I read an article this morning that cancer rates have increased in the U.S greatly in the past few years. On Memorial Day weekend I lost my only living brother (three years younger than me) to stage four cancer. Very hard to take. Two weeks later I lost one of my closest HS friends to the same. Two weeks following that we lost a five year golfing buddy in our Wed/Fri group to cancer. Last evening I learned that my next door neighbor has stage four. I'm kind of really down after this Summer's loses. I have pressed my primary care to check me thoroughly and he did with two MRI's and a CT. Once it gets to stage four it is hard to do anything to stop it. Get regular checkups.
