Sentences with phrase «struggle against cancer»

He follows the struggle against cancer from ancient Greece to the present day, when longer life spans make cancer more common despite the true gains in our war on the illness.

However, I am not very hopeful about our struggle against cancer.

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The internationally renowned South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, whose music was an integral part of the soundtrack to the struggle against Apartheid, has passed away at the age of 78 following a battle against prostate cancer.

A sales executive struggles against alcoholism, a cancer victim against despair, a redneck against racism.

James White tells the turbulent story of a young man coping with grief in the wake of his father's death and the resurgence of his mother's cancer, and his struggle to go on against all odds.

Also, to quote a teacher who spent 30 + years teaching against all odds in struggling inner city schools: «To blame the teachers / schools for students struggling is like blaming the doctors because the patients have cancer.»

I didn't fully see, until the cancer, how we fight every day against the creeping negatives of the world, how we struggle daily against the slow lapping of cynicism.

When judges schedule a lethal injection for a terminally ill prisoner whose struggle against lymphatic cancer and extensive medical history has left him without any easily accessible veins, our law descends into a ghoulish inferno.