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The original Re-Mission game was released in 2006 as a Microsoft Windows based third-person shooter based in the serious games genre. In Re-Mission, the player controls an RX5-E ("Roxxi") nanobot who is designed to be injected into the human body and fight particular types of cancer and related infections such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma and leukemia, at a cellular level.
The use of war and battle metaphors in medicine has been documented back to the 1600s. [4] Over the 20th century, politicians have "declared war" on cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and obesity. [4] Military metaphors are not an exclusively Western phenomenon. Battle terms are also used in traditional Chinese medicine.
In the game, the player controls a scientist who has created a cancer-attacking "cure"; when it is released in a gas form it begins to cause the extinction of all life by unexpectedly targeting all living cells, rather than just cancer cells. The player is given six days to create an antidote, after which point one of several endings may be ...
Exciting new technologies can help the U.S. government win the war that it declared 50 years ago—but the very same government may be hampering progress. America first declared war on cancer half ...
A “Jeopardy!” contestant revealed they are battling stage 4 cancer during Tuesday night’s game. Chris Burge, a high school teacher from Farmers Branch, Texas, shocked viewers with his cancer ...
That Dragon, Cancer is an art video game created by Ryan and Amy Green, Josh Larson, and a small team under the name Numinous Games. The game is an autobiography based on the Greens' experience of raising their son Joel, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at twelve months old. Though only given a short time to live, Joel survived for four ...
The family of a cancer survivor says her first-ever NFL game was spoiled when a Buffalo Bills fan "purposely" pushed the young girl because she was cheering for the opposing team.
With a child patient as the hero miniaturized to microscopic level adventuring inside the child's own body, the object is to destroy all cancer cells and to collect the seven shields against common side effects of chemotherapy. [2] [3] Each shield is guarded by a "monster"—an incarnation of one of those side effects. The game was designed so ...