“For as long as cancer treatment has existed, ‘cutting it out has been the best way to cure it.’” Those are the words of Washington Post reporter Kim Bellware. Bellware is quoting Luis Diaz, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Please read Bellware and Diaz’s words again, and contemplate the profound, life-enhancing meaning of them.
The simple, exciting truth is that pharmaceutical advances have us positioned to evade some of the most brutal aspects of a cancer diagnosis. Figure that news of contracting cancer is horrible and jarring as is, only for what follows to frequently make the diagnosis the best part of what’s an awful ordeal. It seems we’re on the verge of a much better medical present and future.
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