Did Marie Curie die from cancer?

Answer 1

Madame Curie made two trips to America to receive a gram of radium each time, first from President Warren Harding and eight years later from President Herbert Hoover.

In 1923 the French government gave her a pension of 40,000 francs a year in recognition of her lifetime of work in France.

She became ill and died from all her years of exposure to radium. Today doctors identify the disease as leukemia.

After Marie's death her daughter Irene and her husband Frederic Joliot received the Nobel prize for their work in atomic research. She followed in her mother's footsteps to also become a great scientist.

Many people have benefited from the discoveries made by Pierre and Marie Curie. The radiation which burned their skin as they worked with it, eventually came to be used to kill cancer cells in patients suffering from the disease.

Answer 2

Technically, she did not die from cancer, but from aplastic anemia. In layman's terms, her bone marrow failed to produce enough blood cells for her to live.

She most likely died from studying radiation, as this anemia is a typical result of radiation poisoning.

Answer 3

Marie curie contracted aplastic anemia:

Aplastic anemia is a disease in which the bone marrow, and the blood stem cells that reside there, are damaged. This causes a deficiency of all three blood cell types (pancytopenia): red blood cells (anemia), white blood cells (leukopenia), and platelets (thrombocytopenia). Aplastic refers to inability of the stem cells to generate the mature blood cells.

she also had lots of exposure to x-rays being a radiologist at the hospital that she worked at and she suffered from cataracts and chronic illnesses.

Answer 4

Because she had too much radiation. She lived on planet Mercury, where their is no ozone layer or atmosphere to protect humans from the harmful rays of the sun.