{"id":25643,"date":"2016-05-12T20:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-the-meaning-of-cancer-has-changed"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:55","slug":"how-the-meaning-of-cancer-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-the-meaning-of-cancer-has-changed","title":{"rendered":"How The Meaning Of Cancer Has Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the beginning of the movie<\/a> 50\/50<\/em>, Adam Lerner is diagnosed with neurofibrosarcoma, a cancer of the spine\u2019s nerve tissue. Adam sits in his doctor\u2019s office while the doctor rattles off the word several times, but Adam has no idea what it means, or if there\u2019s anything wrong with him at all. Eventually, his doctor uses the word \u201ccancer,\u201d and Adam\u2019s perspective goes blurry, the doctor\u2019s voice drowned out by a high-pitched ringing.<\/p>\n

Many people have had real experiences like this one. Cancer is still one of the scariest words you can hear in a diagnosis. And chances are, you know someone who has heard it\u2014almost 40 percent<\/a> of adults are diagnosed with some form of it during their lifetime. Every patient\u2019s story is different, and they don\u2019t all have a happy ending. But because of decades of research into how cancer works, patients diagnosed with cancer today have a much better chance of survival than ever before.<\/p>\n

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Nice read. At the beginning of the movie 50\/50, Adam Lerner is diagnosed with neurofibrosarcoma, a cancer of the spine\u2019s nerve tissue. Adam sits in his doctor\u2019s office while the doctor rattles off the word several times, but Adam has no idea what it means, or if there\u2019s anything wrong with him at all. Eventually, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67507,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions\/67507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}