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Cancer in sentence

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Thousands of patients every year lose their lives due to liver and oral cancer.
It can reduce our risks of cancer, heart disease and obesity.
It propelled me to go on and to co-lead a team that discovered the first cancer susceptibility gene, and in the intervening decades since then, there has been literally a seismic shift in our understanding of what goes on, what genetic variations are sitting behind various diseases.
And Mike, who I met at Galapagos, a trip which I won at TED, is leaving notes on cyberspace where he is chronicling his journey through cancer.
My first job was working for three months on a lung cancer unit.
In fact, about one of every three cancer deaths in the United States is caused by smoking.
And it’s not just lung cancer.
Smoking can cause cancer in multiple tissues and organs, as well as damaged eyesight and weakened bones.
After ten years, the chances of developing fatal lung cancer go down by 50%, probably because the body’s ability to repair DNA is once again restored.
A physicist cannot tell you, despite the claims of some of them, whether or not tobacco causes cancer.
The healthcare, late at night when they're worried about what sort of cancer somebody they care about might have, when they just talk across the Internet to somebody who they care about very much in another country.
Nine years ago, my sister discovered lumps in her neck and arm and was diagnosed with cancer.
From that day, she started to benefit from the understanding that science has of cancer.
It dramatically knocked back her cancer.
My sister's cancer story is a great example, and we could say the same of heart disease.
Consider cancer.
We've moved from an era of ignorance about what causes cancer, in which cancer was commonly ascribed to personal psychological characteristics, to a modern molecular understanding of the true biological causes of cancer.
And millions of cancer survivors like my sister find themselves with years of life that they didn't take for granted and new opportunities for work and joy and human connection.
You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly, in which there aren't things like childhood cancer or the Holocaust.
What we've discovered is you have to give them flowers and sunlight and food and expectations and Herbie's music, and you can cure a spiritual cancer every time.
Two out of five people in the US will develop cancer in their lifetime.
Metastasis is a spread of cancer from a primary site to a distal site, through the circulatory or the lymphatic system.
For instance, a female patient with breast cancer doesn't succumb to the disease simply because she has a mass on her breast.
And something that my team and I discovered recently was that cancer cells are able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement, based on how closely packed they are in the tumor microenvironment.
Now, like anything else in nature, when things get a little too tight, the signal is enhanced, causing the cancer cells to move away faster from the primary site and spread to a new site.
So, if we block this signal, using a drug cocktail that we developed, we can stop the communication between cancer cells and slow down the spread of cancer.
And I was tasked to look at how cancer cells move in a 3D collagen I matrix that recapsulated, in a dish, the conditions that cancer cells are exposed to in our bodies.
This was new and exciting for me, because previous work had been done on 2D, flat, plastic dishes that really weren't representative of what the cancer cells are exposed to in our bodies.
Because, let's face it, the cancer cells in our bodies aren't stuck onto plastic dishes.
It was at this moment that a light bulb went off in my head, and I thought, "Wow, I see this in my cancer cells every day, when it comes to their movement."
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