All 15 Uses
malignant
in
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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- Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer.†
Chpt 1.3
- Gey and his wife, Margaret, had spent the last three decades working to grow malignant cells outside the body, hoping to use them to find cancer's cause and cure.
Chpt 1.3 *malignant = growing in a harmful, uncontrolled manner
- On February 5, 1951, after Jones got Henrietta's biopsy report back from the lab, he called and told her it was malignant.†
Chpt 1.3
- They bombarded them with drugs, hoping to find one that would kill malignant cells without destroying normal ones.†
Chpt 1.7
- They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta's.†
Chpt 1.7
- When it came to growing viruses—as with many other things—the fact that HeLa was malignant just made it more useful.†
Chpt 2.13
- And by freezing cells at various points, they believed they could see the actual moment when a normal cell growing in culture became malignant, a phenomenon they called spontaneous transformation.†
Chpt 2.13
- He told them he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else's malignant cells.†
Chpt 2.17
- This phenomenon was exciting for researchers trying to understand the mechanisms of cancer, because it suggested that they might be able to study the moment a normal cell becomes malignant.†
Chpt 2.18
- The other unusual thing scientists had noticed about cells growing in culture was that once they transformed and became cancerous, they all behaved alike—dividing identically and producing exactly the same proteins and enzymes, even though they'd all produced different ones before becoming malignant.†
Chpt 2.18
- Researchers were using that growing library of cells to make historic discoveries: that cigarettes caused lung cancer; how X-rays and certain chemicals transformed normal cells into malignant ones; why normal cells stopped growing and cancer cells didn't.†
Chpt 2.18
- The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta's cells by saying, "its atypical histology may correlate with the unusually malignant behavior of the carcinoma," and something about the "correlate of the tumor's singularity."†
Chpt 3.23
- It turned out that at the age of thirty-one, Moore had hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells until it bulged like an overfilled inner tube.†
Chpt 3.25
- It was an epiphany: scientists had been trying for decades to grow immortal cell lines using normal cells instead of malignant ones, but it had never worked.†
Chpt 3.27
- The idea that God chose Henrietta as an angel who would be reborn as immortal cells made a lot more sense to them than the explanation Deborah had read years earlier in Victor McKusick's genetics book, with its clinical talk of HeLa's "atypical histology" and "unusually malignant behavior."†
Chpt 3.36
Definitions:
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(1)
(malignant) harmful or evil
in medicine: harmful growth as with a cancerous tumor - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)