| Cancer patients as a group typically have to suffer | | | | know of and believe the existing stories of cancer |
| through months if not years of ongoing treatment. In | | | | victims who were determined to fight cancer to the |
| far too many cases, after subjecting themselves to | | | | bitter end and won! |
| very unpleasant treatment protocols, they end up | | | | Luckily enough for that group, over the last seventy |
| having to resign themselves to the fact that it didn't | | | | years a treasure trove of good research has been |
| work. | | | | done on cancer. Coming out of that research and |
| That is a very depressing reality and a dire | | | | clinical trials are some really good data that gives real |
| predicament that a large number of cancer victims | | | | hope. Unfortunately, the problem is, getting effective |
| have to resign themselves to coping with. All that pain | | | | treatment protocols from the research lab into clinical |
| and suffering and still not cancer free. | | | | trials and ultimately to frontline physicians takes a very |
| What can they or should they do at that point when all | | | | long time. In some instances a decade or longer. Most |
| seems lost? In most cases it comes back to how | | | | cancer victims don't have the luxury of waiting years |
| accepting they have become to their likely fate. Many | | | | for these new treatments to make it to the frontlines in |
| spend their last months preparing for the inevitable by | | | | the war against cancer. They are now measuring time |
| saying goodbye to loved ones. Many others attempt | | | | in terms of months not years! |
| to complete their version of a "wish list." By trying to do | | | | What if solid clinical and peer reviewed trials had been |
| as many things that they have long wanted to do but | | | | done that showed a cancer treatment protocol that |
| just couldn't find the time or motivation to get done. | | | | was effective but for whatever reason had not made |
| Others go into a deep depression, withdraw into a shell | | | | it into the hands of the front line physicians. Should that |
| and never quite come to terms with their fate. Yet, | | | | be a reason for real hope and celebration? |
| others choose to be very active participants in their | | | | Well for those cancer victims who truly want to be an |
| outcome and are committed to try to somehow fight | | | | advocate for their own salvation, there are many |
| a war to the bitter end with their cancer. | | | | reasons to believe that seventy years of research |
| This last group who seem to fervently believe in hope | | | | has already given us the answers and solutions that |
| and self determination tend to be very aggressive at | | | | are needed to defeat the enemy known as cancer. |
| researching and trying to find information that will give | | | | The only question that remains is "Where and how do I |
| them a real chance at beating their cancer. They | | | | find it? |