Amy Hill

As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't have any big life-threatening illnesses, no tumors, no kidney malfunctions... I came from a very poor family. I was chubby as a kid.

American Comedian

Amy Tan

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

American Novelist

Noreena Hertz

Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.

English Author

Sheila Hancock

Even for those who do survive, tumours can affect the functions of the brain and therefore affect a person's personality, preventing many people from working, driving and otherwise leading a normal life.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because I was so young, I didn't completely understand the concept of death.

Armenian Athlete

Lara Jean Chorostecki

I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.

Canadian Actress

Terry Pratchett

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Simone Giertz

I don't have cancer, I just have a tumour.

Swedish Inventor

Virginia Foxx

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

American Politician

James Nesbitt

Irish Actor

Understand that 'tumour' can refer to both harmful (cancerous) and non-harmful growths in the body.

Harm Potential

'Tumour' may evoke fear or concern, as it is often associated with serious medical conditions.

Emotional Weight

'Benign' means the tumour is not cancerous, while 'malignant' indicates a cancerous and more dangerous tumour.

Benign vs Malignant

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 prevents blood vessels from feeding cancers. And this turns out to be one of our most important defense mechanisms against cancer. In fact, if you actually block angiogenesis and prevent blood vessels from ever reaching cancer cells, tumors simply can't grow up. But once angiogenesis occurs,

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 but before long, this technology could change your life, or maybe even save it. Imagine if your doctor could move things around in your body without surgery and without scalpels Say, delivering a capsule of medicine to a specific spot, breaking up kidney stones, maybe even removing tumors,

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 to reach the target and adjust the intensity within each beam as necessary. This helps spare critical structures within the brain. But what exactly does this ingenious approach do to the tumors in question? When several beams of radiation intersect to strike a mass of cancerous cells,

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 They can also be made to behave in very specific ways with the help of biological circuits. These program different behaviors depending on the presence, absence, or combination of certain factors. For example, tumors have low oxygen and pH levels and over-produce specific molecules.

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 and that had failed and their tumors had grown back. We divided the patients into two groups. The first group received second-line chemotherapy, which is expected to double the life expectancy, versus no treatment at all. And then the second group

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 In addition, the lymphatic vessels empty into the blood circulation, allowing the malignant cells to undergo hematogenous spread. Once at a new site, the cells once again undergo proliferation, and form small tumors known as micrometastases.

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 to enter from the body's bloodstream into the brain. Despite this protection, tumors and other complications can lead to life-threatening problems and diseases in the brain, such as dementia. Thankfully, scientists have found ways

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 cancers and this turns out to be one of our most important defense mechanisms against cancer in fact if you actually block angiogenesis and prevent blood vessels from ever reaching cancer cells tumors simply can't grow up but once

 community this is the advance that happened and the images were black and white where the nuclei popped out like very bright needles in a dark haystack and this made the tumors jump out and