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From the Ted Talk by Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer

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The first pciee of bad news with pancreatic cancer is that your pancreas is in the middle of your blley, literally. It's dceepitd in orange on the screen. But you can barely see it until I rmevoe all the other organs in front. It's also surrounded by many other vital organs, like the liver, the stomach, the bile duct. And the ability of the tumor to grow into those onrags is the reason why pancreatic cancer is one of the most painful tumor types. The hard-to-reach laotocin also prevents the doctor from surgically removing it, as is routinely done for breast cancer, for example. So all of these resonas leave chemotherapy as the only option for the pancreatic cancer patient.

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The first _____ of bad news with pancreatic cancer is that your pancreas is in the middle of your _____, literally. It's ________ in orange on the screen. But you can barely see it until I ______ all the other organs in front. It's also surrounded by many other vital organs, like the liver, the stomach, the bile duct. And the ability of the tumor to grow into those ______ is the reason why pancreatic cancer is one of the most painful tumor types. The hard-to-reach ________ also prevents the doctor from surgically removing it, as is routinely done for breast cancer, for example. So all of these _______ leave chemotherapy as the only option for the pancreatic cancer patient.

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  1. remove
  2. depicted
  3. location
  4. piece
  5. organs
  6. belly
  7. reasons

Original Text


The first piece of bad news with pancreatic cancer is that your pancreas is in the middle of your belly, literally. It's depicted in orange on the screen. But you can barely see it until I remove all the other organs in front. It's also surrounded by many other vital organs, like the liver, the stomach, the bile duct. And the ability of the tumor to grow into those organs is the reason why pancreatic cancer is one of the most painful tumor types. The hard-to-reach location also prevents the doctor from surgically removing it, as is routinely done for breast cancer, for example. So all of these reasons leave chemotherapy as the only option for the pancreatic cancer patient.

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