Dec 16 2009
The War on Cancer and where we stand today
In the seventies, President Nixon declared an ambitious goal and called it the “War on Cancer. However, a few decades later, we have to admit that we fell short as cancer rates still haven’t gone done.
When I asked my parents about how many people they knew with cancer when they were still children, they told me, maybe one or two. I am now 37 years old and I have to conclude that the situation has changed dramatically.
On average, currently 12.5 % of all women in the USA will get breast cancer at some point in their lives. That number was evidently not as bad just a few decades ago.
What is the situation today? Very likely you know more than one person with cancer. Maybe even within your own family.
In March of 2009 my wife Ann was diagnosed with breast cancer. My mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer only a few months later. And after I encountered blood in my urine, a CT-Scan result came back with another cancer diagnosis for our family. A larger tumor was found in my left kidney.
I am about to have surgery during which my kidney will be removed entirely. It’s insane. Cancer is everywhere. It’s not that remote mysterious disease anymore that was likely to spare you.
The page has turned. Cancer is growing, even though billions of $$ where poured into science and research to find the magic bullet, after Nixon proudly declared to battle it and to declare victory in record time. And when I speak of President Nixon, I certainly don’t mean to point my finger at the USA – the situation is the same everywhere in the Western World.
Is it only me imagining that all? Is it simply coincidental that both, my wife and I got diagnosed with cancer, plus my mom and another 10 folks I know – all that in just one year?
You may object to my standpoint as many people in fact do. They argue with statistics and data which – at least according to them – indicate that cancer, and especially breast cancer incidents, have been consistently going down over the past few decades.
You don’t need a Ph. D. in Mathematics to read the numbers that were published in the recent years about cancer rates. The problem is: you can look at numbers in many different ways. It’s the way they are being presented to the public. So sometimes they can be perceived incorrectly.
There is no doubt that improvements were made over the years in the ‘War on Cancer’. However, I believe everybody would agree that we are far away from victory. There is still a lot more to do until the final battle is one.
I was diagnosed with Kidney Cancer and seven months later after my wife Ann was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in March of 2009. I created our Breast Cancer Homepage with the intention to share our story about breast cancer with you and to provide independent quality information about treatment options for breast cancer .
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