Metastatic liver cancer

Father made the effort to start his online journal about his metastatic liver cancer at a stage of his life where the energy and life was drained out of his body.

With all respect to father, I am going to re-read his complete metastatic liver cancer blog and try to make it in some sort of e-book.

I would love other cancer patients and cancer care givers to join: leave a small comment about what cancer is in your life or what it means for you.

The idea is that all the people that still have to undergo sooner or later cancer within their lives, have some support from similar cancer stories.

Every cancer story is different, yet it all involves cancer.

Every person is different, yet we all are humans.

Our Spreads like Cancer Squares!

Father wanted to make sure that the voices of cancer would be heard.

And we want to show these voices as fast as cancer spreads. So I need your help:

• do you have a cancer (awareness blog)
• do you have a loved ones with cancer

Tell us about it in a comment, so we can make a growing square of cancer voices!

Let’s illustrate how fast cancer spreads

I am using square filled with cancer blogs to illustrate how cancer spreads: in all directions!

1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100…

Let’s get our first 4, then 9, then 16….

Every time we fill a square, I will announce it and we start building the next square!

You don’t have a favicon?

The girls at Linky Love can make one for you! How?

• write a post on your blog where you mention that Linky Love is making you a favicon
• Link to http://www.linkylove.net with the following 2 anchor texts:
• Add your link
• Linky Love

How to join Spreads like Cancer?

Be sure to fill in the three important parts of your viral icon, which is:

1. the source of your favicon or ask Linky Love to make one for you,
2. the hyperlink to your blog, and
3. the alt text

———Copy and paste the Spreads like Cancer square below this line———

Instructions:

1. Upload your "Host Icon": a non-animated favicon (GIF image of size 16×16 pixels) to ImageShack, a similar free image hosting server or to your own server provided by your hosting service if you have one.
2. Substitute the Host Icon with your favicon, ALT text of choice and your blog’s URL. Maximum of 3 specific keywords for the ALT text are best for it to be effective.
3. When I get a ping back from someone that has added their Host Icon favicon, I will add it in my Spreads like Cancer square
4. Invite your readers, friends, family to join!

Host Icon:

The original cancer matrix : 4 voices of cancer

• Rules: Cancer sites only.
• Important: Once I get a ping back from you (I promise to do the best I can), I will add your "Host Icon" favicon and the associated code in the above Spreads like Cancer square.
• Drop a comment here with your blog URL, ALT tags and favicon URL

———Copy and paste the Spreads like Cancer instructions above this line———

Cleaning up comments, I came across this very interesting comment of Jane Chin on my post : Why is cancer still around?

Summarized I said:

• because cancer is big business for the drug and medicine companies,
• because cancer brings in lots of money for the hospitals.

Jane says:

I disagree with the logic that cancer is around because it is a business. People get cancer for all sorts of reasons - poor prevention (people still smoke and burn themselves under the sun to get a tan) or unlucky genetics to name a couple of those reasons. It is true that healthcare providers and drug companies generate a revenue from the products and services around cancer. However, the
implication that somehow there is no cure for cancer or even a causation of cancer because there is a conspiracy of greed seems in my personal opinion a flawed over-generalization.

My opinion and comment on Jane Chin’s comment

I agree when Jane says there is poor prevention:

• poor: if you have no money, your health will suffer from it
• poor prevention:
• every day I have to breath in sick air because oil and charcoal businesses do everything they can in order not to get healthy energy getting in the way to make a profit
• every day most of us are eating food with residues of pesticides, antibiotics and hormones, how to prevent diseases if you cannot eat healthy?

We humans live on food and air, but where do we find healthy food and healthy air?

Therefore I say that a conspiracy of greed is an under-generalization! Why no stem-cell research? Because of moral reasons? Who is telling me what morals to follow?

Cancer is about cells… If you could find a stem-cell cancer cure : what morals do you have to justify it is morally unjust to cure a person?

All feedback most welcome!

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