“Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
However, the subsequent belittling of Biden was pure Trump from the heart. It is striking how perfectly Trump succeeds in projecting his own characteristics onto his perceived enemies: "Not a smart person . . . vicious . . . hurt a lot of people."
This is why screening for cancer is ever more important now. Of course new treatments for cancer can attack the disease from different pathways but if a cancerous tumor is caught early on it can be treated and managed better over a longer term.
The catch 22 is if people are losing their health insurance they don’t have as much access to treatment. Being health conscious is a great thing but even the seemingly most healthy person can be vulnerable to cancer. Now is the time to practice good self care. Eat healthy get more exercise and sleep and if you’re still fortunate enough to have your health insurance get a physical and take advantage of screening tests for cancer. These are things we can do until hopefully medical research can get back on firm footing with regard to funding and clinical trials. Until then be well!
I also recommend going to the dentist twice a year, as dental cleanings and appointments allow for early detection of oral cancers. That is another reason that I believe Medicare and Medicaid need to include dental.
I have been fortunate enough to work as an Academic research scientist for 40 years. It is the only thing I ever wanted to do and don’t really consider it work. I have made some contributions to our knowledge base that contribute to the fight against cancer. I am retiring next year but feel so sad for the next generation of scientists as their passion for knowledge and discovery is being downgraded if not dismissed by this abomination of an administration.
Germany was once the preeminent scientific country in the world. Then the Nazis took over and politicized it and punished those who wouldn’t bow down. Germany never recovered. I fear we are heading down the same self-destructive path.
Vincent, cancer remains a tough nut to crack but great progress has been made. I too feel sad for the near future of young scientists in America who see this war on academia, basic research and evidence-based knowledge as a reason to move-on.
And I agree that America has slipped into a downward spiral with frightening similarities to Nazi Germany.
However, unlike Hitler, Trump and his followers do not realize that the constitutional checkpoints they have unlawfully breached (so far) will eventually snag their ability to spread their hated.
For when the bullets really start flying, it'll be a circular firing squad, IMHO.
Are they so stupid they think they are immune from the many forms of cancer? This makes zero sense, but then I keep making the same mistake in trying to figure it out. There is no logic, or "sense" to anything they do. I am so sick of them. I'm desparately trying to design my NO KINGS protest signs to say what I want without being profane, or getting myself arrested for insurrection. The snowflakes can't handle opposition to their stupidity.
The only way President 🌮 would ever support cancer research is if he got a great thwacking dose of it himself. We all know he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anybody but himself, and this is just one more example of how he works.
My granddaughter was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia a couple weeks shy of her sixth birthday in 2019. She was given a 97% chance of survival. A child with the same disease 50 years earlier had a 4% chance. Today she is a happy, healthy 12 year old for which I am forever grateful. Research saves lives!
Russ Vought ought to consider the effect of a million voodoo pins stuck in the cartoon caricature of his life; all the dead cancer patients he directly sent to heaven. So bent on vindication and hurtful wrath that he has forgotten Jesus died to save people like him. Poor Russ…stuck in Dantes 5th circle of Hell, where he belongs.
Why does Trump and company have such a problem with science and medicine? Cancer had not been known to run in my family until recently when my nephew had testicular cancer. Then I was found to have kidney cancer. We are all touched by it. Blank backwards idiots.
Pretty sure tRump didn't compose this:
“Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
However, the subsequent belittling of Biden was pure Trump from the heart. It is striking how perfectly Trump succeeds in projecting his own characteristics onto his perceived enemies: "Not a smart person . . . vicious . . . hurt a lot of people."
At least someone in the office is capable of writing it.
“ Cancer research is too crucial to be a partisan issue”
So true!
“ If Trump's fight against cancer research doesn't awaken people's awareness, then nothing will.”
Sad to say, but……I think nothing will. Not to people who actually voted…..twice!…..for their own destruction.
This is why screening for cancer is ever more important now. Of course new treatments for cancer can attack the disease from different pathways but if a cancerous tumor is caught early on it can be treated and managed better over a longer term.
The catch 22 is if people are losing their health insurance they don’t have as much access to treatment. Being health conscious is a great thing but even the seemingly most healthy person can be vulnerable to cancer. Now is the time to practice good self care. Eat healthy get more exercise and sleep and if you’re still fortunate enough to have your health insurance get a physical and take advantage of screening tests for cancer. These are things we can do until hopefully medical research can get back on firm footing with regard to funding and clinical trials. Until then be well!
I also recommend going to the dentist twice a year, as dental cleanings and appointments allow for early detection of oral cancers. That is another reason that I believe Medicare and Medicaid need to include dental.
I have been fortunate enough to work as an Academic research scientist for 40 years. It is the only thing I ever wanted to do and don’t really consider it work. I have made some contributions to our knowledge base that contribute to the fight against cancer. I am retiring next year but feel so sad for the next generation of scientists as their passion for knowledge and discovery is being downgraded if not dismissed by this abomination of an administration.
Germany was once the preeminent scientific country in the world. Then the Nazis took over and politicized it and punished those who wouldn’t bow down. Germany never recovered. I fear we are heading down the same self-destructive path.
Vincent, cancer remains a tough nut to crack but great progress has been made. I too feel sad for the near future of young scientists in America who see this war on academia, basic research and evidence-based knowledge as a reason to move-on.
And I agree that America has slipped into a downward spiral with frightening similarities to Nazi Germany.
However, unlike Hitler, Trump and his followers do not realize that the constitutional checkpoints they have unlawfully breached (so far) will eventually snag their ability to spread their hated.
For when the bullets really start flying, it'll be a circular firing squad, IMHO.
Are they so stupid they think they are immune from the many forms of cancer? This makes zero sense, but then I keep making the same mistake in trying to figure it out. There is no logic, or "sense" to anything they do. I am so sick of them. I'm desparately trying to design my NO KINGS protest signs to say what I want without being profane, or getting myself arrested for insurrection. The snowflakes can't handle opposition to their stupidity.
Don’t waste your energy. If your friend or relative dies of cancer it was “god’s will.”👹
If they really believe "it's gods will" they wouldn't ever seek or need medical care, they'd just live/die with whatever.
The only way President 🌮 would ever support cancer research is if he got a great thwacking dose of it himself. We all know he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anybody but himself, and this is just one more example of how he works.
My granddaughter was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia a couple weeks shy of her sixth birthday in 2019. She was given a 97% chance of survival. A child with the same disease 50 years earlier had a 4% chance. Today she is a happy, healthy 12 year old for which I am forever grateful. Research saves lives!
Russ Vought ought to consider the effect of a million voodoo pins stuck in the cartoon caricature of his life; all the dead cancer patients he directly sent to heaven. So bent on vindication and hurtful wrath that he has forgotten Jesus died to save people like him. Poor Russ…stuck in Dantes 5th circle of Hell, where he belongs.
Elections have consequences, so does willful ignorance
Why does Trump and company have such a problem with science and medicine? Cancer had not been known to run in my family until recently when my nephew had testicular cancer. Then I was found to have kidney cancer. We are all touched by it. Blank backwards idiots.