I have lost so many friends to cancer this past year.
Dave Wilkerson actually did a column on it this year. Am I just imagining it, or is cancer news just pouring out of the woodwork? How can there be a sudden epidemic of it?
Here is the Wilkerson article he did just before he was killed this year. I’ve passed it around before, but it seems to have blessed people.
http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/newsletter/2011/greatness-of-our-god
I’m not sure there is an “epidemic”....but we ARE getting older.....and older you are, the more likely you will at some point face cancer...it’s life.
The “epidemic” of cancer is due to people living longer, nothing more.
There are relatively few cancers that afflict young people.
100 years ago the average life expectancy was about 45. Few people lived long enough to develop cancer.
That being said, prayers for all those suffering from this terrible disease and their families too.
I think it’s a question of people living longer and becoming more susceptible to cancer. The extension of our life expectancy has more to do with people surviving childbirth and childhood diseases and, of course, medical advances. So it makes sense that there’d be more cancers in later life.
With those medical advances, more people are finding cancers in their early stages while still treatable. Late last year a CT scan found a ‘mass’ on my husband’s kidney. Miraculously, tho cancer, it was stage 1; within 2 months he’d had the surgery, and doctor told him “see you in a year.” That would not have happened a few short years ago.
Eventually the day will come that most cancers can be found early and/or eradicated altogether, expanding even farther our life expectancy.