Cancer has been seen in a negative manner even in the ancient ages. People believed (and still do) that once cancer had taken root, there was no way to stop or cure it. They believed that more harm than good would come out of treatment and avoided it altogether. Only after a while did people start primitive methods of cancer treatment, such as bloodletting or the basics of surgery. Even so, patients were not expected to live past a year.
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It is almost as if even speaking about it is taboo nowadays, with what seems an explosion of cancer discoveries in people left to right. Cancer is a silent killer, taking the lives of people we once held dearly to our hearts. The survival of millions of people lies in the hands of doctors and medical research. Nevertheless, progress is being made with new tools being unveiled constantly.
The future of cancer treatment is extremely uncertain, as new discoveries reveal that cancer behaves in a manner as no other disease has: it may offer some resistance to treatment, sometimes none at all, or, in the worst case scenario, it may not accept treatment at all. At the rate we’re going at right now, cancer could be cured tomorrow, it could be cured in years, it may even never be cured. We must keep pushing on and researching, unveiling new ideas, new programs, and helping to prolong the lives of the people who must suffer through a natural stage of humanity and discovery: progression.
As you now know, cancer is an extremely rocky and emotional path taken by many people, and for others who want to understand and learn the ways of it. It’s a road where many believers can become skeptics, lose faith, and believe we are going nowhere with our research. But as time shows us our progression, who is to say we won’t discover the cure