A quote shared by a friend of mine on Facebook...

[Moostache]

56. Sorry, but "cancer" is not a single disease.

"Cancer" is an uncontrolled cellular division that afflicts every kind of cell in the body and can and does metastasize into other cells and systems. You can no more "cure" cancer than you can drink the oceans. What we can do is develop more and better targeted treatments that increase survival rates and allow people to survive long term battles with cancer.

I have survived cancer once (so far), but I was extremely lucky in the circumstances of my diagnosis and my further luck in having an encapsulated tumor that was able to be surgically removed completely. My mother has been fighting cancer for the last 11 years. Her mother died of cancer before reaching 50 years old. The same cancer that claimed my grandmother's life in less than 3 years has been held at bay and spared my mother by a factor of 4 in one generation...that's real progress and makes a HUGE difference.

My grandmother passed when I was just 18 months old...I never knew her. My children have all gotten to know my mother and learn from her and love her for a minimum of 6 years and there is no price tag on that. The medical industry, the researchers and the doctors and nurses are NOT the same as the greedy ass corporate conglomerates or private equity firms that chase profits at all costs, human or otherwise.