Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.
Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.
Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
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