Thanks to our Guest Blogger, Matthew Zachary, from i2Y (I’m Too Young For This Cancer Foundation)

There is no cure for cancer.

It is a biological disease that impacts each of us uniquely and individually on a genetic and cellular level, the causes of which will continue to remain largely unknown.

Spouses, children and parents of Pharmaceutical CEOs die from cancer every day so no one is “hiding” a magic pill somewhere in Dick Cheney’s underground bunker.

The “cure” for cancer is the same as the “cure” for Diabetes and HIV – a managed disease that you try not to let kill you right away and that you live with for as long as you can. In which case, the “cure” is survivorship because of the millions who do survive, most deal with the consequences of surviving for the rest of their lives and just hope it doesn’t come back. End of story.

 After all, “cure” is an arbitrary term like “God”. It is not one single thing and it means different things to different people, if anything at all to most. It is an exploited marketing phrase that has been co-opted and exploited to convince the masses to open their wallets without objective judgment. Cure sells. Like bald kids on Jennifer Aniston’s lap and dying pets with Sarah Mclachlan. Like anything else, we believe what we want to believe and we can’t see past the questions we don’t understand.

Stupid cancer.

Our Founder and Executive Director, Marcia Donziger, will be on the Stupid Cancer Show tonight, March 21st. To tune in go to http://bit.ly/gTZzCj She’ll be part of a panel discussing parenting and cancer.