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Cancer

By Cate Dzero

Cancer

Cancer

  • What is Cancer?
  • What Causes Cancer?
  • How to Treat Cancer?
  • How to Diagnose Cancer?
  • Treatment Breakthrough

What is Cancer?

  • Cells divide uncontrollably
  • Tumor spreads to other parts of the body
  • Cancer cells steal proteins and nutrients from other cells to grow

What is Cancer?

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What Causes Cancer?

What Causes Cancer?

  • Carcinogens
  • Smoking and ELF
  • Radiation
  • Sun
  • Asbestos, Soot, Coal

How to Diagnose Cancer?

  • Biopsy
  • MRI
  • Blood Test

How to Diagnose Cancer?

How to Treat Cancer?

  • Surgery
  • Chemotherapy
  • Radiation

How to Treat Cancer?

Treatment Breakthrough

Treatment Breakthrough

  • Immunotherapy
  • T-cells as police
  • Cancer cells hide from police by pretending to be normal cells
  • Immunotherapy blocks police/t-cells from failing to do their job
  • Checkpoint inhibitors

Bibliography

Bibliography

Grady, Denise. “Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer” The New York Times, 30 July 2016.

Yount, Lisa. “Cancer.” Kansas City, Montana: Lancent Books, 1998.

Pollack, Andrew. “Setting the Body’s Serial Killers Loose on Cancer” The New York Times, 1 August 2016.

Park, Alice. “FDA Approves First Gene Therapy Treatment for Cancer” Time Magazine, 30 August 2017.

Zimmer, Carl. “New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill” The New York Times, 3 July 2019.

Lyubetskaya, Anna. Personal Interview: 8 January 2020.

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