Just Stand Up To Cancer

Cancer.

The very word send shivers down my spine.

Did you know that 100 years ago, 1 in 33 people had cancer?
Today, it is more than 1 in 3.

What does this mean? It means that if there are 3 people in a room, the chances of 1 person in that room getting cancer in his or her lifetime is pretty high.

Did you know that every 45 seconds, someone in the world dies from cancer or its treatment?

Twenty years ago, 1 out of 25 women had breast cancer. Today, it is 1 out of 8.

Since 1955, prostate cancer has risen more than 600%.

In the last 20 years, the war on cancer has spent over one Trillion dollars. And lost.

My own brother-in-law died of liver cancer last year. When he was diagnosed, he was already at Stage 4 - the last stage, where hopes of surviving are almost zero.

Two years back, a friend of mine died from lung cancer. She initially had an operation which cut off part of her lungs. It did not help. The cancer spread to her neck, then to her brain. By the time she died, she already lost her eyesight due to the ravages of the dreaded disease.

It's scary. There is no cure. No one is immune.

But why? Why do people get cancer? Why do more and more people get cancer nowadays compared to 20 or 50 years ago? Something must be wrong somewhere. Some things must have changed.

I am going to get to the bottom of what causes cancer in my future posts, and how we can prevent it from occuring. If medical sciences have no answer to cancer, the least we could do is to try to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Meantime, let us all just stand up to cancer. Let us help those who are suffering from it.

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After the death of my brother-in-law and my friend, I have always been touched by the sufferings of cancer patients. I have since then made a commitment to at least help ease their financial burden by donating to MAKNA (National Cancer Council) on a monthly basis.

If you like to donate or join the Direct Debit Donor Program, please log on to MAKNA website for more details. Your donation will be very helpful to those in need. Furthermore, it's tax exempted. So let's help these cancer victims and may God bless you.