Imagine a loved one is at the hospital and as the doctors are out trying to figure out a diagnosis, you’re sitting in the room, wondering what could possibly be wrong. The doctors arrive with a clipboard in their hand and say three simple words; ‘You have cancer.’ Everything stops and the room goes dead silent as the words finally sink in because it doesn’t matter what kind or what stage it’s at, how long they have before treatment, or if it’s even treatable; your loved one is possibly living a shortened life. Their body’s cells have been mutated by a nasty disease and there’s nothing you can think of doing. It is the situation everyone fears, no matter how old they are, yet some of us will never understand just how painful it is until we experience it ourselves.
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Those 584,000 people don’t just die from cancer; the people around them lose a parent, a friend, a child, or a lover. Statistics show that about 41% of Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their life and about 21% of those will die. The percentage of people who live after being diagnosed is higher than it used to be, yet, there can still be a drastically lower chance of survival depending on the type and stage it is at. The possibility of living after being diagnosed is the light at the end of the tunnel for many people but survival can’t be guaranteed, making this disease more frightening and
Those 584,000 people don’t just die from cancer; the people around them lose a parent, a friend, a child, or a lover. Statistics show that about 41% of Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their life and about 21% of those will die. The percentage of people who live after being diagnosed is higher than it used to be, yet, there can still be a drastically lower chance of survival depending on the type and stage it is at. The possibility of living after being diagnosed is the light at the end of the tunnel for many people but survival can’t be guaranteed, making this disease more frightening and