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Nature's affliction. Mankind's challenge.

The work of Dr Janine Erler and Dr Kattesh Katti, among others.

My mother and father. My love for them. My fear for my children long after I have gone should cancer genetics play a cruel role in their lives.

I look forward to this special on Cancer.I've lost two of my aunts to ovarian cancer (they were both sisters), as well as a friend a few years ago. Faster detection means fighting cancer earlier, and therefore increasing life expectancy - so is there going to be a regular check up for cancer in both men and women? The recent proposals for an annual health check are a good idea - at least that is a start. Celebrities who have fought cancer successfully have raised hope for others (eg. Kylie) and increase awareness. Perhaps Newsnight could bring Kylie on?

My reaction is this:

Is this what passes for journalism at the 91Èȱ¬ these days?

Wife has it, it's tiresome, but we're still fighting!

28 year old wife gets it whilst pregnant - still there - refused nhs treatment - go private - treatment works - fight nhs - win - still alive - still fighting - phew! Thanks NHS!!!

Part of life. By the age of 21 I had had two forms of cancer and had endured chemo, radiotherapy and surgery. I have survived and have a normal life but cancer is always going to be part of that life - there's no escape. All I can do is embrace it and take the positive influences it has had on my life.

I fear that its my future due to my genetic heritage

Remember "Cancer" is a word, not a Sentence

Scared. Two of my closest friends died of cancer by the age of 32 - uterine and cervical. Scared and sad.

I'm not ill, I've got a condition which is being treated.

So far, cancer and I have been passing acquaintances; we haven't kept in touch, but who knows?

Painful cruel killer that takes loved ones before their time.

The word renders me physically cold with fear. Family and friends have been, and are, affected by the disease. It has caused heartache and pain both emotionally and physically...I wish a cure could be found and soon.

I have Moonwalked in the past, make monthly donations and am racing for life this June..... if it could be guaranteed a fund raising tax would speed up research I'd willingly pay a percentage of my salary too.

1 in 3 people develop cancer during their lives.

It's a negative and unhelpful word - we should try to find something more precise, more neutral, without the unnecessarily scary connotations.

I have prostate cancer and having a prostatectomy on 20th April 2009. March 2009 was Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence.

When I was 20 I insisted on a smear which I had trouble getting, it turned out I had CIN3 if I had waited until I should have 25 years old for your first smear I would have had Cancer, I am so blessed, this needs to be addressed.

Proof of the Gaia hypothesis - MAN damages, GAIA punishes.

Having had stomach cancer at the same time as my best friend did, and I lived whilst he died, I get quite queasy.

Study success rates overseas, and learn from the best of them - cancer care in this country needs improving, and with no postcode lotteries.

No longer an automatic death sentence, but better targeted screening, fair informed treatment and public education still needed.

Join a distributed computing project such as www.worldcommunitygrid.org and FIGHT BACK against this disease (and others) - do it now.

Cancer is not fair -but it's there.
Lets all fight it .

First of all fear of the speed that decline might take but also wonder for the resilience of those affected and who then recover

Being told that your daughter, aged 12, has a malignant melanoma: the worst feeling in the world.

A sister without breasts
A friend without a womb
A neighbour who lacks colon
And a puppy too
A granny’s early death
A father’s lungs that bled
A loss of ones own bladder
This is what cancer can mean to you

Alison OReilly

Early diagnosis and prevention through healthy lifestyles could do more to reduce cancer deaths than curative medicine alone.

Fear. Cancer cruelly robbed me of my beloved life partner, part of me died with him.

My dad, brave and scared

Like the "bomb" the power of the "C" word has receded since the 60's because of the scientific advances have been amazing and promise much. Nevertheless give any thought to your question and it is still very frightening to think that our own body may be attacking itself and cutting short a life still to be lived. Knowledge from effective and efficient screening is critical to beating this disease.

I am concerned with cancer's proliferation. It appears to be increasing in both frequency and number.

Cancer is like being Gay was until recently - we all know it exists but are reluctant to discuss it...

Cancer is a natural part of life and death, an inevitable random occurance due to the fragile and complex nature of our genetic foundations.

It's painful, distressing, and sadly enhanced by our artificial chemical-laden lifestyles, but everything that lives must die, and hopefully there's something good waiting for us on the other side...

Scary but often curable.

Shock and prayer when my friend told me the results from tests

Being dianosed with lymphatic cancer while in South America was chilling, especially as I didn't fully understand what I was being told and was ignorant on the subject - the treatment was grim, but 10 years on I'm in healthy remission, hopefully.

Survivor, life changing, a battle with other people's fear of the word.

I fear the word as I lost my mother and aunt to it, I fear for my children and grand children, I pray it has stopped the genes therefor my family,s sake.

Sorry about the "one sentence" request.

Forty years ago at the age of nine when at primary school we had a debate on journeying to the moon - I was on the For side - I ventured that we may find a cure for cancer. Seeing the word now reminds me of my naivity and young carefree hope. I still have the hope but much of it has been overtaken with the acceptance that cancer plays a part in all our lives. Whether through direct experience or hearing of others pain, death, fight or victory.

My reaction is "What age are you?" right then you need to claim DLA or AA."

I work in welfare rights alongside a project that helps people with cancer claim the benefits they are due. After that I can deal with the grief as 2 of my workmates have died of cancer another is living with it and friends and family have also died of cancer. I meet at least 20 new cancer affected families every week so its a daily thing for me

re cancer

curable in many cases, manageable in most. still fatal in some

Please EVERYONE take a look at Canceractive: www.canceractive.com ....introducing integrated cancer therapies and much good sense - using the best of the best - which some experts, including many doctors, believe can increase your personal odds of cancer survival by up to 60 per cent...NEWSNIGHT included!

Since diagnosis in 1995, my constant companion and recurrent, albeit unwelcome, visitor.

I have survived

A quite common serious condition, with a better prognosis than often feared - especially if caught early and treated before it spreads - and not necessarily the worst illness you can get.

Death sentence, life changing, physical pain and emotional anguish.

I've had breast cancer-once I knew what I was up against I knew I could manage-the fear was the waiting for the results. I also had excellent care, a first class consultant at the top of his field-different to other friends not living in the southeast.

Took my best friend, my sister and is threatening other friends. Bravery alone is not enough. Very early diagnosis helps.

When I hear the word Cancer, Fear grips me. My aunt died from it .

I had a cervical smear and they found abnormal cells. I have just done a colcoscopy and awaiting results. I am praying that its not cancer cells.

a deadly illness with little chances of survival

Terrifying and life threatening, yet seems to be a word which covers a wide range of illnesses from curable to terminal.

I am having to wait over a month for an X-Ray for an internal injury at Charring Cross hospital. No wonder so many cancer cases slip through the net until it is too late.

Prof. Agamemnon Epenetos's wish to come with solutions for the mankind

A critical recurrent illness, not necessarily fatal.

In UK it seems to be the plan to wait until someone has definitely got cancer and is sufferring before reacting to it. In France, cancer is routinely checked for and the slightest chance of occurrence is dealt with immediately with maximum effort. Costs less to be proactive, than to treat for rest of life

Killed my wife.

Destroyer of families

Don't mention it.

There but for the grace of God go I.

Disorganized cell growth ... but why? - poisoning and use of radiation will come to seem no more scientific than bloodletting once we can understand the body's auto-destructive tendencies.

I have had prostate cancer and was treated with BrackyTherapy 15months ago, and am now pronounced healthy again. However, I have two friends who have been recently dianosed with terminal cancer, lung, asophogus, heart, etc. My initial thoughts on this dreadful disease are of premature death, pain, loss of friends, bereaved children wives, and grandchildren, and no time to enjoy well-earned retirement in both cases. The sooner a cure is found for this, the better.
Look forward to seeing the programme.

A nasty way out of life, allegedly created by a loving God, from which human wit, also God inspired, has removed good deal of the threat away. Discuss!

There are so many types, and so much funding for research, it's all very confusing for those not directly affected and frightening for those that are.

Pessimism and shame about lack of testing and insufficient early detection, the seeming postcode lottery, widespread ignorance and waste of productive lives that goes hand in hand with fear.

Optimism and pride in the knowledge of great work being done by workers in healthcare, research (if too little) and in the friends and relatives who have successfully fought breast and colon cancer.

Cancer diagnosed, thought death, great treatment and care, still here, after 11 years.

As many above, it is fear and anger over those who oppose stem cell and genetic work which, in my opinion, has the solution to this killer.
The cure for most illnesses is out there if only the "busy-bodies" would let people researching the cure get on with the job.

Cancer is a serious, life-threatening disease

Can be defeated, one day it will be just history like other past life threatening illnesses..

In a sentence - Cancer is something I have to brace myself to think about.

post code lottery

Will I or won’t I get it, because no one is checking me (Both my parents died from cancer).

everyone reading this will be affected in some way and will need strength and support to face the challenge

Cancer is not a word to be scared of, it is to be respected and fought.

Cancer is a foreign invader which has in fact been waiting all your life to pounce. It is essential that it is destroyed at the earliest opportunity. I admire but do not envy those who have been told that they have cancer. They are wonderful people who sometimes know that their lives will end in advance. The rest of us, at least for the moment, may never know when our light is going to be extinguished.

We are fighting against it and sure to succeed.

Challenge to certainty, challenge to belief, death of faith, the awakening of a real understanding of life and death.

Our body's way to get back to a healthy balance.

I think of friends who have suffered from but survived cancer - and others who have died.

The word 'cancer' continually reminds me of loved ones who passed on after suffering great pain and before their time despite the fact that decades ago the causes and natural remedies were known but are ignored by the huge industry built around the notion that effective cures are almost here.

Cancer is on the increase due to the fact people are living longer, as a new drug helps eradicate death from, lets say high blood pressure, so the likelyhood that there is an increased chance of developing cancer. This elemeny of the story is always forgotten!

An invader trying to destroy my body.

Apparently hard to avoid these days, so just a question of which one and when.

Cancer is a state of mind, and by that I do not mean it's caused by the mind, rather that it's more effective to approach it as a natural progression of illness, rather than something that has to be cut out, burnt out, injected or radiated out of existence.

The word cancer immediately brings death into the picture as its been in many cases, however a cure is at hand .

THE WORD CANCER BRINGS A PICTURE OF PAIN&SUFFERING AS I HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF FAMILY MEMBERS&FRIENDS GOING THROUGH THE ORDEAL

Despite both my parents dying, in their 50's, from cancer, one siter having it plus another overcoming it, cancer is BEATABLE.

absolutely terrified.

I expect it will be my turn sooner or later.

A word not a sentence and with the advances being made (with the help of Tenovus and other charities) many reasons for hope, rather than fear.

Somewhere between the initial shock, the chemo, and the radiation, I have discovered this is not the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

Cancer Drug Scam

Contrary to popular belief, Cancer patients denied expensive drugs on our NHS are not missing anything except an even chance of a few extra months in pain. Experts claim the said mega expensive wonder drugs show no real benefit, the cancer charities who make the miraculous claims for these drugs are funded by the drug companies themselves. The cancer charities wont campaign for a cut in the said prices and if you are rich enough to afford them you are probably wasting your money on false hope. Despite the claims, Stutent didn't save Tony Wilson even though his wealthy mates funded it for him.

source Tonight with TM


I could add that the rich who buy these drugs are volunteering to pay virtual Private Inheritance Tax. The stock market parasites are already offering insurance policies to pay for the said mega expensive alleged wonder drugs, I wonder how many people will be foolish enough to take their insurance offer up.

Used to be hopeless, now it's hopeful.

My wife died of pancretic cancer within 8 weeks, why didn't the GP take seriously her complaints of abdominal pain over 5 years?

Destruction if allowed to win

much research, new drugs available, clinically effective, not cost effective. Thats why our survival rates are very low. Our treatments in this country are shocking. Its all about money.

Unfortunately, the familiarity of the word scares me; I have had scares and relapses.

Cancer took my mother and my brother, so in a word, terrified........