Cancer, Cure and Prevention

The biopsy report came back and Doctor Ann didn’t pull punches. ”You’ve got a 35% chance of getting through this. I’ll do everything I can to help.”
Doctor Ann kept her word. Two operations, lots of lymph glands in the first and a breast in the second, then heavy chemotherapy followed by aggressive radiation therapy. It worked. That was over 12 years ago and Li has been enjoying good health and grandchildren that she would otherwise never have seen.

Li was a picture of health before she got cancer. Her cancer was not the result of her life style. Fatalities due to breast cancer have been declining in the ”advanced” countries because of ever better treatment, not because of fewer occurrences. More and more women contract and die of breast cancer in the world.

There are many types of cancers. Some, like lung cancer, are obviously caused by life styles. Others are triggered by environmental factors. Some of these love healthy bodies and devour them quickly.

The best way to cure cancer is to prevent it from occurring. That’s a collective effort, not a personal one.

PS: Li was lucky in another respect. She was not living in the USA where, unlike most other countries, cancer is often a death doom to the victim’s economy.

“The government that cannot provide health care for its citizens is sick.”
Dartwill Aquila

(Tomorrow: Outcest the Opposite of Incest)