Thyroid Cancer In The Fault In Our Stars By John Green

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In John Green’s young adult romance book, The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster has thyroid cancer and got it when she was 13 and it has spread to her lungs. She carries an oxygen tank with her all the time. She has depression and goes to a Support Group every Wednesday with other depressed kids. She meets Augustus Waters who had osteosarcoma because he is a cancer survivor and is friends with Isaac who had eye surgery and his girlfriend broke with him. Hazel falls in love with Augustus. Hazel feels like a Grenade waiting to explode (die). Augustus had cigarettes between his lips but he didn't light them to give the power to kill him, since cigarettes give you lung cancer and make you die. “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing