Sentence examples for cancer writes from inspiring English sources

Here's the pitch: A child with brain cancer writes letters to God and thereby touches the heart of an embittered, hard-drinking postal carrier.

The Harvard findings and "other recent studies should reassure the public that weakly estrogenic organochlorine compounds such as PCBs, DDT, and DDE are not a cause of breast cancer," writes Stephen Safe, a toxicologist at Texas A&M University, College Station, in an editorial in the same issue of NEJM.

"Civilization did not cause cancer," writes oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee in his book, The Emperor of All Maladies, "but by extending human life spans, civilization unveiled it".

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, while dying of cancer, writes an open letter to King's County DA Kenneth Thompson, asking him to reinvestigate the cases of David McCallum and Willie Stuckey, two Brooklyn teens who Carter insists are innocent of a 1985 murder.

And Now This: Author Elizabeth Wurtzel on breast cancer, writing for Vice.

"My husband and I are 75 and 74 respectively, both of us recovering from cancer," wrote one reader, Lorraine Robertson.

In the past two years, Chic's Nile Rodgers has beaten prostate cancer, written his autobiography and collaborated with Daft Punk.

"It's all over the news that Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy to prevent getting cancer," wrote Rivers.

For 46 years Roger Ebert, who has died aged 70 after suffering from cancer, wrote on films for the Chicago Sun-Times, and did not want to stop.

Nick Ashford, who died aged 70 in New York of throat cancer, wrote songs with his wife Valerie Simpson that similarly defined an era – the late-60s and early-70s.

Her book, Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer written with her daughter, Annabel Clark, records how the treatment "set me free".