Of all the disease that may afflict us, none is more feared than cancer. In the past two decades medical science has made enormous progress in unraveling the mysteries of cancer and in treating it. And yet, even though a patient chance of surviving are greater today than they have ever been, the death toll from cancer continues to rise. It is much higher than it was forty years ago.
That, strangely, is a sign of our improving health. Today, the life expectancy is higher than ever. Many of the diseases that in the past were considered fatal like cholera, poliomyelitis, malaria, pneumonia, typhoid etc, now no longer are dangerous in much of the developed countries. Most of us are living longer, although we expose ourselves at sixties or seventies to heart attacks or strokes or disease, or from today’s major killers that are the vast variety of cancers.
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