Human Anatomy: Cancer

How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years? "AI has surpassed humans in speech and object recognition, even outperforming radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer."

Discusses the gene editing technique CRISPR; its potential to eliminate disease, to improve the stability of our food supply, and to manage the conservation efforts for threatened animals; and the unknown future consequences of using this technology.

Tells the stories of discovery and the inventions of nine young students, including Jack Andraka and his improved cancer test.

The cells of one human body have faced years of struggle against its poor health and despairing heart, but now things are looking up for the Red Blood Cells and White Blood Cells as the body seems to be taking control of its health. Unfortunately, now a new threat arises when one cell in a hidden corner of the lungs begins uncontrollably copying itself, and Cancer attacks.

"Red Blood Cell and White Blood Cell somehow keep running into each other--could their bond have been fated since childhood? Either way, the body they live and work in can't seem to catch a break. From food poisoning to heat exhaustion to the threat of cancer, life in the body is as busy as it is dangerous, but the hard-working cells that keep it (and you) running are up to the task!"

Provides consumer health information for teens about cancer risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, coping, and survivorship along with online support and mobile apps related to cancer. Includes index and resource information.

A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer.

Advice from over one hundred teens and experts on how to deal with a parent having cancer.

30-Second Genetics charts the most extraordinary discoveries, from the fundamentals of cell biology to the almost unbelievable advances in DNA sequencing and stem cell technology.

Provides basic consumer health information for teens about risk factors, consequences, and prevention of various types of abuse and violence. and other smoking cessation resources.

Provides basic consumer health information about skin health for teens, including facts about its origins, stages, types, transmission, risk factors, prevention, and co-occurring infections, along with tips for protecting the skin, updated statistics, and reports on current research initiatives.

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.

Looks at the history of scientific and medical discoveries of chronic myeloid leukemia.

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.;