Appreciate that cancer need not necessarily disrupt either your profession or your joie de vivre. Since there is nothing like a cure for cancer, insist on being treated symptom- far and no further. Any form of therapeutic radicalism is despicable overkill by medicine. You owe a duty to your body and soul in the form of a dignified death. Do not deny yourself the dignity of dying.
Cancer is a species, class, or ordinal character.
You can neither inherit it, nor pass it on to your progeny.