Attitude does matter, but not in the way we often think it does. We have learned from the long-term cancer survivors that it takes social support and connectedness on this journey. Some people with cancer and their families think doctors are keeping the cure for cancer under wraps so that money can be made from cancer treatments. Now, let s think about this for a moment. Nurses get cancers.
Pharmacists get cancer.
Physicians get cancer, as do family members of these professionals. With the Internet and high-speed modems, it is inconceivable that some scientist laboring in isolation in a bunker someplace will have a cure for this problem. A cure for cancer does not exist in cyberspace, or in a clinic in Mexico, or with a healer in the Philippines. We can send a rocket around Jupiter. This question underscores a common misbelief that cancer is one disease.