Cancer in sentence

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They understood her breast cancer at the molecular level; they had no need to touch her breasts.

The good news, it's not cancer, it's not tuberculosis, it's not coccidioidomycosis or some obscure fungal infection.

It has this bizarre, ongoing philosophical project of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or prevent cancer.

Here are some of the things they said cause cancer: divorce, Wi-Fi, toiletries and coffee.

Some things they say prevent cancer: crusts, red pepper, licorice and coffee.

Coffee both causes and prevents cancer.

For women, housework prevents breast cancer, but for men, shopping could make you impotent.

So: "Red wine can help prevent breast cancer."

"A glass of red wine a day could help prevent breast cancer."

It's a description of the changes in the behavior of one enzyme when you drip a chemical extracted from some red grape skin onto some cancer cells in a dish on a bench in a laboratory somewhere.

But on the question of your own personal risk of getting breast cancer if you drink red wine, it tells you absolutely bugger all.

Actually, it turns out that your risk of breast cancer increases slightly with every amount of alcohol you drink.

This is the last act on this Earth of a little girl called Heidi, five years old, before she died of cancer to the spine.

I moved to Boston 10 years ago from Chicago, with an interest in cancer and in chemistry.

You might know that chemistry is the science of making molecules or, to my taste, new drugs for cancer.

And we're able, finally, to answer the question that's been so pressing for so many years: Why do I have cancer?

You might know that, so far, in just the dawn of this revolution, we know that there are perhaps 40,000 unique mutations affecting more than 10,000 genes, and that there are 500 of these genes that are bona-fide drivers, causes of cancer.

And this inadequacy of cancer medicine really hit home when my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

This is old information we've known since about the 80s, yet there's no medicine I can prescribe to a patient with this or any of the numerous solid tumors caused by these three ... Horsemen of the Apocalypse that is cancer.

And so, please consider this a work in progress, but I'd like to tell you today a story about a very rare cancer called midline carcinoma, about the undruggable protein target that causes this cancer, called BRD4, and about a molecule developed at my lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, called JQ1, which we affectionately named for Jun Qi, the chemist that made this molecule.

You might ask: with all the things cancer's trying to do to kill our patient, how does it remember it's cancer?

It remembers that it's cancer.

And the reason is that cancer, like every cell in the body, places little molecular bookmarks, little Post-it notes, that remind the cell, "I'm cancer; I should keep growing."

So we developed an idea, a rationale, that perhaps if we made a molecule that prevented the Post-it note from sticking by entering into the little pocket at the base of this spinning protein, then maybe we could convince cancer cells, certainly those addicted to this BRD4 protein, that they're not cancer.

Now, this is a very rare cancer, this BRD4-addicted cancer.

In effect, the cancer cell was forgetting it was cancer and becoming a normal cell.

The only problem was there's no mouse model of this rare cancer.

And so at the time we were doing this research, I was caring for a 29-year-old firefighter from Connecticut who was very much at the end of life with this incurable cancer.

This BRD4-addicted cancer was growing throughout his left lung.

At the Lurie Family Center for Animal Imaging, our colleague, Andrew Kung, grew this cancer successfully in mice without ever touching plastic.

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