Kennedy and Cancer

Sad news today from Massachusetts General Hospital.

I can’t help wondering if it had been tumors, rather than assassins’ bullets, that picked off the Kennedy brothers one by one if we would be closer today to a cure. I guess probably not—they certainly wouldn’t have been the first high profile victims of this awful disease.

What I do think would put us closer to a cure is a President willing to vow in the State of the Union that we as a nation would make it our mission to cure cancer in ten years—the way John Kennedy vowed we would go to the moon—and then be willing to do all that they could to make it happen. That might get something done. No more chemotherapy, no more radiation, and definitely no more steroids. What we need is a cure.

Good luck Senator. My heart goes out to you and your family.