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You are an entire universe and we're zooming in 🔬 Diseased cells 🧬 Dying stars. Same language. Six Paths of the Sun ☀️

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Micron Universe # 036.
Fatty terrain. Crystal formations, tissue mid-transformation.
Imago Path ☀️ Becoming something dangerous looks nothing like what you'd expect. #SPOTS #MicronUniverse #BreastCalcifications #Crystals #BreastCancerAwareness

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The mammogram flagged them first.
Crystalline formations in fatty tissue, geometric, frightening.
Pleomorphic calcifications has a 25–40% malignancy risk.
The biopsy needle goes in before you fully understand what you're looking at.

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In the Micron Universe H&E, they look almost beautiful. Diamond formations in a pale landscape.
DCIS calcifications grow faster and spread further than benign ones.
The geometry tells you the difference, if you know how to read it.

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@AMCTheatres The woman of tomorrow!! #Supergirl

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Micron Universe # 035.
The papule rendered as terrain. The pull back reveals the system.
Axis Path ☀️ #SPOTS #MicronUniverse #CancerAwareness #BCC #SkinCancer

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The sun wrote this into your skin over decades.
1 in 5 Americans get this, the most diagnosed malignancy in the country.
It starts as one small papule, firm, raised, easy to miss.

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Caught early, Mohs surgery removes it clean with a high cure rate and low recurrence.
Left untreated, it grows into muscle, wraps around nerves and becomes a wound that won't stop bleeding. The architecture of neglect is its own pathology.

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@Exalted_Speed This is gonna be a blast!

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It's not a pandemic. . Yet.
Micron Universe # 034.
Requiem Path ☀️
#SPOTS #MicronUniverse #Hantavirus #ScienceArt

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@realannapaulina @realannapaulina What in the "Butt"?!

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5 year survival rate in pancreatic cancer is 12%.
The violet star is still burning.
We are still looking.
Star Specimen # 025D
Planet Stroma
#SPOTS #PancreaticCancer #StarSpecimen
#Histology #SpaceExploration

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The treatments for pancreatic cancer
are not winning.
Gemcitabine. FOLFIRINOX. Abraxane.
They slow the stroma world, but they do not end it.

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Patrick Swayze fought for approximately 18 months.
The world he carried was already
too established to dismantle.
He was 57, he deserved more time.

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Less than 20% of patients
qualify for surgical resection.
The Whipple procedure, the only potential cure. Most are already too late by the time they arrive, the stroma hid too well for too long.
Star Specimen # 025C
Planet Stroma
#SPOTS #PancreaticCancer
#Histology #Exoplanet

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Inside the stroma itself.
The dark malignant inclusions
buried in every direction.
This is what the probe found
when it pushed into the terrain.

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H&E, P53, Chromogranin, Synaptophysin.
Some of the stains reading the same world in different ways.
Each one a different truth
about what is hidden here.

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Patrick Swayze was diagnosed January 2008 with Stage IV.
The stroma had been building
for years before anyone knew.
Approximately 18months from diagnosis to death.
He was 57.
Star Specimen # 025B
Planet Stroma
#SPOTS #PancreaticCancer #StarSpecimens
#Histology #SpaceExploration

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The probe is on the surface, the terrain is wrong. Too organized, too deliberate.
This desert was built not formed.
Desmoplastic stroma, the cancer's first line of defense.

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Dense fibrous connective tissue
surrounds the tumor completely.
It physically blocks chemotherapy
from reaching its target.
You treat the world, the cancer hides inside the walls.