Growing up with a mother who works in the Cancer Treatment field has given me a great amount of respect and interest in the mystery that is Cancer. In 1998 I lost one of my greatest heroes, my grandfather, in his battle with cancer. While personally I never thought we would beat cancer as a whole since to me it made sense that it would just happen it isn’t a disease its a mutation of your cells.
It would appear that other scientists have the same view. Mother Jones (I know, I know) has a great piece that I encourage everyone to read.
I found it interesting that I am 64% more likely to get cancer than my wife based on height alone. I guess that is a curse of being tall, my brother is apparently 32% more likely than myself. Its the things you just don’t think about normally.
