’d seen how far he’d gone downhill, I wouldn’t have stopped the process. Why? On what grounds? We didn’t know until he got to Boston that the cancer had invaded the vertebrae.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “And he was just feeling good again. His hair was just starting to grow back. And now the cancer’s back and he has to start all over again.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Some students at Truman who were her classmates in the early grades of elementary school, when she was still in treatment, know of her childhood cancer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Investigators at the Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University found two thirds of 150 cases of uterine cancer studied by them gave evidence of abnormally high estrogen levels. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Her health is great—cancer’s gone, heart’s good, no other real problems—but her mind is a balloon with a slow leak. Sometimes I think…” Audrey looked at me when I didn’t finish. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z See what I mean about cancer turning everything upside down? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When Roosevelt was a sophomore in college, his father died of cancer, and he retreated to his family’s country home in Oyster Bay, New York. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “I want to tell them a little what HeLa means to me as a young cancer researcher, and how grateful I am for their donation years ago,” he wrote. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He also injected them into rats to see if they’d cause cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But Hsu hadn’t said anything about testing the children for cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The radiation treatments were just to make sure there were no cancer cells left anywhere inside her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He gave viewers a basic overview of cell structure and cancer using diagrams and a long wooden pointer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We entertain ourselves by trying to figure out which disease they’ve got, and we’ve reached the conclusion that they suffer from cancer, smallpox and measles. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Other investigators point to the fact that the chromosomes in cancer tissue are unstable; they tend to be broken or damaged, the number may be erratic, there may even be double sets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Things weren’t as ugly as they could have been — the cancer hadn’t gone to other systems — but they weren’t great, either. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, with Gey anesthetized on the operating table, surgeons opened him up and found that the cancer was inoperable —growths covered his stomach, spleen, liver, and intestines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Though it wouldn’t have changed Henrietta’s treatment, this new diagnosis could help explain why the cancer spread throughout her body so much faster than her doctors expected. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Smoking is without doubt a significant contributory cause of cancer, lung and heart disease, but there are confounding factors having to do with life-style and environment which partially obscured this fact for some years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was done eight years ago in New York City by Dr. Chester Southam, a cancer specialist who injected live cancer cells into chronically ill elderly patients.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Through all of it, the voices in your head are still talking at you, but they’re too stoned to have much impact, and you realize this isn’t all that different from chemotherapy for cancer. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She still thought she was being tested for cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Ulcers, glaucoma, gastritis, gangrene, cancer, broken limbs, malnutrition, and a host of infectious diseases—almost everything came through the doors of Zanmi Lasante. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But when I explained to her that the Lackses thought she was testing them for cancer, and that they were upset about scientists using the cells without their knowledge, she was shocked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I don't know what kind of cancer Mr. Rufus has, but I know he's had it for a long time. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But it’s not a cancer book, because cancer books suck. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z This, too, is extremely important, for other chains of evidence show the protective role of these vitamins against cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She doesn’t want to be known as the girl whose dad has cancer. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know anything about SPF? Skin cancer?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Twelve per cent of all deaths in children between the ages of one and fourteen are caused by cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Southside died a month later after having suffered with advanced lung cancer, his long-held view that doctors were untrustworthy having kept him from any sort of timely intervention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Warners stayed free in a condo that belonged to Neal Harris, Terryl’s old friend from Southern California who had been engaged to April before she died of cancer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In fact, before his career was cut short by cancer, Bickel would become perhaps the finest constitutional scholar of his generation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But when he instructed his staff to give the injections without telling patients they contained cancer cells, three young Jewish doctors refused, saying they wouldn’t conduct research on patients without their consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Our chances of escaping lung disease may be 95 percent; dementia, 90 percent; cancer, 80 percent; and heart disease, 75 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your cancer is not going away, Hazel. But we’ve seen people live with your level of tumor penetration for a long time.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But to the three doctors who refused to help with Southam’s research, injecting cancer cells into a person without consent was a clear violation of basic human rights and the Nuremberg Code. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I said Scout and Jem should be nicer to their mom because she is probably dying of cancer and one day will not be able to come back and fix them breakfast. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z What I found out later was that a couple of hours before she picked me up she had learned she had cancer. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z "Immortality is a sickness—a cancer. Your cells renewing and renewing endlessly." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her grandmother, Gloria Grace, the woman who Grace shared her name with, had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer a month before Grace had been born, and died right after Grace’s first birthday. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I should feel lucky it’s not something really bad, like cancer or some rare flesh-eating bacteria. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Sleep fights cancer, Regular Dr. Jim said for the thousandth time as he hovered over me one morning surrounded by a coterie of medical students. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He repeated this process with about a dozen other cancer patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Once the doctors had him on the operating table and opened him up, they saw that he had cancer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Why did she think people were dying of cancer? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Of course, not thinking, I pulled out what had to be at least ten cancer pamphlets. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Every decade has had its landmark moments in HeLa research, and the connection between HPV and cervical cancer was only one of several in the eighties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Dear Granddad, I just rode in a 5K bike ride for cancer research. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Regardless, Hyman wrote, “I was informed that consent was not necessary . . . that it was unlikely that Jewish patients would agree to live cancer cell injections.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Gram can no more help me now than I could have saved her from her cancer. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The truth was, by then, the cancer in Baba’s brain had made him forgetful, negligent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Well, breakfast was sort of like that, only instead of the clothing problem, we had an unmentionable cancer problem. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For better or for worse, being involved with cancer puts you on everybody’s radar screen. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “He looks just like my girl friend’s father did, and he had cancer.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I slept for a long time, ten hours, possibly because of the slow recovery and possibly because sleep fights cancer and possibly because I was a teenager with no particular wake- up time. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Despite the spread of HeLa and the flurry of new research that followed, there were no news stories about the birth of the amazing HeLa cell line and how it might help stop cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It’s like being told I have cancer and might need a part of me removed—the part called starting point guard. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Could you get cancer as a child and then again when you were old? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The problem that concerns us here is whether any of the chemicals we are using in our attempts to control nature play a direct or indirect role as causes of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet to prevent cancer from ever being formed is “definitely more humane” and can be “much more effective than cancer cures.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They learned that HPV inserts its DNA into the DNA of the host cell, where it produces proteins that lead to cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But her diagnosis had come late, after the cancer had advanced, and it was difficult to know what would happen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z So when TeLinde offered him a supply of cervical cancer tissue in exchange for trying to grow some cells, Gey didn’t hesitate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At this point, cancer cells may be said to have been created from normal body cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Like a wound, or a cancer, or just something that doesn’t belong there.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I’d never been anything but terminal; all my treatment had been in pursuit of extending my life, not curing my cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He was like a scientist who had pursued the root of cancer all his life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Phalanxifor had introduced a measure of ambiguity to my cancer story, but I was different from Augustus: My final chapter was written upon diagnosis. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “She was the first person to get this treatment, and the neutrons cured the cancer completely,” he reported. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Is this your first brush with the ever-rampant cancer known as racism?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z My dad was there, sitting on the closed toilet seat, trying to be comforting, but he really hadn’t gotten his bearings yet with this cancer situation. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The room buzzed with excitement as everyone talked about cell cloning and hybrids, mapping human genes, and using cultures to cure cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Victims of cancer or car accidents, once they heard my story, they hobbled and wheeled over to see me, they and their families, though none of them spoke English and I spoke no Spanish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was almost gone, and her body was just a wisp, but you could tell that she had been gorgeous before the cancer. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I think my school friends wanted to help me through my cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn’t. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Oh, so sorry to hear about your cancer. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "This cancer business,” he said, "does anybody know if it’s contagious?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After his cancer was cut out of him, the doctor had prescribed as many apples as he could stand, and he ate a lot of them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He died of lung cancer maybe three years ago. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A well-known example involves the moderate correlation between milk consumption and the incidence of cancer in various societies. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, it’s gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The drug was Phalanxifor, this molecule designed to attach itself to cancer cells and slow their growth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z To Lawrence’s gratification, the council also voted to spend up to $100,000 a year for the next two years to “stimulate” cyclotron-based research into cancer treatment around the country. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Also, if anyone out there ever wants to experience the ultimate in crippling guilt, I recommend that you try beating a bald, bloated five-year-old cancer patient at a board game. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It is what physicians must now do for patients with intractable cancer, severe rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and advanced cirrhosis. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her about a cancer scare his dad had, and about a robotics project he was working on. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Wait a minute,” she said, “you mean none of our mother regular cells still livin? Just her cancer cells?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The day after I made the shot, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Finkles cause cancer. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z For the next several days, Deborah called Hopkins again and again, telling the switchboard operators, “I’m calling for my cancer results.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z His silence on the slavery question was strategic, believing as he did that slavery was a cancer on the body politic of America that could not at present be removed without killing the patient. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not talking about painting the Mona Lisa or curing cancer. I’m just talking about moving that one grain of sand one millimeter.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Just as environmental cancers are induced by a wide variety of chemical and physical agents, so the malignant condition itself is manifested in many different and biologically distinct ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There’s no easy way to say this. You see...Cutie Pi is sick. Very sick. He has cancer.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This phenomenon was exciting for researchers trying to understand the mechanisms of cancer, because it suggested that they might be able to study the moment a normal cell becomes malignant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the controversy that followed seizure of contaminated cranberries by the Food and Drug Administration, the fact that the chemical actually is cancer producing was widely challenged, even by many medical men. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z According to Howard Jones and other gynecologic oncologists I talked with, the correct diagnosis wouldn’t have changed the way Henrietta’s cancer was treated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z When I talked to Howard Jones fifty years after he found the tumor on Henrietta’s cervix, he was in his early nineties and had seen thousands of cervical cancer cases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There is still the conspicuous asymmetry between molecular biology and, say, the therapy of lung cancer. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctors found squamous cell cancer in a small mole they removed from Ma’s face, a condition caused by too much exposure to the sun. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured I'd be dead in a couple of months because I had cancer. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Warning patients about fertility loss before cancer treatment was standard practice at Hopkins, and something Howard Jones says he and TeLinde did with every patient. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I’m a BK amputee too. I lost mine to cancer when I was a kid.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Merely by systematically withholding oxygen, experimenters have caused normal cells to turn into cancer cells, as we shall see in the following chapter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After he had been diagnosed with cancer, a newspaper campaign calling for his release on humanitarian grounds had influenced the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I woke up with a cold sweat. And fever. And three different types of cancer. And a touch of rabies.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured the heat was terrible, and she probably had cancer, and—I don’t know. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z She wore the same bright outfits in the preemie ward, the kids’ cancer ward, the children’s burn unit. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z More than thirty years after Henrietta’s death, research on HeLa cells finally helped uncover how her cancer started and why her cells never died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Grandma was seeing a lot of doctors these days, because she had cancer in her bone marrow. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But to study cancer, I realized, is to also study its obverse. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The same type of cancer as my uncle. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The longest she had been away was a week when she went to visit her cousin Ruth, who had cancer, but Ruth lived in Manchester. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In a move many believe was intended to distract attention from the Vietnam War, Nixon announced that scientists would cure cancer within five years, just in time for the United States Bicentennial. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My mom won’t buy us any because she says it’s nothing but sugar mixed with chemicals to make it neon colors, and it’ll give you cancer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Arsenic, the environmental substance most clearly established as causing cancer in man, is involved in two historic cases in which polluted water supplies caused widespread occurrence of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Does that burn look like it’s going to give him skin cancer?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At one point he said, “Now let me show you a bottle in which we have grown massive quantities of cancer cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It seemed as if all the realities of living there had finally settled in his mind, like hearing a final diagnosis of terminal cancer. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Dr. Hueper has little patience with the wishful thinking that promises “a magic pill that we shall take each morning before breakfast” as protection against cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It occurred to him that he probably had cancer of the throat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z It turned out that at the age of thirty-one, Moore had hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells until it bulged like an overfilled inner tube. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “No, my grandma, she died from cancer right before Maya was born,” Grace said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They quoted one man saying, “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried. You lie there on your bunk knowing you’ve got cancer in your arm. . . . Boy, what you think about!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Southam removed some of the nodules to verify that they were cancerous, but he left several to see if the patients’ immune systems would reject them or the cancer would spread. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Researchers raced to find what they believed to be the elusive cancer virus, with hopes of developing a vaccine to prevent it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Pauline Hawthorne, she learned, had died of brain cancer in 1982. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The more she thought of it the more she thought that it might, after all, be a cancer. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, I find that everyone knows about this cancer. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Another woman with the same mutation might develop an indolent variant; and yet another might not develop breast cancer at all. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then he announced that he was leaving Valley Forge to undergo treatment for his advanced-stage cancer. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “It is quite possible that from fundamental studies such as these that we will be able to learn a way by which cancer cells can be damaged or completely wiped out.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This, as everyone knows, is true of radiation, which kills cancer cells but may also cause cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They worried that cutting into the cancer might kill him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And with each new injection, their bodies responded faster, which seemed to indicate that the cells were increasing the inmates’ immunity to cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She was terrified that she might have cancer, and consumed with the idea that researchers had done —and were perhaps still doing—horrible things to her mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Maybe you’ll think it’s nuts that the brother of a cancer patient would feel lucky, but at that instant, I most surely did. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Like, in cancer books, the cancer person starts a charity that raises money to fight cancer, right? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She slides her palms across each other, as if throwing the cancer away. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Another example of a technically correct yet misleading statistic is the fact that heart disease and cancer are the two leading killers of Americans. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most impressive theories of the origin of cancer cells was developed by a German biochemist, Professor Otto Warburg of the Max Planck Institute of Cell Physiology. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Agent Orange was later linked to cancer and birth defects in Vietnamese and Americans who were heavily exposed to it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z By their elimination the total load of carcinogens would be enormously lightened, and the threat that one in every four will develop cancer would at least be greatly mitigated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Part of the public trust in such an eventual outcome results from the misconception that cancer is a single, though mysterious disease, with a single cause and, hopefully, a single cure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s not cute and curious; it’s the cancer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Once there is a cure for cancer, it’s definitely largely because of your mother’s cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z One time a cancer the size of a quarter popped out of her right nipple. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She started organizing information into carefully labeled folders: one about cells, another about cancer, another full of definitions of legal terms like statute of limitations and patient confidentiality. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I mean the cancer’s back,” she answered, her voice sounding almost mean. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As a three-year survivor of Stage IV cancer, I can tell you that you got everything right in An Imperial Affliction. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z True, it had been noticed that skin cancer was prevalent among workers exposed to arsenic fumes in copper smelters and tin foundries in Cornwall and Wales. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His father had died of stomach cancer; his mother had gone to live in Fresno, where Kabuo’s sister had married a furniture merchant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a relief to know she had the power of speech, but I was struck again by the power of cancer to get attention. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All of it, the cancer, the death—all of it angered him and he wanted nothing now but to get the Frog underway and sail from this spot. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then another trauma: His beloved older sister Kathleen got very ill, first with cancer and then from the radiation treatment. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1961 an epidemic of liver cancer appeared among rainbow trout in many federal, state, and private hatcheries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The baldness that told the world: This kid’s got cancer. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If this cancer was going to kill him, he wanted it to help advance science in the process. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I said Scout and Jem should be nicer to their mom because she is probably dying of cancer and one day will not be able to come back and fix them breakfast. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Deborah was still waiting to hear the results of what she thought was her cancer test, and Sonny and Lawrence were still busy trying to figure out how to get money from Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It’s kind of hard to focus on driving your son to school and watching him do his homework when you’re strapped to a hospital bed, busy trying to keep cancer from killing you.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z All of us—who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries—were, instead, black victims of the white man’s American social system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked Devon about it and he said that was crazy and I shouldn’t blame Mom for having cancer and dying. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The cancer was easy to keep secret, because she only had to go back to Hopkins once, for a checkup and a second radium treatment. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z So serious has this situation become that Boston has established the first hospital in the United States devoted exclusively to the treatment of children with cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When she broke the news that her aunt Norma had terminal cancer a couple of years ago, she bought Popkenchurch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Not that I know of. Are you wondering about her cancer? Because I don’t think anyone could have seen that coming. That’s just the way life is sometimes, you know?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z What happens in a cell to change its orderly multiplication into the wild and uncontrolled proliferation of cancer? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If people have cancer, shouldn’t they seem sick? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z So he might not even have cancer, right? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Just three weeks after Henrietta’s name was first published, Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and launched the War on Cancer, designating $1.5 billion for cancer research over the next three years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Her husband, upstairs in their apartment, was dying of cancer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Another path to cancer may be by way of the chromosomes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And she was horrified by reports of a “psychic healer” who, while conducting research into whether spiritual healing could cure cancer, attempted to kill HeLa cells by a laying on of hands. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “His grandmother has cancer. I didn’t know until he told me that evening.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z No storm surges, no debris fields—the Tap-Out is as silent as cancer. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z From the Internet I learned about the cancer that had been discovered on Bob Marley’s foot. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “All this time, there I was thinking you were dying a the cancer or sick in the head. Poor Miss Celia, all day long.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “But”—Hugo lit his own cigarette—“it's my duty to point out, this isn't just about smoking a humble cancer stick.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Ricardo, who was recovering from stomach surgery but slowly dying of bone cancer anyway, met him at Rael’s store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I arrived early, enough time for perennially strong appendiceal cancer survivor Lida to bring me up-to-date on everyone as I ate a grocery-store chocolate chip cookie while leaning against the dessert table. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “I already told you my story. I was diagnosed when—” “No, not your cancer story. Your story. Interests, hobbies, passions, weird fetishes, etcetera.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Moore’s cells produced rare proteins that pharmaceutical companies could use to treat infections and cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In May 2009 the American Civil Liberties Union, several breast- cancer survivors, and professional groups representing more than 150,0 scientists sued Myriad Genetics over its breast-cancer gene patents. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Other types of cancer may in time be found to have a relatively short latent period, also, but at present leukemia seems to be the exception to the general rule of extremely slow development. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Physician recommended diagnostics and referred to specialist for ruling out infection or cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I'm afraid that if I open the door a crack, the sorrow will never leave, will grow in me like a cancer. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With dramatic music in the background, the announcer said, “Tonight we will learn why scientists believe that cancer can be conquered.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It had been almost ten years since Papa had died of untreated prostate cancer. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “She died of cancer last night,” would come the reply. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta’s. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “But they didn’t tell me nuthin bout that. They just asked if they could cut her up see about that cancer.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The Coach of the Old Dominion Kiwanis has come to this hospital, to this strange outfield, to this old dominion of cancer, to this old dominion of death, coaching in the ward of the doomed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It causes lung cancer and other diseases, and it decreases the endurance of heart and lungs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That, as we will soon learn, is the ultimate disease of malfunctioning genes—cancer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They used hybrids to create the first monoclonal antibodies, special proteins later used to create cancer therapies like Herceptin, and to identify the blood groups that increased the safety of transfusions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Unlike old age or cancer, no one anticipates a suicide. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z And he had one of its most deadly forms: pancreatic cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But when she asked what kind of cancer her mother had, what treatments the doctors gave her, and what part of her was still alive, the family had no answers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z His father had owned an Italian restaurant, and his mother died of cancer when he was young. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Scientists who’ve gone ahead with research involving the breast- cancer genes without Myriad’s permission have found themselves on the receiving end of cease-and-desist letters and threats of litigation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A period of 15 to 30 years or even more has been demonstrated for some cancers caused by occupational exposures to chemical carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The other thing everyone knows him for is, well, cancer. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In 1990, a doctor told me I had cancer and months left to live. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “We learned that by studying cancer cells in culture,” Defier said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z One woman with the BRCA1 mutation might develop an aggressive, metastatic variant of breast cancer at age thirty. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Here and there, in research widely scattered and sometimes not undertaken as a cancer study at all, we see glimmerings of the first light that may one day illuminate this problem. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Other than that, he handed out cancer pamphlets and minded his own business. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z What is ‘diplopia’? A. Double vision B. Left-handedness C. A disease of the gums D. A form of cancer.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Just the important words like “cancer” and “out of remission” and “stage four.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The Lacks men didn’t think much about their mother’s cells or the cancer tests. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The doctor said his condition is hopeless; they think the cancer has spread to his lungs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “You must stop the cancer at your front door.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z To this day, neutron therapy as pioneered by the cyclotroneers in 1938 remains an important part of the arsenal against certain cancers, including those of the prostate and salivary glands. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As HeLa grew like crabgrass in laboratories around the world, a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought: What if Henrietta’s cancer cells could infect the scientists working on them? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Because there is no way on God’s green earth that you won’t have boatloads of it when you go out and cure cancer or discover another planet or something.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Wealthy research foundations were especially interested in isotopes for medical research and cancer treatment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Other than the horse one, you have to nod and agree with them that cancer and heart disease are totally normal and respectable ways to eat it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She’s trying to find a way to reach her mother, who died three years ago from some kind of cancer that only women get. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I thought how weird it was for Jeffrey to be driving past all these carefree people who had it made, on his way to fight the twenty-seventh installment of a life-and-death battle against cancer. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “As you can see, the cancer’s metastasized,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When Southam reported his results, the press hailed them as a tremendous breakthrough that could someday lead to a cancer vaccine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “They said they been doin experiments on her and they wanted to come test my children see if they got that cancer killed their mother.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called ‘Christian’ white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I lost my dog, Biscuit, to cancer. We had to...for him, so...we let him go.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z So, in May 1956, he placed an ad in the Ohio State Penitentiary newsletter: Physician seeks 25 volunteers for cancer research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “They said it would help his kids in case they come down with cancer. He had five kids, what was he going to do?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This was astounding–like someone saying he had found a cure for cancer but couldn’t remember where he had put the formula. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When pregnant mice are treated with this chemical not only do they develop cancer of the lung but their young do, also. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They also found that when they blocked the HPV DNA, cervical cancer cells stopped being cancerous. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He said this gravely, like he’d disclosed to me that she had breast cancer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He would later die of cancer, most likely caused by his regular exposure to radium, as would a resident who traveled with Kelly and also transported radium in his pockets. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I have cancer,” Suzanne told me, her voice husky with emotion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If he explained anything, he simply said he was testing them for cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “She was sick. With cancer. Your mother thinks I should have made her see a doctor sooner. Nana kept saying she had a backache. Her stomach was bloated out like a balloon....” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Mr. Ray went on to tell me that when Mr. Price found out his lung cancer was terminal, he started working on what he thought would be his best role ever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Any other news for us? Hospital call to say we got cancer or anything?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Judging by the present incidence of the disease, the American Cancer Society estimates that 45,000,000 Americans now living will eventually develop cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She had terminal cancer and wanted to die in her homeland. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This hole has spread around me like a cancer. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In those days, people didn’t talk about things like cancer, but Sadie always figured Henrietta kept it secret because she was afraid a doctor would take her womb and make her stop having children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z These survivors may then develop into cancer cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He points to the gray-and-pink tweed cap Nan bought me last Christmas in England, right before she was diagnosed with cancer. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It would produce skin cancer preferentially in light-skinned people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cutie Pi has cancer. He has a tumor at the base of his brain. You may have noticed that he tilts his head a lot.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I even got her to borrow a book from a doctor, which had large color plates of lungs that had been eaten away by cancer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I just don't want relaxers in my hair—there are enough sources of cancer in my life as it is. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Warburg’s ideas received confirmation in 1953 when other workers were able to turn normal cells into cancer cells merely by depriving them of oxygen intermittently over long periods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At that point, more than 15,000 women were dying each year from cervical cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In 1950, when he was thirty-eight years old, he developed cancer of the colon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Your mother has cancer, Eugenia. In the lining of the stomach.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Southam gave multiple cancer cell injections to each prisoner, and unlike the terminally ill patients, those men fought off the cancer completely. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He had lung cancer, something else Mr. Ray made it a point to say. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Here was this man, a man I always saw as the dude who beat cancer twice, the old guy across the street who ran the neighborhood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was no such thing as a “cancer test,” and even if there had been, McKusick’s lab wouldn’t have been doing one, because he wasn’t a cancer researcher. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Her doctors stopped the radiation treatment and seemed as defeated by the cancer as she was. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I mean, it seemed like a very nice place, and I was glad so many people cared about him, but I couldn’t imagine feeling that at home in a cancer ward. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The battle of living things against cancer began so long ago that its origin is lost in time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z And indeed a study made in Holland in the early 1950’s provides support for the view that polluted waterways may carry a cancer hazard. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “My dad split a long time ago. My mom got cancer when I was seventeen,” said Scott. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When I hung up, I went back to reading his wall: Just heard that Gus Waters died after a lengthy battle with cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z "Every plant here has medicinal properties. Somewhere in the Amazon forest there's a plant that will cure cancer." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It is also true of many of the chemicals now used against cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My mom said the words in a tone most would reserve for a cancer diagnosis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Afterward he walked through the snow to the Garden City depot, a work-worn old man, stooped and thinned-down by the cancer that would kill him a few months hence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z What is the code of normalcy before it becomes corrupted by cancer’s coda? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If I were exposed to it, I'd get so much cancer, the cancer would have cancer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “This one is cancer, right? And the rest are her normal ones?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Well, she ended up getting brain cancer—the exact kind she was doing the study on. The probability of that was like one in a million or something. How’s that for a coincidence?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Last fall, there were pink ribbons in the movie theaters and in all the stores, and someone told me it was for this type of cancer. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Soon tumors grew on the prisoners’ arms just as they’d grown in the cancer patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Vacant apartments are like a cancer, and the bad guys know that they are like cancers. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I then discover a cure for cancer just so I can say, "What was that you were carrying on about?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She thought about becoming a dental assistant, but was leaning toward radiation technologist so she could study cancer and help patients who were getting radiation treatment like her mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z That one out of eleven women will develop breast cancer is a much cited statistic. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know anything about cancer except it killed you. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And he zoomed in on one cancer cell, its edges round and smooth until it began to quiver and shake violently, exploding into five cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Not with her mom’s cancer coming back,” I say. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They’d been drained only a week before Gus died—I watched the amber cancer water dribble out of me through the tube— and yet already they felt full again. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He could fake the tests, report me for cancer, for infertility, have me shipped off to the Colonies, with the Unwomen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The next afternoon Serena called me and said that a top group of radiologists, pediatricians, and cancer doctors had just spent an hour studying John’s X-rays, bone scans, and CT scans. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Asian American men are most likely to die of cancer,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She stayed with the Friedmans for seven years, until her early death from cancer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For those in whom cancer is already a hidden or a visible presence, efforts to find cures must of course continue. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The press ran story after story about the brave men at the Ohio Penitentiary, praising them as “the first healthy human beings ever to agree to such rigorous cancer experiments.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Suzanne’s cancer was the first real challenge to that notion, a sabotage of my ideals. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z No black person I knew would ever say the word cancer. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Or had she already been diagnosed with cancer? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “But I believe miracles totally work? I know my aunt was cured of cancer in her church?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “This guy sounds like an alcoholic Kermit the Frog with throat cancer.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I told her he’d taken the blood for research on Henrietta’s cells, not to test her and her brothers for cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The association between arsenic and cancer in man and animals is historic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Tally thought of the lesions on Shay’s brain, the tiny cancers or wounds or whatever they were, that she didn’t even know she had. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Dr. Hueper believes that our situation with regard to cancer today is very similar to that which faced mankind with regard to infectious diseases in the closing years of the 19th century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A quarter century ago, cancer in children was considered a medical rarity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z All cancers originate from a single cell gone wrong and are categorized based on the type of cell they start from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In fact, any health practice, such as milk drinking, which correlates positively with longevity will probably do the same with cancer incidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But then I remembered Dad had survived his colon cancer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of his adult life, Jeff Martinelli has married three women and buried one of them, a cancer victim. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The correlation is probably explained by the relative wealth of these societies, bringing about both increased milk consumption and more cancer due to greater longevity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z First wife died of cancer five years ago. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor said, “He had cancer,” and hung up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I could think of few things sadder than kids with cancer. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z After building the rocket that took his beloved adopted country to the moon, he died of colon cancer in 1977. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The doctors hope she will recover, but we have never heard of cancer being cured. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother lay in an untended grave, a victim of throat cancer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Some help prevent or fight cancer; others fight infections. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One of the earliest pesticides associated with cancer is arsenic, occurring in sodium arsenite as a weed killer, and in calcium arsenate and various other compounds as insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were fertile red meadows of epithelial tissue to catch and coddle a cancer cell. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Then I read this other article about how you can tell if you have cancer or not. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z They made fun of my short hair, calling me a boy or claiming I had cancer. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And it was realized that workers in the cobalt mines in Saxony and in the uranium mines at Joachimsthal in Bohemia were subject to a disease of the lungs, later identified as cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Boredom has settled in like a cancer in the building, ready to eat away at their sanity. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His audible, almost desperate breaths reminded me of my grandfather when he was dying of lung cancer. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Just like if she had cancer, or was bleeding in the street.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The one tragic note of the visit was when I learned from Winnie that Bram Fischer had died of cancer shortly after being let out of prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For nine years she had battled the cancer in her bone marrow; now the contest was ending. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My mom died of cancer, which was no big secret, but hers died from a drug overdose. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nitrogen mustard, after all, is not sprayed upon whole populations from the air; its use is in the hands of experimental biologists or of physicians who use it in cancer therapy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After five years of treatment, the drug appeared to chase the cancer into remission. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That way, he’d know where to look when he reexamined the woman days, weeks, and months later, to see if Henrietta’s cancer was growing on her arm. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Farmer suspected some kind of cancer, but a diagnosis that would take only hours in Boston can take weeks when made between Haiti and Boston. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They tell someone they have incurable cancer and then everyone prays and TA-DA! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna try to get me some eye cancer just so I can make this guy’s acquaintance.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z My father said, “She does not have cancer, Sal. She does not have amnesia. Those are fishes in the air.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z She herself had had breast cancer, she said, and she had cured it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The history of cancer is long, but our recognition of the agents that produce it has been slow to mature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On September 13, seventy top cancer researchers from around the world would gather to present their research, he said, and hundreds of people would attend, including the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the surgeon general. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid of cancer and rats and Doberman pinschers.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was diagnosed with cancer a couple years after we first met. He died on October 30, 2001; he was only fifty-three years old.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It turned out those cells weren’t from Russian cancer patients at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Probably “the goal of curing the victims of cancer is more exciting, more tangible, more glamorous and rewarding than prevention,” says Dr. Hueper. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “First I heard about it was, she had that cancer,” he said, repeating the story he’d told dozens of reporters over the years, almost verbatim. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In Warburg’s theory we also find explanation of an otherwise incomprehensible fact — that one and the same agent can be useful in treating cancer and can also cause it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was another cancer doctor of some kind. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She whispers to us that it’s why the cancer rate is so high in America. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “She was smoking in the house? Just what Nicole needs, cancer in the air.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I wish that I were old enough to just go live in the Amazon and study the plants there, because it is possible that one of them holds the key to the cure for cancer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He also hoped to prove that women with carcinoma in situ needed aggressive treatment, so their cancer didn’t become invasive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She would not forget that he had a father who loved him, who took him in while she battled cancer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The one grandparent Molly remembers, her mother’s mother, died of cancer when she was three. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Coach asked me if it was true you had cancer.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I think Mrs. Wesley had had throat cancer years before, although I’m not sure. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He just doesn’t want to say he wants to boot the guy who’s just lost his mother to cancer. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Cancer Perks are the little things cancer kids get that regular kids don’t: basketballs signed by sports heroes, free passes on late homework, unearned driver’s licenses, etc. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care if it is a cure for cancer,” Ms. Owens said— and on that, I believed her. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z John had nasopharyngeal carcinoma, an extremely rare cancer that attacks the throat and nasal passages, but if the disease is caught early, 60 to 70 percent of patients can be cured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And a friend of my mother’s from Sacramento—Do we remember her after all these years?—died of cancer just last week. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I worried the cancer had spread from my lungs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z With its distinguished reputation, this was where other hospitals in the country sent their most difficult cases, including people dealing with cancer, serious burns, psychiatric conditions, and infectious diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “You should watch yourself, those cancers run in families. You told me once how your mother bit down on her lip whenever she was angry, just like you do. It’s crazy.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z None of us even dreamed that she would be dead six years later from a cancer in her liver. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d just handed me a copy of Medical Genetics, by Victor McKusick, and said, “I met this man cause he wanted some blood from me for some cancer tests.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Cities receiving their drinking water from rivers had a higher death rate from cancer than did those whose water came from sources presumably less susceptible to pollution such as wells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He says it was given to him by his father, who passed away two years ago after contracting cancer. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “It worked, but not fast enough. Michael got sick before his body could fight the cancer off....I didn’t save him.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Just one enzyme misfiring, just one wrong protein activation, and you could have cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z For a century or more after Pott’s discovery there seems to have been little further realization that certain of the chemicals in the human environment could cause cancer by repeated skin contact, inhalation, or swallowing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One morning a couple of years later when I was at Oberlin College, I went to my mailbox and found a letter from her telling me that her husband had died suddenly of cancer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Royalties from the book guaranteed his family a comfortable life long after he died of throat cancer, on July 23, 1885. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “This is about a week after she first went to the hospital with her cervical cancer,” I said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And I remember the day she told us that she had breast cancer, and explained that she’d known for a while but didn’t want to tell anyone until she knew she was dying. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z My big son, sick with the throat cancer. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I'll sometimes have dinner with a group of happily cured cancer patients, but for the most part I tend to keep to myself, ignoring the great mound of social invitations heaped upon my desk. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Assume further that .5 percent— one out of two hundred people—actually have cancer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His one obsession was to destroy what he called “the Marxist cancer,” which was slowly gaining ground among the people. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eat the wrong things, you get sick—everything from a stomachache to cancer to heart disease. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His buddies dragged him up the embankment to the white Jeep he’d bought using money from a cancer research award. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z While he was in his senior year of college, his father passed away in a house fire, and Justin himself battled and beat a rare form of cancer. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Throughout the eighties, using HeLa and other cells, scientists studied HPV infection and how it causes cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It would have the capability to produce neutrons ten times more energetic than those emitted by the twenty-seven-inch machine, an intensity that “would make it possible to carry on actual clinical therapy of human cancer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If we can rid ourselves of some of our chronic, degenerative diseases, and cancer, strokes, and coronaries, we might go on and on. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Research into HPV eventually uncovered how Henrietta’s cancer started: HPV inserted its DNA into the long arm of her eleventh chromosome and essentially turned off her p 5 3 tumor suppressor gene. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The lumberjacks and environmentalists love me equally, but a problem arises when a group of lesser scientists spread the rumor that the leaves of my trees cause cancer in laboratory animals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In early June, Henrietta told her doctors several times that she thought the cancer was spreading, that she could feel it moving through her, but they found nothing wrong with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Dad goes to work.Younger son goes to emergency room.Younger son allegedly has cancer. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This whole cancer mistake is all sorted out? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even cancer isn’t a bad guy really: Cancer just wants to be alive.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z That smile could end wars and cure cancer. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Most cervical cancers are carcinomas, which grow from the epithelial cells that cover the cervix and protect its surface. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As soon as he’d recovered enough from his surgery to travel, Gey began contacting cancer researchers around the country, asking who was doing research on pancreatic cancer and needed a patient to experiment on. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In December 1971, when Jones and his colleagues published their tribute to Gey in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, they reported that the original pathologist had “misinterpreted” and “mislabeled” Henrietta’s cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Then we do our experiments on them, like we find a new drug for cancer, pour it onto the cells, and see what happens.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And it was this, not the cancer but the strain it put on everyone, that formed the Low Cuts. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Since those patients had all had cancer to begin with, Southam wanted to see how healthy people reacted to the injections, for comparison’s sake. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He always talks to you as if he's informing you that you have terminal cancer—which is actually a big part of his job, so it makes sense. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “I mean, not like I have anyone to tell, really, but I didn’t want to be that kid, you know? The cancer kid.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Groups prone to primary liver cancer, as for example the Bantu tribes of Africa, are typically subject to malnutrition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Moore’s local doctor referred him to David Golde, a prominent cancer researcher at UCLA, who said that removing his spleen was the only way to go. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In fact, the cancer diagnosis came the day after retirement. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Ernest invited Stone to bring cancer patients from San Francisco for treatments at the thirty-seven-inch one or two days a week. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t think God gave us this any more than he gives little kids cancer, or makes poor people lottery winners,” I say. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He said he didn’t know much about breast cancer, but he did know that ice cream is the secret to feeling better when the treatment makes you feel sick. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As we exit, I turn my lens to the pink banners fluttering from the lampposts—ads for a fund-raising walk for breast cancer in a few weeks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They believed it was best not to confuse or upset patients with frightening terms they might not understand, like cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The road to cancer may also be an indirect one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Did you hear Miss Riley’s sick? Some kind of cancer.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Speaking of cancer, it was time to get rid of the RTG. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Greaves, the deacon at church, died of lung cancer. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She sat down on the bed and said, “I want to go to research labs and seminars to learn what my mother cells did, talk to people that been cured of cancer.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “What I have is called Hodgkin’s Disease. It’s a form of cancer that attacks the lymph nodes. Here.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Trout in both eastern and western parts of the United States were affected; in some areas practically 100 per cent of the trout over three years of age developed cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So I worked at a feverish pace, and I braced myself for cancer. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack lost his aunt Hinda to cancer fifteen years after she came to Kansas City. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z For a while, even cancer couldn’t keep Baba from the flea market. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I’d only been to Dover to go to France, and to Sunderland to visit Uncle Terry and to Manchester to visit Aunt Ruth, who had cancer, except she didn’t have cancer when I was there. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But first we have to walk through all the beep beep beeps it takes to get to the cancer ward. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “For instance, while I do think Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don’t think it’s accurate to say, ‘Chuck Norris’s tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.’ Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z And TeLinde began collecting samples from any woman who happened to walk into Hopkins with cervical cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They said they were being tested to see if they had the cancer that killed Henrietta, but according to the reporters, scientists were studying the Lacks family to learn more about Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I had an uncle who died from lung cancer,” I’d told him. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Of course, Henry chose a cancer ward—it was right there on the fact sheet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As long as they had food and warmth, Henrietta’s cancer cells seemed unstoppable. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Jeffrey had been diagnosed with ALL, which stands for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of blood cancer in which certain types of white blood cells become deformed and multiply rapidly. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In Cordoba Province in Argentina, however, chronic arsenic poisoning, accompanied by arsenical skin cancers, is endemic because of the contamination of drinking water derived from rock formations containing arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Let’s face it,” Southam responded, “there are relatively few skilled cancer researchers, and it seemed stupid to take even the little risk.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z One woman stood up and said, “Them cells cured me of my cancer, if I got cells that can help somebody like her cells help me, I say take em!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the coming years, Southam injected HeLa and other living cancer cells into more than six hundred people for his research, about half of them cancer patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z According to him, a majority of the cancer victims who’d been prayed for were out whooping it up on the town, while their counterparts in the control group had shriveled up and died. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The long latent period of most cancers is the time required for the infinite number of cell divisions during which fermentation is gradually increasing after the initial damage to respiration. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We didn’t say words like cancer,” he told me, “and we don’t tell stories on dead folks.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z After months of ignoring the bloody symptoms of his cancer, Dad finally passed out in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In one patient, Henrietta’s cancer cells metastasized to her lymph nodes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Now it’s diseases: heart attacks, cancer, the betrayals of the body. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Despite the warnings of cancer experts, carbamates are now widely used, not only as insecticides, weed killers, and fungicides, but also in a variety of products including plasticizers, medicines, clothing, and insulating materials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She was coping with medical appointments and surgeries and at the same time trying to care for her mother, who was also fighting an aggressive cancer that was, the doctors insisted, completely unrelated to Suzanne’s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer,” I told him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “But that doesn’t mean he’s dying, mija. So his cancer’s back. He’s beat it before. Mark’s always been a fighter. You know that.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She said she could stop a stroke by adjusting a chakra; that she could halt heart attacks using only energy; that she could cure cancer if people had faith. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the cancer has established a beachhead in his brain.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Those chemicals have been proven to cause cancer, damage nerve cells, and disrupt your endocrine system—your hormones. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Or is passion indiscriminate, incubating haphazardly like a cancer? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked Devon about it and he said that was crazy and I shouldn’t blame Mom for having cancer and dying. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept thinking about my shoulder, which hurt, and also I still had the headache, but maybe only because I’d been thinking about a girl who’d died of brain cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Mutations in these genes can lead to the accumulation of DNA damage—and thus, more mutations—ultimately leading to cancer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to hear that her mother’s cancer was in that DNA too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He argued that this would drastically reduce cervical cancer deaths, but his critics called it extreme and unnecessary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They were attacking the cancer with a new cocktail: two chemo drugs and a protein receptor that they hoped would turn off the oncogene in Gus’s cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Another mutagen known to produce cancer is urethane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z People came up to Deborah with tears in their eyes and told her that her mother’s cells had helped them overcome cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I would include a large amount of what is called mental disease, and most varieties of cancer, in this category. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheep kept near the smelters developed cancers of the nasal sinus; at their death arsenic was found in the brain, liver, and tumors. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The more education and income people have, the less likely they are to have and die of heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and many types of cancer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Now that everyone knows about Mother’s cancer, it is as if she’s let go of the few threads that kept her upright. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Why have we been slow to adopt this common-sense approach to the cancer problem? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A second, much older Halliday lies inside the casket, his body emaciated and ravaged by cancer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “No one’s expecting you to cure cancer or save endangered pandas,” Malcolm says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In humans, a mutant BRCA1 gene increases the risk for breast cancer—but not all women carrying the BRCA1 mutation develop cancer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z TeLinde set out to minimize what he called “unjustifiable hysterectomies” by documenting what wasn’t cervical cancer and by urging surgeons to verify smear results with biopsies before operating. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But normal human cells —either in culture or in the human body—can’t grow indefinitely like cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Radium causes mutations that can turn into cancer, and at high doses it can burn the skin off a person’s body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the three months following Rogers’s story, Jet, Ebony, Smithsonian, and various newspapers published articles about Henrietta, “one of the pivotal figures in the crusade against cancer.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It said if you had any sores in your mouth that didn't heal pretty quickly, it was a sign that you probably had cancer. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Even when her doctors said her cancer was in remission, I still felt the weight of death in Nana’s house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z By the 1940s, several studies —one of them conducted by Howard Jones, Henrietta’s physician—showed that radium was safer and more effective than surgery for treating invasive cervical cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Dr. W. C. Hueper of the National Cancer Institute has warned that “the danger of cancer hazards from the consumption of contaminated drinking water will grow considerably within the foreseeable future.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Its cell-destroying capacity is now clinically utilized in the treatment of a rare type of cancer which develops in the adrenal gland. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is now definitely cancer, she is already in the hospital and will be operated on shortly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s looking at her like she’s just cured cancer or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z My grandfather passed away from complications of stomach cancer in 2005. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The leftover medical bills from Mrs. Zimmerman’s cancer had all but wiped him out. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Everybody knows they will die someday. No one can stop death. It doesn’t matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Six years after my uncle's death, my grandfather died of cancer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In the view of these men any mutation is a potential cause of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In 1990 the Environmental Protection Agency found that Alar could cause cancer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z |
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