NEWS
2011 - 03 - 14 Comics « The cell which wanted to become immortal”
Amandine Bernard from the Norlux Neuro-Oncology Laboratory has just created a comics which was presented at the Relais Pour la vie on March 12-13, 2011.
The comics deals with a story about a child who visits his grandfather in hospital cured for cancer. The kid offers him a book about cancer and cancer research. The story begins with a cell which is very ambitious and wants to become immortal and conquere the whole world. After thinking about how to reach this goal, the cell becomes immortal and therefore becomes cancer. “But this cancer seems to be very harmful, how can people be cured?” asks the boy to his grandfather. The grandfather explains his grandchild that many people are searching for treatments to cure cancer and the use of different techniques to study also cells biology. “Don’t worry” says the grandfather: I will recover from this cancer but research still goes on because all treatments for all cancers have not been discovered yet”.
The comic is written in a very easy and understandable manner: it can be read by children but also by adults. It will be soon translated in multiple languages (german, Luxembourgish, Portuguese).
Although it is about cancer, the story has a happy ending. If you want to read this comics, please contact aurelia.derischebourg@crp-sante.lu