For this week’s blog I read an article on war but not the kind of war with guns. When you hear the word “war” you think of the army and the guns that they use but people never think of cancer as a war. My grandma had skin cancer when I was twelve and even watching her go through that was a war in itself. For the person who has cancer it is the biggest war of your life. When I saw this article I though it would have been the perfect one to do for this subject. This man in the article got a tumor right in his lymph nodes (right by your throat). The doctors had told him that the usual way to get rid of this serious disease was to completely take out the entire larynx or the voice box. The man was absolutely terrified of this but instead he made it out and in recovery by going through lots of chemotherapy and radiation. It is kind of funny to see how far technology has come from 1989 because in the article they say that this was very advanced and back twenty or so years the only way of survival would have been to take out the voice box. In the year now of 2009 scientists are trying to come up with ways to get rid of this was called cancer all together!
Rosenthal, Elisabeth. “The Cancer War: A Major Advance.” New York Times. 8 October 1989. 15 March 2009. <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DE7DA123EF93BA35753C1A96F948260&scp=5&sq=cancer%20wars&st=cse>.
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