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Cancer in sentence

2021 examples of Cancer in a sentence

And when we revert the cancer cell, it again does this.
Two thousand and seven, five years ago, my wife gets diagnosed with breast cancer.
It was not even the initial shock of knowing that she had breast cancer at just 39 years old, absolutely no history of cancer in her family.
It has now been five years, slightly more than five years, and the good news, thank God, is that the cancer is still in remission.
People got very excited, there was talk of the Nobel Prize, and Alice really was in a big hurry to try to study all the cases of childhood cancer she could find before they disappeared.
And one thing that stood out to me was a statistic that said that the number of people in the United States with chronic wounds exceeds the number of people with breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer and leukemia, combined.
I have stage IV lung cancer.
My cancer isn't that aggressive.
They work on the cure for cancer and educating our children and making roads, but we don't have institutions that are particularly good at this kind of complexity.
It's here now, and in our family, my son has type 1 diabetes, which is still an incurable disease, and I lost my parents to heart disease and cancer, but I think that my story probably sounds familiar to you, because probably a version of it is your story.
It also happens in, for example, cancer research.
So in March, 2012, just one month ago, some researchers reported in the journal Nature how they had tried to replicate 53 different basic science studies looking at potential treatment targets in cancer, and out of those 53 studies, they were only able to successfully replicate six.
But it doesn't just happen in the very dry world of preclinical basic science cancer research.
This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
So the data that we collect for prostate cancer or for Alzheimer's trials goes into silos where it can only be used for prostate cancer or for Alzheimer's research.
So 45 percent of men develop cancer.
Thirty-eight percent of women develop cancer.
One in four men dies of cancer.
One in five women dies of cancer, at least in the United States.
And three out of the four drugs we give you if you get cancer fail.
My sister is a cancer survivor.
My mother-in-law is a cancer survivor.
People you don't know come in and look at you and poke you and prod you, and when I tell cancer survivors that this tool we created to protect them is actually preventing their data from being used, especially when only three to four percent of people who have cancer ever even sign up for a clinical study, their reaction is not, "Thank you, God, for protecting my privacy."
Two hundred and twenty-six billion a year is spent on cancer in the United States.
As you can see, I carry a 32 percent risk of prostate cancer, 22 percent risk of psoriasis and a 14 percent risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Ladies and gentlemen, and more importantly, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas — (Laughter) — for the next 17 minutes, I'm going to share with you my Movember journey, and how, through that journey, we've redefined charity, we're redefining the way prostate cancer researchers are working together throughout the world, and I hope, through that process, that I inspire you to create something significant in your life, something significant that will go on and make this world a better place.
So we started thinking about that, and we were inspired by the women around us and all they were doing for breast cancer.
And I started to research that topic, and discovered prostate cancer is the male equivalent of breast cancer in terms of the number of men that die from it and are diagnosed with it.
But there was nothing for this cause, so we married growing a mustache with prostate cancer, and then we created our tagline, which is, "Changing the face of men's health."
We had Mo Bros from Canada, from the U.S., and from the U.K. emailing us and calling us and saying, hey, there's nothing for prostate cancer.
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