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Originally Posted by graciegirl

Thank you.

Why are we still dealing with this disease? And with war? And with inhumanity?

I don't know. It is like the book of Job.

Cancer is not one disease but hundreds really. My friend now has breast cancer in her lungs. Which is different than a number of forms of lung cancer. Some cancers are curable, or at least permanently remissionable, like some forms of lymphoma and some forms of leukemia, and some are almost always deadly.

Out of 13 women in my family; cousins, aunts, sister and daughter, myself, who have had breast cancer, we have lost one. And it is NOT the familial form, not detectably genetically linked, (probably not a THIS time genetically linked, but I suspect it is) and their diets were full of fruits and vegetables and they were active and none smoked, one drank a lot of diet pop.. most of them drank wine and beer....and you can go on and on.

My thought is that it is triggered by genetics, the predisposition is I think, and in some cases aging cells, hormones, environmental factors, poor diet maybe, and I strongly suspect a virus in some cases, but that is my theory, worth not even two cents. It is always wise to eat smart and to exercise and to keep yourself healthy, but cancer still strikes the healthy.

Our means of fighting it are awful, in many cases we have to pour chemical poisons into out bodies that nearly kill us and do kill healthy cells along with the malignant ones.

But that is all we have right now but I believe with my whole heart that it is not the agenda of the medical community to get together and say, we aren't going to find a cure for cancer. That is silly. Those doctors are dying of it too and so are their wives and children.

Help me off of this soap box and forgive me for this rant.

But I am gonna watch this TV show tomorrow night about Suzanne Somers who I feel is completely off base.

People like Suzanne Somers do a great disservice to many folks who have or will contract cancer. Anyone who finds a cure for a cancer,would become extreemely wealthy overnight. On this subject as on many others, the conspiracy theorists are and will always be with us.