World Cancer Day
Put your hand in mine and reach out for another and another and so on until all of us who have been touched by cancer make a line through the streets and across the streams and up the mountains and back down again.
Our line should travel through city after city, across state lines, and country to country.
Maybe then, all the great minds working on ending this disease will renew their vow to stop cancer in our lifetime.
It’s done far too much damage to too many lives.
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February 4, 2014 @ 8:12 pm
The word needs an “s” (cancers). It is the many variations that make finding a cure so great a challenge.
I hope I live to see the day when a single shot protects against all forms.
February 4, 2014 @ 6:49 pm
I know that lots of smart people are working on a variety of things to try to break the code to cancer. I sometimes wonder if researchers continue to do what they’ve always done and are expecting a different result. Maybe some out of the box thinking and trying might be a way to go.
Meanwhile the diagnoses continue and will for the foreseeable future. Treatments are mostly the same with some tweaks but nothing that really stands out. The cancer line gets longer, the suffering continues and the damage to families and friends is unending.
Hate to be a pessimist. I’ve been in the fight since 2001. I’ve been blessed. I am still alive when so many of my friends aren’t. I remember the beginning…the initial diagnosis. Not much has changed, sadly. Need the garage guys to step it up and find something that really works definitively and not by chance.