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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
2) Medicine man
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Two biochemists fight the jungle and industry as they try to find a cure for cancer in the rain forest.
Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist, is racing against time in his bold research for a cure against cancer. Deep in the Amazon rain forest, Campbell is hot on the trail of an amazing discovery, but soon finds himself caught in the midst of an explosive adventure.
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author and ESPN Television personality Mike Greenberg, host of the new morning talk show Get Up, and his wife Stacy comes a heartwarming, silly tale about a dog and her human pal. And all the authors proceeds from this book are going to combat pediatric cancer! Phoebe is a dog with a pink tail. She lives with her familythe Man in the Box, the Lady who Feeds Her, the Baby, and her sister the Girl with Curly Hair. Phoebes...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Annie Parker finds out she has breast cancer, a devastating blow to a woman who's already lost her mother and sister to the same disease. Mary-Claire King is a geneticist researching the still unknown link between DNA and cancer in the wake of skeptical colleagues and funding challenges.
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Publisher
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The authors daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront of this effort...
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Publisher
Distributed by Workman Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
This work focuses on what is widely viewed as the 'poster child' of rational drug development in the cancer research world. The history of the founding of a genetic mutant chromosome in the indication of Chronic myeloid leukemia disease, and the subsequent development of "Gleevec," is the keynote of this astounding publication.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"On September 12, 2004, just two and a half days before Johnny Ramone's death, a group of musicians and friends staged a benefit concert in Los Angeles to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Ramones' first performance and raise money for cancer research. That unforgettable night - along with Johnny's subsequent memorial service - is captured in this combination concert film and Johnny Ramone tribute documentary featuring interviews with and performances...
10) Last redemption
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rick Cahill is finally living a settled, happy life. His fiancée, Leah Landingham, is pregnant with their first child and he is doing PI work that pays well and keeps him out of danger. Then a doctor gives him the bad news about the headaches he's been suffering-CTE, the pro football disease that leads to senility and early death-a secret he keeps from Leah and his best friend Moira MacFarlane. When Moira asks him to monitor her son, Luke-who's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able to withstand acute stress than adults’. In this inspiring memoir, Dr. Kurt Newman draws from his long experience as a pediatric surgeon working at one of our nation's top children's hospitals to make the case that children are more than miniature adults. Through the story of his own...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nuestra comprension del cancer esta pasando lentamente por una revolucion, lo que permite el desarrollo de tratamientos mas efectivos. Por primera vez en la historia, la tasa de mortalidad por cancer muestra una disminucion constante, pero la 'Guerra contra el cancer' apenas se ha ganado. Fung explica que es el cancer, como se manifiesta y por que es tan dificil de tratar. El identifica muchos errores de la comunidad medica en la investigacion del...
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English
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"The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Drawn from extensive research, on-the-ground reporting, and personal experience, this book explores the fascinating role dogs are playing in the search for a cure for cancer. Learn how veterinarians and oncologists are working together to discover new treatments -- cutting-edge therapies designed to help both dogs and people suffering from cancer. Heal introduces readers to the field of comparative oncology by describing several research projects...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Photographer Chris Jackson has been by the Royal family's side on domestic visits and overseas tours for the past fifteen years, resulting in an unparalleled photographic archive of the evolving British Royal family. Occupying a front-row seat to history, Jackson's assignments have taken him to the four corners of the Earth to document the extraordinary breadth and devotion of the Royals to causes such as cancer research, mental health, and HIV awareness...
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Language
English
Description
"While the amount of information regarding a breast cancer diagnosis is vaster than ever, online and off, what continues to be missing is the explanation behind the options. Most of the data online on medical sites is generic and often comes from the samesource. Then there are the patient sites as well as many social media outlets that provide peer to peer support and information. This is important for emotional support but still leaves out the full...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive history of the work being carried out by Michael Milken and the Milken Institute to accelerate medical breakthroughs and lead humanity into the 21st century of medicine, providing an inspirational and hopeful road map for the future of thefield"--
"Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright...
Series
NIH publication volume no. 10-1560
Publisher
National Cancer Institute, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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