When my music teacher had melanoma, they tried so many things. Some of them were so new that when she was first diagnosed they didn't exist outside a research l

When my music teacher had melanoma, they tried so many things. Some of them were so new that when she was first diagnosed they didn't exist outside a research lab. The progression of cancer treatment has been amazing, but with its ultimate spectre of being a disease that could start with any cell division, any time, anywhere in your body it's so good to see more research paying off. I think most people are scared of it, since we know it's going to get us all eventually (if we don't die of something else first). Sadly my teacher ultimately didn't survive - but without new developments she would probably have died a good five or six years earlier, and her quality of life was really only bad for the last three months or so. She lived to see her children become adults, and she was so grateful for that. But we can dream of a world where nobody in their fifties succumbs to something like this.