Cancer Sucks!

Cancer Sucks!

Saying “Cancer sucks!” is no great revelation to those stricken with that insidious disease or to family members and friends of the afflicted but it truly does suck.

One of the worst things about cancer–aside from the obvious–are the long-extant rumors that cures are available and that researchers and pharmaceutical companies prefer to conceal them since continuing the quest for cures and supplying over-priced drugs are such lucrative enterprises.

It’s the old, “If we can put men on the moon, why can’t we cure cancer?” question, a good and valid question best refuted by the facts that everyone from scientists to pharma execs–to Joe Blow and his family–are and can become victims of the BIG C.

Back when I was a kid during the Dark Ages of the 1950′s, we didn’t hear much about cancer. Most often we heard only shocked statements like, “They opened him up and it was all over his insides so they just closed him up,” and “he” soon died. No commentary on treatments, no praise of cures, not even miraculous interventions.

“He” or ”She” just died.

Today, things are different, very different, thanks mainly to the medical free enterprise system in which doctors and medical scientists haven’t been burdened, until lately, with government restrictions and inhibitions, free to develop innovative treatments, procedures, remedies, and cures.

I won’t vouch for an attack of conscience on the parts of cancer researchers or execs at Big Pharm but cancer treatments, ameliorative procedures, and successful cures are now widely available and effective. They’re not 100%guaranteed, but what is?

Come full implementation of Obamacare in 2014 when America fully commits to the model for our health care, Britain’s National Health Service, which picks and chooses who should live and who should die and save some money because hospital beds and doctors–and interest in preserving life–are in short supply, medical advances may come to a screeching halt.

Barack Obama and his fellow Obamians have used the unsettling image of “pulling the plug on grandma” as a tool to reduce protestors of Obamacare to the level of uninformed absurdists at the same time they know full well that not only will grandma’s plug be yanked but her hospital bed will be vacated before she is cold to make way for the next victim.

The best bet for grannie and anyone else afflicted with serious illnesses is to find cures for as many afflictions as possible before Obamacare kicks in and effectively says, Don’t bother.

Toward the end of curing one of the most pervasive and pernicious forms of cancer is to Think Pink Rocks.

Think Pink Rocks is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the necessity for early and genetic testing for breast cancer research and funding breast cancer screening, treatment, and research.

New York City’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Research Center, the American Cancer Society, The H.O.P.E. Project, and other worthy charities have partnered with and benefitted from TPR’s various activities.

Those activities have included a Designer Clothes Charity Drive, a concert at the Mizner Amphitheater in Boca Raton, and an anticipated large sponsorship for the upcoming NYC Half Marathon, the NYC Half 2012, on March 18th.

This year, all proceeds from TPR’s NYC Half 2012 will be donated to Memorial Sloan-Kettering for breast cancer research.

See the Think Pink Rocks website here http://www.thinkpinkrocks.com/ and consider donating much-needed contributions in any amount for a very worthwhile cause.

The United States Supreme Court will soon decide whether Obamacare is constitutional. By supporting Think Pink Rocks, Americans can decide whether TPR continues to help cancer victims.