Fight Against the Big C

Almost 3,650 years proceeding the earliest records of breast cancer by ancient Egyptians, we still succumb to formulate taboos and illusions just by this worldwide fear-inducing phenomenon. It is a mindset that a “single cure for cancer” is non-existent and nearly impossible. Is it? Or are we just ignoring the real stances to fight this phenomenon?

Cancer is a known group of diseases that is successful for the fact that it circulates common worldwide fears and imposes a grave threat as a mass killer, victimizing 8.2 million in 2012 alone.

Roots of cancer cases are tobacco use (35%), diet and obesity (30%), radiation (10%), stress (5%) and environmental pollution (5%). Science says that 70% of cancer-causing factors are lifestyle-related, amounting 5.7 million lives that were either over-using tobacco, ignoring their diet or stressing out too much. If cancer is regarded as a worldwide slayer, then we, as human as ourselves, are prime guilty of victimizing ourselves. Practices that are globally incorporated into our lifestyles are pulling the trigger. For time immemorial, we accept the belief of cancer as an invincible disease. Once again, cancer is successful for the fact that it drives men to pass on generations of illusions and lies when the practical stance to fight the cancer phenomenon is in us. Cancer is not medically contagious, malignant tumors and cancer cells only spread within the host. 3,650 years of cancer have proven cancer as practically and morally contagious. The truth is, human practice kills — man self-destructs. If we’d just dissipate acceptable cancerous lifestyles or value prevention, then we’d grasp the solution for this practical and moral epidemic. Let’s save 5.7 millions of lives or more before it’s too late. (John Paul Aves | Cor Jesu College)