Cancer
While I was struggling to contribute a little to cancer research, my friend's mother lost her battle to cancer. Her dad just died a year ago of the same disease. I am sure there are many other people losing their lives at this very moment to cancer while I am playing around in the lab with the cancer cells that I cultured.
I cannot imagine myself losing both my parents within a year to the same evil disease. Cancer, a disease which spawns from yourself, a rebel, not a foreign invasion, makes it even more difficult to combat. There is really nothing I can do here besides going back to the lab tomorrow and have a look at my specimen under the fluorescence microscope, order a new antibody to find out another potential therapeutic target. I hope we can progress towards helping cancer patients fight against these cunning and resilient rebels. Besides, I wish her and her family members well.
Mrs Leow, rest in peace...
I thought of seeing her when I go home next month. But, the news told me that I will never be able to do that. Thanks for your wishes and your gift when I left for England at that time.
At the Cambridge Cancer Centre Symposium, one verse which caught my eye at the Cancer Research Institute at Addenbrookes Site is
" Together We Can Beat Cancer"
But the irony is while scientists are fighting behind the scene, they are the ones who face problems with research grants. Scientists are at the mercy of big corporation, big pharmaceutical companies, charity organisations etc. If we want to beat cancer, everyone should wake up and give the scientists support. I mean everyone, especially those who are earning big bugs because you never know how important it is until you are diagnosed with it.
posted by Wei Shen @ 2:18 PM
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