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A Grim Battle

Some extraordinary human stories that cancer brings into shart relief have been highlighted by Gina Kolata's story about the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/health/research/25anderson.html?em

The battle continues - between medical science and cancer. Who will win? That is probably not going to be decided in my lifetime ...

Humans have won occasional battles - some miracle drugs that cure some forms of cancer and other forms of treatment that manage to keep cancer under control ...

The war continues ...

I was just wondering why is it that it's only our spcies that suffers from this scourge - what about all the other thousands and millions of animal species? Why don't they suffer from cancer? Or, may be, they do, but evolution ensures that they don't survive and are thus weeded out.

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