Is cancer good or bad?

Question

For one of my classes, I have to write a 3 page essay answering the question, Is cancer good or bad? I can think of a million reasons why it would be bad, but why would my professor ever think that it could be a good thing?

Answer 1

I've heard some cancer survivors say things like "Even if I could I wouldn't change a thing." Followed my something like: Having cancer has made me stronger or wiser or whatever. I think it's a load of crap! I'm a cancer survivor and if I could change it I would. You can quote me in your essay if you like by telling your professor that there is NOTHING good about cancer other than the fact that it's making a lot of doctors very wealthy and that I think he's a complete loon for asking such a question!

Answer 2

I all but wished the cancer on myself because at the time I felt I had personal problems I couldn't solve, but I didn't feel it was right to kill myself.

But when I actually got sick, I decided to fight, 'just in case' - after all, it would be tragic if I realized on my deathbed that life is worth living, and here it's too late to do anything about it.

I very quickly had to learn to trust that the matter was being taken care of Upstairs, because the disease progressed very fast. We're talking a new tumor in my lymph nodes every two days (which in itself represented a metastasis), and all I could do was wait the two weeks for my operation.

But yeah, that trust revealed to me, yet again, that there is a God up there, and He is watching over us - because I slept like a baby through it all. It is pretty difficult for me to worry about most things anymore, because they just can't compare to that...

In the end, I became convinced that what we need to do is *choose* life, if we want to live. Depression, for example, involves, among other things, making lesser or greater choices in the direction of not living.

So far, the effect of my choice has been for me to have a disease-free nearly five years. I feel that I've learned what I needed to from cancer, and have moved on to other challenges. Indeed, I have made great headway on those problems I mentioned before which previously looked unsolvable.

So, I'd have to say I am much happier, much less worried, have much more will to live, and have gained wisdom from my situation. In short, cancer is one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Answer 3

My father has lung cancer and I can't see much good in it, EXCEPT that it has drawn my family closer and has made us put aside silly arguments and differences.

I'm glad you have to consider cancer in theory only.

Answer 4

of cos it is bad as it might cause death. it is a very frightening thing it make people suffer i hope that there will be a cure/prevention for cancer

Answer 5

The only good thing i can see with it is that it makes you change your way of life. You begin to realize just how precious life reallyis and how much you treasure it!

Answer 6

People who suffer of something like that become stronger (in the mind) in the long run.