Cancer Has Invaded My Family! Is it Here To Stay?

All those years of research, all the money spent, all the times I heard them say cancer cure is near and yet it hasn't gone away.

In the 1960s when I was very, very young, my cousin lost her seven year old son to cancer. I had been in this country for only a few years and the news came from the poor and devastated country I had left behind. Through the years, I kept hearing how the cure for cancer was ever so near. I felt safe being in this country. The possibility of cancer reaching our family once again would probably never come. In fact, it wasn't until about two years ago that I realized how much cancer seemed to have spread instead.

My two brothers-in-law and a neighbor were diagnosed with cancer in the same month. The neighbor was gone within a few. That's when I became aware, once again, that there has really been no progress in the battle against it. Where has all the research money gone?  Is this the same country that has landed a man on the moon in the 1960s using a computer that was probably not as smart as the one I am now writing with that can't figure it out?

Cancer is still here. And why not. Why should this country of money-hungry bastards make it go away? We give anything to try to hang on to our loved ones as long as possible. Those of us having the means are willing to spend all we have. In the end, we watch them slip away from us as they get consumed by the cancer and its non-cure treatment.

It's all about money. But not the money an individual cancer patient has. It's all about the money that the Medical profession makes that is making sure cancer is here to stay.