I recently had a discussion with an insurance agent, and as we talked, she revealed to me that she had lost her husband to cancer. We immediately struck up an in-depth conversation about cancer and all of the alternative cancer treatments that they had tried, but to no avail. She was very intelligent and appeared to be very knowledgeable about alternative cancer treatments. She was familiar with most of the treatments that I mentioned.
Luckily, it had been a while since she had lost her husband, so she wasn’t overwhelmed with emotions as we talked. But as we talked, I noticed that she thought that shrinking the tumor was the exact same thing as getting rid of the cancer. I told her that the tumor was NOT the same thing as the cancer. In fact, the tumor is merely a symptom of the cancer. continue reading…