Did I miss the memo or something? Cancer is in vogue nowadays?

Countless ads and pitches to donate to cancer research, ribbons of every freakin' color, yellow rubber bracelets now equally as cool as some iced out bling..people who have beaten cancer referred to as 'survivors' as if being lucky enough to surmount a fatal medical condition isn't enough. People with cancer being fawned over like they are the chosen of God and implored to be strong, every other marathon and mundane consumer product being tied into some fundraiser. When did cancer become so damn cool? I agree we need research and advances in medicine to fight it better, but did they have to go all out and make it trendy? No one would care a fraction of the amount they do about it if it didn't affect so many white people of upper income that are considered 'upper crust'. That is my biggest beef with all the slavish support people give to fight cancer: if it only afflicted other kinds of people, they wouldn't care less!

Did I miss the memo or something? Cancer is in vogue nowadays?
It's cool now, because Pharmaceutical companies have a treatment that the Insurance companies will pay for.





Expect more hot, sexy cool commercials about beating the cancer. What they fail to mention is the side effects of the treatment, like nerve damage from the chemo and the likelihood that your cancer will return in another form. You're still a ticking bomb, even after you beat it. I hear myself ticking each day.
Reply:My dear, cancer does affect those "other kinds of people." It does not have the ability to choose its host based on race or income.