In a new op-ed published in collaboration with Island Press, Kristina Marusic (author of A New War on Cancer) pushes back against attempts to normalize cancer as an inevitability.
Marusic writes:
Any cancer survivor will tell you they’d have preferred prevention over a cure. Treatment is painful and many survivors experience side effects and additional health problems related to the disease or its treatment that linger for a lifetime. This outlook posits that survival is all that matters and is the best we should dare hope for, denying the universal human desire for a healthy, comfortable quality of life for ourselves and the people we love.
Suggesting that we should no longer worry about preventing cancer because treatments have gotten better is like saying cars have gotten much safer, so none of us should bother wearing seatbelts anymore.
Read the full piece published in Environmental Health News HERE.
