Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
Cancer cells have had so many other things go wrong with them, genetic, non-genetic changes, that those cells, one of the things they then get selected for is that they have lots of telomerase because now the telomeres in those cells get maintained.
It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.
Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.
So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.
