This article is about the lack of any substantial information to find the cure for cancer.
Gina Kolata, the speaker and the author of this article, reviewed a cancer patient, Ms. Phyllis Kutt, who is the audience, recieves compassion for her reoccuring cancer.
Ms. Kutt is one of the many victims who suffers from difficult rehabilitation, and years later she still needs to keep going because her cancer is now beginning to spread throughout her body.
The occasion is the "promise" President Obama made which is to cure cancer, which is included in his stimulus package to fund research for a cure.
However, President Nixon made a similar promise that in 1976 cancer would be cured. This just goes to show the negligence and the continual "normalcy" people feel towards cancer.
The tone in this article is aggravated patience, that despite everything that the cancer patients suffer, internally and externally, they still have to wait patiently while they continue to struggle.
The subject of this article is to point out the importance of this issue and how it personally effects the patients. Ms. Kutt is rarely greeted with a smile, but is stared down due to her baldness because of the chemotherapy.
Cancer patients are almost treated like another race, and that definitely says something that there are enough people with cancer to make a minority - maybe soon a majority, unfortunately.
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