| "Whether you think that you can, or that you | | | | certainty. |
| can't, you are usually right" | | | | The first reaction to cancer is normal it is usually |
| -Henry Ford- | | | | a deep sense of fear and panic, which can be |
| Cancer is a unique disease and the footprint of | | | | followed by a sense of depression. Those people |
| that disease changes according to your unique | | | | that follow that pattern are likely to prove a |
| body and your unique environment. No two cases | | | | probability of a statistic to be correct. |
| of cancer are exactly equal and that in itself | | | | Panic is normal, but this is the one time in your life |
| makes a mockery of cancer survival statistics. It | | | | that you have to overcome fear. Your destiny is |
| can be frightening, and at first glance they can | | | | in your hands and only your hands, you can beat |
| induce a sense of panic. | | | | the odds, and a belief in the fact that you can |
| However the statistics are just that a probability | | | | buck a statistic is the first step. |
| of occurrence. There is nothing written in stone | | | | Whatever you read or see about cancer survival |
| about cancer survival statistics. As you are unique | | | | statistics, whether it is a medical paper, on the |
| you have every chance of bucking the survival | | | | television, on the radio, in a newspaper or on the |
| statistics. A cancer survival statistic cannot tell | | | | Internet, does not mean that they have to apply |
| you have "X" number of years to live. Have faith | | | | to you. It is your body and your cancer and you |
| that you can beat the odds and you possibly can, | | | | are in control and the earlier that you exercise |
| conversely have faith that you will die and it | | | | that control the better you will be. |
| increases the risk that that will become a | | | | |