As part of my Lenten penance for posting a direct link to an article even though Brian had hustled it up for the OCF news, I thought I would point out a very provocative article from the New York Times that appeared in the OCF News Feed to all those who don't check OCF news feed religiously:
Here is are excerpts to entice you[quote]
We�re all familiar with sentences like this one: Mr. Smith died yesterday after a long battle with cancer....It�s one of the clich�s of cancer... We like to say that people �fight� cancer because we wrestle fearfully with the notion of ever having the disease. We have turned cancer into one of our modern devils......How can it be a battle when we patients are the actual battleground? We are caught in the middle, between our doctors and their potential tools of healing and the cell-devouring horde.[/quote]
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Lets Face it, Words are Inadequate for Cancer -
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