What we need is advocacy: people to stand up and demand funding for cancer research be restored, for more investment in mRNA vaccine technology for cancer treatment and regular cancer testing as part of routine preventive care.
I’m a volunteer. And like all Guinea pigs, er opportunists, I represent a part of science that doesn’t get anywhere near enough attention. And why does it cost so much!
I’m somehow, potentially, making a difference. It kind of makes the misery a tiny bit more palatable. A tiny bit.
The uncertainty is fast leaving us as one natural disaster follows on the heels of another. What can we even do? What can I, one person, do to make some mark in the world before I die?
I’ve learned things I didn’t expect, because, I don’t know, just basic ignorance, I guess, since in the US like 2 million people are diagnosed with a cancer each year.
First, the obvious. No two cancers are alike. None of them.