Topic of Cancer

The dreaded Cancer, seems to me, gets much too much publicity. In restaurants, both fast and fine, at parties up and down the line, in hurried conversations at the place I buy food for my cat, the barber or the hairdressers, wherever gather hims and hers, the Cancer Chat is all the rage. Why, one can hardly turn a page of any monthly, weekly, daily, but there is “Cancer” hearty-haley written or advertised about as if its fame must be spread out to every cranny dark or light. You’d think Cancer was boon not blight. And clearly there is some obsession within the medical profession for keeping Cancer at the core of physiological lore. They pet- or ct-scan every inch if we complain of ache or pinch. Mention a pain, from toe to eye? They’ll send you for an MRI. Amounts of money much too great are spent, as if to celebrate the lure of Cancer’s beck and call— I’m sick and tired of it all. But please...don’t tell another soul I’m sick and tired. Just say “he’s whole” if they should question, give that answer or I’ll be suspected of having Cancer!