Is There Just One Cancer?

It's easy to identify with others who share our kind of cancer, but what about the rest?

BY Khevin Barnes

PUBLISHED August 10, 2018

Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com          www.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com

Cancer, by its very nature, is an isolating disease. It's an intimate confrontation between a relentless cellular anomaly and our own bodies. Some people prefer to think of it as a battle or a journey as a way to better identify it. Any way you look at it, the word "cancer" packs a disturbing punch and triggers a good deal of adverse emotion in many people. Around the world, millions of us are shaken by its presence every year. It spares no gender or ethnicity and strikes young and old alike.

As with any human disaster that befalls us, one way we can wrap our heads around something so huge and devastating is by breaking it down into smaller units. We can immediately identify it as a disease that assaults three basic groups men, women and children.
With as many as 200 types of cancer being identified worldwide, it's easy to understand how different factions have developed over the years, each supporting a limited coalition of survivors.

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