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We ve learned a lot about cancer in writing the four-part series that ends in this week’s Rappahannock News. We’ve learned to cope with our irrational fears, a fear shared by millions of Americans, and to look at cancer more realistically.
The disease is real. It’s the fear of cancer that’s the boogie man, the imaginary shadow lurking in a dark, corner at 2a.m.
Cancer is treatable. There’s no 100 per cent cure and maybe there never will be. Maybe the secret of why cells erupt and begin crazy, uncontrolled divisions is the same secret that could tell us why cells age and die, the secret to life itself. But even without that 100 per cent cure, the prognosis is improving. More and more patients are living past the five year mark, thanks to the break throughs in battle lines won inch by expensive inch through medical research.
We are engaged in all-out war with the disease and if cancer won’t run up the white flag of unconditional surrender, we want to at least force a truce with conditions favorable to mankind.
At the front of our armies in this notso-imaginary war is the American Cancer Society, the organization that recently donated $2 million to research on interferon, the most promising new avenue of cancer research.
That’s at the national level. At the local level, our chapter provides help to cancer patients and their families through individual volunteers who assist with transportation to hospitals
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