Why Cancer?

A note about Friday's post. Pattie and/or I often write about a wide variety of cancer related topics on this site. But it hasn't been lost on me that most of our regular readers are multiple myeloma patients or family members. I suppose that is understandable. I post about myeloma quite often, since I am myself a survivor. But Pattie is a cervical, uterine and ovarian cancer survivor. My father has prostate cancer. Her mother colon cancer. My mother died of lung cancer. Now back to my point. I find most readers are very specific in their interests. Myeloma, leukemia, liver cancer, whatever. So I risk losing some reader's interest by writing about such a broad array of cancer related topics. To this I say, tough! We should all be interested in cancer--how to prevent it, identify it, stop it! I believe trends are important. It doesn't take an accountant or physician to figure out the more common the cancer, the more funding is allocated toward its treatment. Who is going to speak for the "little guy or gal," Suffering from one of the less common, less glamorous cancers? Doesn't everyone have a responsibility to try to understand and support our fellow human beings who are forced to deal with cancer everyday? I believe there are far more similarities than differences here. The spouse of a woman diagnosed with lymphoma has a lot in common with the husband of a wife with breast cancer. I think of it as a large, not very exclusive club. Once you or a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, everything changes. More about those changes, often called the "new normal," tomorrow.
Feel good, keep smiling and please try and reach out to someone, anyone you know with cancer. We all need your love, prayers and support! Pat and Pattie