Cancer in sentence

2021 examples of Cancer in a sentence

So now that I'd found a reliable protein I could detect, I then shifted my focus to actually detecting that protein, and thus, pancreatic cancer.

Making a cancer sensor out of paper is about as simple as making chocolate chip cookies, which I love.

You start with some water, pour in some nanotubes, add antibodies, mix it up, take some paper, dip it, dry it, and you can detect cancer.

I can't really do cancer research on my kitchen countertop.

This makes it 168 times faster, over 26,000 times less expensive, and over 400 times more sensitive than our current standard for pancreatic cancer detection.

One of the best parts of the sensor, though, is that it has close to 100 percent accuracy, and can detect the cancer in the earliest stages, when someone has close to 100 percent chance of survival.

And so in the next two to five years, this sensor could potentially lift the pancreatic cancer survival rates from a dismal 5.5 percent to close to 100 percent, and it would do similar for ovarian and lung cancer.

And that our hearts will be rid of that one disease burden that comes from pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer, and potentially any disease.

My mental health status had been a catalyst for discrimination, verbal abuse, and physical and sexual assault, and I'd been told by my psychiatrist, "Eleanor, you'd be better off with cancer, because cancer is easier to cure than schizophrenia."

And so, tired people tend to have higher rates of overall infection, and there's some very good studies showing that shift workers, for example, have higher rates of cancer.

Themes have included runs for the environment, breast cancer, for the love of Lebanon, for peace, or just simply to run.

Now, if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS and homicide.

No one has traveled faster than the crew of Apollo 10, and blithe optimism about technology's powers has evaporated as big problems we had imagined technology would solve, such as going to Mars, creating clean energy, curing cancer, or feeding the world have come to seem intractably hard.

President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, but we soon discovered there are many kinds of cancer, most of them fiendishly resistant to therapy, and it is only in the last 10 years that effective, viable therapies have come to seem real.

Whatever life throws at us, whether it's cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or even broken bones, we want to try and get better.

So when we found the cancer, it doesn't seem strange to us at all that without saying a word to each other, we believed that, if we were smart enough and strong enough and brave enough, and we worked hard enough, we could keep him from dying ever.

Then there was a setback when the pathologists looked at the kidney cancer closely.

So a year goes by before the cancer, as cancers do, reappears, and with it comes another death sentence, this time nine months.

And then more years pass, and the cancer begins to grow.

They're going to attack the cancer in new ways.

The cancer begins to shrink, and for the third time, we've dodged death.

Erik, my father-in-law, he suffers from prostate cancer, and he probably needs surgery.

If you have brain cancer, and you say that standing on your head for 20 minutes every morning makes you feel better, it may make you feel better, but you still have brain cancer, and you'll still probably die from it.

In the summer of 2009, my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer.

If you're a man in the US, you've got about a one in two chance of being diagnosed with cancer during your lifetime.

If you're a woman, you've got about a one in three chance of being diagnosed with cancer.

Everybody knows somebody who's been diagnosed with cancer.

Now, my dad's doing better today, and part of the reason for that is that he was able to participate in the trial of an experimental new drug that happened to be specially formulated and very good for his particular kind of cancer.

There are over 200 kinds of cancer.

And what I want to talk about today is how we can help more people like my dad, because we have to change the way we think about raising money to fund cancer research.

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