I’m going to venture to say the word cancer can be an extremely hated words we hear today.
Vickie Wacaster is a Vickie Wacaster, Patient and Hospice Advocate with Aveanna Hospice (formerly Comfort Care Hospice)
Our lives have been forever altered for those who have been affected by cancer, whether through direct contact or in indirect ways. Cancer is not a selective disease. It affects people of all religions and nationalities, without any social, economic or geographic restrictions. People who have always taken good care of their bodies – consumed the right diet and exercised regularly and did their best, and people who abuse their bodies since a young age. It affects the wealthy as well as the poor, elderly and young.
It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month for Breast Cancer. Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Breast cancer ranks as the second most prevalent cancer among women. And while breast cancer is more prevalent among women, it is also able to be a problem for males. According to CDC around 1 in 100 breast cancers discovered within the United States will be found in males. The good news is that 64 percent of breast cancer cases are diagnosed in the early stages that is, that the cancer is not progressed. In those instances the five-year survival rate is 98 percent. In 2023, there will be over 3.8 million cancerous breast patients across the United States. While early detection is essential to long-term survival, we remain hopeful and try to find finding a cure.
As vaccines for fatal diseases like polio, smallpox and tetanus are being discovered and cures for tuberculosis and other infections have proven effective, we are hopeful that in the near future, we’ll have the cure to treat breast cancer. With the advanced technologies available to our modern world and we are making steps towards a cure that is complete. However, in the meantime numerous new treatments have been developed to fight breast cancer, with promising outcomes. Be sure to remember that cancer will not take away your faith. It may be a test, but it will not cause harm to it, as we are aware that cancer is not a threat to the soul.
Most importantly, keep in mind that cancer can’t take away your faith. It can test it but it won’t cause harm, as we are aware that cancer can’t affect the soul. We hope that God continues to heal the hearts and lives of our family members and friends who are affected by any form of cancer.
I’d like be the last person to say two words that are in the midst of truth: “You beat cancer by living your life and why you live and how that you conduct yourself.” — Stuart Scott, and the words of Dr. Gary Breslow, “Don’t be afraid to seek the assistance you require whether it’s for an appointment or the assistance of a hand your loved ones will be happy to help in any way that they are able to.”
– Vickie C. Wacaster is a hospice patient and advocacy with Aveanna Hospice.
The article The battle with cancer can be a difficult journey was first published in The Andalusia Star-News.
