分类目录归档：cancer
This back here was my brain cancer.
Isn't it nice?
(Laughter)
The key phrase is "was,"
phew.
(Applause)
Having brain cancer was really, as you can imagine,
shocking news for me.
I knew nothing about c
Cancer affects all of us --
especially the ones that come back over and over again,
the highly invasive and drug-resistant ones,
the ones that defy medical treatment,
even when we throw our best drugs
"We're declaring war against cancer,
and we will win this war by 2015."
This is what the US Congress and the National Cancer Institute declared
just a few years ago, in 2003.
Now, I don't know about y
"You have cancer."
Sadly, about 40 percent of us will hear those three words within our lifetime,
and half will not survive.
This means that two out of five of your closest friends and relatives
will
Cancer.
Many of us have lost family, friends or loved ones
to this horrible disease.
I know there are some of you in the audience
who are cancer survivors,
or who are fighting cancer at this moment.
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Cancer.
It's a devastating disease that takes an enormous emotional toll.
Not only on the patient, but the patient's loved ones, as well.
It is a battle that the human race has been fighting for centu
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everyone's familiar with cancer but we
don't normally think of cancer as being
a contagious disease the Tasmanian devil
has shown us that not only can cancer be
a contagious disease but it can also
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Cancer is like a car crash.
Your body typically regulates
the speed at which your cells divide,
but sometimes, cancer cuts the brake lines,
and your cells divide too quickly,
accumulating mutations th
The onset of cancer usually begins as a solitary tumor
in a specific area of the body.
If the tumor is not removed,
cancer has the ability to spread to nearby organs,
as well as places far away from