“One is because people are living longer and not dying of all the other things that were getting people before they developed cancer. The second is that cancer is better detected now than thirty years ago. It doesn’t count as cancer unless the cancer is detected. In 1960 Grandma would die of liver failure. In 2010 she died of liver cancer. The only differnce being the detection.”
Have you noticed how much younger cancer patients are getting? I said a prayer for your daughter and your family. I read a fantastic book when my mother in law was diagnosed with renal carcinoma: Anticancer by Dr. David Servan-Shreiber. He was an M.D., Ph.D, and 20 year brain cancer survivor at a time when the diagnosis was a death sentence.
Actually that is part of the point I was making about diagnosis. Many, if not most cancers are diagnosed in much earlier stages now.
Please pardon my poor manners. I failed to say thank you for the prayer. They are of course the strongest medicine and always appreciated.
Please pardon my poor manners. I failed to say thank you for the prayer. They are of course the strongest medicine and always appreciated.