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A Layman's Guide To Malignancies: Cancer And Cancer Research In Everyday Terms, Bailee Bartash Apr 2019

A Layman's Guide To Malignancies: Cancer And Cancer Research In Everyday Terms, Bailee Bartash

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In the 200,000 years that humans have existed in our current homo sapien sapien form, we built our civilizations based in part on our desire to understand the world around us. The difficult part about this is the fact that our world has grown so vast and so quickly (think Moore’s Law, the observation that the speed and capability of computers is projected to double each year with an increasing number of transistors that can fit into a microchip), especially within the past century, that many people have been left behind due to their capability to understand. This gap in …