The word cancer originates with the Proto-Indo-European word for “to be hard”. It came to mean crab in reference to the animal’s hard shell.  Later, early physicians, when describing certain tumors which had spidery extension from the main malignancy, called them crab-like, or cancerous.  The cancer cell also has a hard shell.

Cancer, if it has not already struck you or someone close to you, is spreading among the population.  Some family member, close friend, co-worker, boss or even yourself maybe is in treatment, recovery or has succumbed to the disease.  For the money that has been thrown at cancer, the marches, the pins, the teddy bears purchased, the ongoing cancer drives, we know more about how the disease functions once it begins but we have no cure and really don’t know how we get it.  We try drugging it into remission, we cut it out or we burn it …