That basal cell cancer by your eye isn’t a death sentence, so deal with it. If it grows into your eye, and you end up losing part or all of your eyesight, don’t worry, you’ll live. Oh, and that in situ melanoma you have on your back, don’t worry, it hasn’t even penetrated the first layer of your skin, so it isn’t life threatening at this stage. Go home and deal with it. If it gets into the skin, then we’ll treat it, but by then, it may well have metastasized. So sorry.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. More than 3.5 million skin cancers in over two million people are diagnosed annually.
Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.
Treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancers increased by nearly 77 percent between 1992 and 2006.
Over the past three decades, more people have had skin cancer than all other cancers combined.
Yep, all the millions who get skin cancers each year will just have to buck up and live with the possibility of serious complications, disfigurement and even the potential for death given the new definition of cancer.
“Health care rationing takes many insidious forms but perhaps the most immoral is for the government to wage a public relations campaign designed specifically to dissuade patients and doctors from seeking available cures for cancer. They scheme to rename cancer, not to cure it, but to deny it exists. These government rationers have calculated that rather than actually treat patients with cancer, it’s cheaper to simply keep them calm… right up to the very end.”