I always knew how bad cancer is, but I only just now found out how damn common it is.

@Byron8by7 Well, you're right in that most probably try to ignore it, whistling as they walk by the graveyard so to speak. But I remember the reaction of my late wife when she detected a lump in her breast and had it confirmed as cancer. She shrugged and said, "with the history of cancer in my family -- particularly among the women -- I knew it was inevitable. Now that it is here I can finally deal with it". And she did go into full remission from the breast cancer after a mastectomy and prophylactic chemotherapy. Only to die from unrelated lung cancer which she might have been able to prevent if she had stopped smoking earlier, or never started. And as for us men -- the adage is if you live long enough, that prostate is going to get cancerous when it no longer serves that much of a useful purpose.