I've lost my father, brother-in-law and friends to cancer, and now my brother(see tag)is fighting his own battle, along with my nephew.
What I find interesting is a couple of decades ago when HIV/AIDS was all over the news, talk shows, etc. It was talked about like it WAS a plague that was sweeping the world and we needed to do anything and everything to stop it(including perhaps redirecting cancer research federal funding...while cancer rates were soaring, particularly among children).
Now your rarely hear about HIV/AIDS...so was it just a "fad" disease, or did someone(quietly)find a cure?
And don't show me "Gov." statistics that might say otherwise about cancer rates...seeing is believing, dealing with it makes it real...and Gov. lies and is corrupt...not unlike the original "plague" in this post.
HIV/AIDS became a political issue. Billions of dollars was poured into research and multiple drug combinations have turned what was a fatal disease into a chronic manageable condition. Yes, those affected live markedly shorter lives than there non infected peers, but it is not the rapid death sentence that it was in the 80’s and early 90’s.