Damn You, Metastasis !!!

"You are diagnosed with cancer". That one sentence from the doctor could make everyone's world came crashing down. To the one diagnosed, this would be like a death sentence, especially after she knew that the damned cancer was already at a very late stage.

No, I don't have cancer. It's someone whom I cared about, one of my aunts. She was always healthy, very active and never ate any kinds of food that were not beneficial for her health. No one would expect her to get cancer. It's unfair, really. There are many bad people out there who deserve this cancer, and not her. Why do the nice people always get the bad things?

She has always been a very nice aunt to me, a great older sister and a mother figure to my father. Every time my family goes to my father's hometown she would always accommodate us, she was always the one who prepared the most food and almost everything else, excited that her beloved youngest brother is coming home. Why must this happen to her? I also don't know, she deserves none of this. I can't imagine her being pale and in pain. This is not fair, not fair at all.

Just at the end of last year, I lost my uncle, my father's older brother. He lost the battle with cancer because he was diagnosed far too late. He was a nice man, a loving uncle, brother, husband, father, and grandfather. You name it. He was also a very caring person also, he took care of one of our elderly distance relative even though he didn't have to. He's also very friendly and warm, every time my family came to his house, he would always have stories to tell. All of us felt the loss when he was gone, everyone was shocked. It was not fair, life is never fair.

I'm scared. I don't want any of my other family members get it. But cancer can just come to anyone. You don't have to be heavy smoker to get it. After all, cancer is caused by some random mutations in our gene. One mutation in a special gene called proto-oncogene, will change it to oncogene, and basically that's where everything takes off. Can you imagine how one blasted mutation in a really minute gene can make those who get it suffer a lot? 

The damned thing about cancer is that it has this ability to metastasize. Metastasis means that the cancer cells lose anchorage dependence and can attack other parts of the body. This explains why  Augustus Waters from the TFIOS could 'lit up like Christmas tree' in one of his tests. Metastasis occurs at the later stage of cancer. Usually people get diagnosed at stage 3 or 4, when this damned thing has already occurred. It's impossible to cure the patients when the cancer is already all over their body. Without metastasis, curing cancer would be much easier, I guess. So, DAMN YOU METASTASIS! Without metastasis, they don't have to suffer this much.