Rhetoric of Cancer
Cancer has been a very long time killer yet has still no cure. At some point in some people's lives, cancer comes unexpected. It chooses no one to attack. It is so popular that we associate it with the word 'death'. "When you have cancer, death follows."It haunts everyone because of the fear of dying. People with cancer almost stop living as normal person but as a patient continuously being aided by medical technology.
With the advanced technology in the medical field, several doctors are engaging in intensive research on how to put a cure on this disease but sadly, up until now, no cure has been found. Expensive therapy and medication don't cure you from the disease, they simply prolong your life and see the world a bit longer but the days are different from before. Cancer not only affects the physical state but also leaves a heavy depression on the patient and family.
The days are numbered and day by day, body becomes weaker, depression takes over the mind and hair starts falling off. This is a common scenario for cancer patients.
"Fight it! Live your life!", many would say to a cancer patient, but a cancer patient is still a cancer patient. We cannot fully comprehend the level of grief because basically we don't experience it. Hating one's own body and almost battling against oneself, that's a clue but we cannot imagine the extent of sadness it brings. How will a cancer patient be able to tell his/her family that the disease has entered his/her body?The mental breakdown that cancer cells are consuming the person's body and that death is slowly on its way?
As what Andrew Graystone said in the podcast , cancer comes with a masculine and military language because it takes a courage of a soldier to be a cancer fighter (not being sexist here).
Cancer has been a very long time killer yet has still no cure. At some point in some people's lives, cancer comes unexpected. It chooses no one to attack. It is so popular that we associate it with the word 'death'. "When you have cancer, death follows."It haunts everyone because of the fear of dying. People with cancer almost stop living as normal person but as a patient continuously being aided by medical technology.
With the advanced technology in the medical field, several doctors are engaging in intensive research on how to put a cure on this disease but sadly, up until now, no cure has been found. Expensive therapy and medication don't cure you from the disease, they simply prolong your life and see the world a bit longer but the days are different from before. Cancer not only affects the physical state but also leaves a heavy depression on the patient and family.
The days are numbered and day by day, body becomes weaker, depression takes over the mind and hair starts falling off. This is a common scenario for cancer patients.
"Fight it! Live your life!", many would say to a cancer patient, but a cancer patient is still a cancer patient. We cannot fully comprehend the level of grief because basically we don't experience it. Hating one's own body and almost battling against oneself, that's a clue but we cannot imagine the extent of sadness it brings. How will a cancer patient be able to tell his/her family that the disease has entered his/her body?The mental breakdown that cancer cells are consuming the person's body and that death is slowly on its way?
As what Andrew Graystone said in the podcast , cancer comes with a masculine and military language because it takes a courage of a soldier to be a cancer fighter (not being sexist here).
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