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Art and Science about Oncology

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“Imaging”, represented by two classical male and female statues, David and Aphrodite: “On the one hand, the body looks perfect on the outside; on the other hand, that same body is diseased on the inside.”

From: http://magazine.eacr.org/where-art-meets-science-the-art-of-besting-cancer-exhibition/

Where art meets science: ‘The Art of Besting Cancer’ exhibition | The Cancer Researcher

There is a quote attributed to Leonardo da Vinci: “Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses – especially lear

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A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer.

Watercolour by Richard Tennant Cooper.

1910-1912

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Ms. Lombardo’s wary expression after she has lit the fuse to blow cancer to smithereens.

After diagnosis, Ms. Lombardo began a blog that she called “grancer,” a neologism that rhymes with cancer but contains all the letters of her hopeful first name. Grace Lombardo was the inspiration for this time-bomb art work.

From: nytimes

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“The tree itself, with its trunk and branches, represents the cancer center and the oncology team. The branches support and provide protection to the leaves, which are the patients and survivors. The individual leaves are connected to each other and share the support of the branches and the trunk. Knowing that they are loved and not alone, the leaves have the strength to do the things they did not know they were capable of doing.”

Artwork created by patients with cancer and survivors at Intermountain Southwest Cancer Center of Cedar City (UT)

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Drug-releasing depots in mouse lungs

“ Confocal micrograph of whole mouse lungs loaded with drug carrying microparticles (red/pink). The microparticles were also loaded with a fluorescent tracking dye so that they could be visualised 1 week after administration. Current anti-cancer therapies have many toxic side effects so research into other ways of delivering drugs to specific areas of the body are being investigated in order to decrease these unwanted side effects. Here, microparticles were delivered to the lungs using a route similar to drugs administered by an inhaler “

From: wellcomecollection.org/

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Turning art to science: A focus on lung cancer

“ The fine art of representing complex science in illustrations and images can often be tasking to the most adept artists and designers. First there is the brainstorming process, then the pages and pages of sketches and templates, and then the small matter of aligning those thoughts and ideas with those of the editor.”

From: http://blogs.nature.com/

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A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man’s left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817.

“Since general anaesthesia was not available until the 1840s, and antiseptics were not broadly introduced until the 1860s, operations were extremely painful and had a poor prognosis.”

From: Shannonselin.com

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Susan Olivera painted Sobrevivi as she was starting to feel better after years of sickness.

The painting depicts a nude woman with scars on both breasts standing, as Olivera describes it, in a victory pose under a backwards moon. The colored fragments on the woman’s right side represent the chemotherapy sessions and surgeries that Olivera underwent.

From cancertodaymag.org

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“Annie Dennison had enjoyed both photography and creating mixed-media art before she was diagnosed with #breastcancer, but the diagnosis spurred her to pursue art more intensely, she says. #Chemotherapy left her too sick to go out and take pictures, so she looked for something that she could photograph at home. Then she got an idea: to take #Barbie dolls, pull out their hair to simulate chemotherapy’s well-known #sideeffect , and then dress, pose and photograph them.”

From cancertodaymag.org

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#cancerpatients #barbieslosingit #oncologyart #artandmedicine #cancer #tumorealseno #barbie #cancerfighter #oncology

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Post-mortem view of enlarged lymphoma glands. 

“The neck and armpit dissected, showing enlarged glands grouped in bunches of various sizes. The infection has travelled with the vessels under the clavicle to the armpit. Copied from drawings made by Sir Robert Carswell in Paris.”

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Cancer Cell Watercolor by Lyon Road Art - The Intersection of Art and Anatomy

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“In her series Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumour, Wangechi Mutu uses 19th century medical diagrams as a basis for invented portraiture. The original illustrations, symbolic of colonial power, suggest a wide range of cultural pre-conceptions: from the ‘superiority’ of European ‘knowledge’ to the classification of nature (and consequently race) into genealogical hierarchies. In Uterine Tumor, Mutu challenges these imposed values, using physical disease as a metaphor for social corruption.“ By Wangechi Mutu - Saatchi Gallery

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Cancer Diaries #1.

I’m back! Took an almost 6-month hiatus due to being diagnosed with cancer but I’m really grateful to be alive and still here. :)

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Leukemia cells - Watercolor by AmaranthusSanctus

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Historical medical journal article by Thomas Ashworth describing circulating tumor cells in 1869

“A case of Cancer in which cells similar to the Tumours were seen in the blood after death. (...) The fact of cells identical with those of the cancer itself beeing seen in the blood may trend to throw light upon the mode of origin of multiple tumours existing in the same person”