Not only is she charming, but she's got brains too. 
Why is cancer so difficult to treat? We made great strides in understanding the disease when Dr.Judah Folkman proposed angiogenesis. According to the old theory of a growing tumor, the blood vessels just dilated. Angiogenesis proposed that for a tumor to grow, it needs a feeding support which it gets from new blood vessels forming and signaling molecules near it (
NCI). This was a radical new way to understand cancer, but the fact that there are so many different cancers is why I believe the disease is hard to control. The fact that it can also metastasize to other organs of the body prove how difficult it is to treat. For gastric cancer, most symptoms occur late when the cancer is already in its advanced stage. H.Pylori is a culprit and many scientists believe that a poor diet may also be responsible. There are a plethora of other risk factors that can promote many other cancer (not counting hereditary). With so many risk factors, it is evident that scientists (and we also for that matter) have a real problem in our hands.
Finding cures will require us to think outside the box (like Dr. Judah Folkman) and some cures may require drastic measures. Yet, some authorities in the 21st century may still use religion as a way to nip that effort in the bud. We cannot be too pusillanimous in the fight against cancer. The government needs to allocate funds to serious research and stop this deadly disease in its tracks.
