The War on Cancer and where we stand today
President Nixon declared the war on cancer in the seventies and foresaw victory waiting around the door. Unfortunately, this goal was never achieved. We know that a cure for cancer is yet to be found.
I am now 37 years old. When I go back in time, maybe just twenty years or so, I barely new anybody who had cancer. And if we go back even another few years, cancer rates were by far not as high as they are today.
The fact of the matter is, every 8th women in the USA will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. But just a few decades back ago we didn’t have such a higher number of incidents.
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 just had my left kidney removed by a laparoscopic nephrectomy. My wife had to undergo 3 surgeries in total until the margins came back clear. Cancer is everywhere and it seems to grow out of control.
Nixon promised money and he lived up to his promise. Billions of Dollars were spent on cancer research, but with the exception of a few – admittedly remarkable – strides, cancer still seems to grow uncontrollably. This is a phenomenon that applies to the whole Western World and is not only confined to the US, of course.
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?
But that’s just my opinion, and I know that a lot of people disagree with my standpoint. They argue with new data and studies which supposedly show a significant reduction in new breast cancer diagnoses and mortality rates.
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.
‘The War on Cancer’ is far away from being over soon, even though some significant improvements were achieved by research, science and modern medicine. Hopefully, it won’t take too long anymore until we have achieved President Nixon’s declared goal, of eradicating cancer entirely.
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 .
