I agree with Jackie...too much money lost if a cure is found.  My girlfriend has cancer and her first 9 treatments were $32,000 each.. One shot the day after her first treatment was $12,000 ...that was for one shot. 

We will never know how we would react to such a thing untill it is us . It is the only way , never give up , never give up .............. God will give you the strenght ...............

................. HUGS ....................... Don ........................

VacaGal,

I too hate it for Patrick, I always remember him in "Dirty Dancing" my all time favorite and now that he is in the hospital with pnemonia I send up my prayers.

As for you statement about cancer, it isn't the cure that we should seek, we should seek the causes, alot that has to do with environmental issues.  The stuff we put into the air, into our soil that goes into the water we drink.  I lost a dear cousin this past June that ate healthy, lived healthy from cancer.  And at that time I found out about the things that went on behind the house I grew up in.  An ammunition depot that in the 80s became a superfund they took millions of yards of contaminated soil out of it and now it is a natural preserve, to figure.  They tested all sorts of stuff and dumped it there.  Agent Orange one of them.  My cousin lost her son who was 36 to cancer a few years ago.  Her husband  has had cancer.  Her father has had cancer.  My mother died of cancer, and numberous neighbors that lived around there...Wells that surrounded river are probably the cause.

I am so glad to hear you are a survivor.  My husband was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Stage 3 in October of 2007 and has been cancer free Since April 2008.  And another contention all the medications we take for these ailments and that...somes of the side affects are worse then the ailment.  Turn of the century you never heard of anyone dying of cancer or such...They died maybe because of a abcessed tooth (my grandfather did) no antibiotics,  or just the natural order of things. This is my opionion all these drugs do we really know how safe they are?

Sorry, to go on, but this blog struck me. Thanks for a thought provoking blog.

I read somewhere that drug companies who make chemo drugs and anti nausea drugs have something to do with that.  Cancer is very expensive to treat and drug companies have more lobbyists in D.C. then any other area. There are 44 lobbyists in D.C. for every Senator and Congressman. Like you I often wonder why we are so good at technology but stink at finding cures.
Money talks....

Patrick is wealthy so I am thinking at least he could afford the best treatment available as opposed to the rest of the population.

Jackie

I watched that special too.I love him.It is very disgusting the money spent on war and political BS instead of  medical research.

I think that Patrick and Randy Pauch share the same outlook. Even though Randy P died of liver Cancer you may enjoy his outlook on what do I do now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Suzan