Reprinted with Permission from Jo
Eland, University of Iowa
Our Cast
Lenny Liver
This is the cancer dinosaur,
his name is Terrill Tyrannosaurus the Tyrant.
Captain Chemo - One of
our heroes!
Lenny Liver lives above
your belly button (naval) and on the right. Lenny is very busy all of the
time and does all sorts of stuff for us. He helps you use your food to
grow, breaks down chemicals (he is an amazing chemist), makes a chemical
to help you clot your blood when you cut yourself, stores vitamins and
even helps destroy bacteria (germs) in the blood. He is really impressive!
It's not common for
Terrill to attack Lenny as the first thing he attacks but when he does,
Terrill is called hepatoblastoma (another big word). Of all the different
body parts Terrill attacks, less than one or two out of every 100 attacks
are in the liver. If Terril does attack the liver surgery and Captain
Chemo are used to fight him!
Lenny also helps break
down Captain Chemo after he has done his job so your body can get rid of
what is left.
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