The cataloguing of the biological features of cancer in the earlier chapter cannot ameliorate the hurt feelings and the dis-eased body of a cancer patient.
Cancer is a human problem, as are other diseases, and death.
Cancer, so often, does not mean a death- sentence, and is compatible with a long life. Freud, the father of modern psychiatry, developed cancer of the mouth at the age of 67, and died of something different altogether, at the age of 83. It is not for us too choose the whether, what and when of cancer. Rather when cancer does occur, we must make the best of it. The inception of the cancer, in each person listed above, was as a very small, silent event that predeterminedly affected, at one or more places, a small number of cells - cells that were originally normal.