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Breast cancer among women is like the proverbial canary in a coal mine for all of us. It is a warning signal that something deeper is wrong with our society.
I'll say! With the dominance of all kinds of carcinogens in our food, air and water, sometimes I wonder how all of us aren't sick with the "C" disease.
It just goes to show, in a way, how incongruent class dictatorship with human nature and realities--since no matter how rich, powerful, well-connected a person is, they still aren't bullet proof and are subject to the same risks as everyone else.
Stronach isn't that old. As someone who's known too many people who have died of cancer, the thing that scares me about it is that it seems to be impervious to just about anything: anyone can get some kind of it; at any age, regardless of who you are or how well you take care of yourself--and once you get it the chances of survival or full recovery aren't that great, as the treatments are not that secure and sometimes are as painful as the disease itself.
Of course, there have been great improvements over the years, and many of the treatments are less invasive than before and the survival rate is higher than before. But it seems more and more people are at risk every year and more and more people do seem to get some form of it.
It seems to be developing into a sort of plague of its own—a disease that knows no boundaries, from which there is no fairly assured protection or cure--the one boogieman that’s actually real.
I hope her treatments go well. But the fact that someone as young and seemingly as healthy as her could get it is pretty unnerving.
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posted 23 June 2007 06:39 AM
