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Originally Posted by MarkC1984
When a Sunday paper reported he had been released to spend his final days at home, knew it wasn't going to be long. He'll be much missed. Cancer takes yet another victim. Scientists, instead of telling us how to make the perfect cuppa, how about finding cures for cancer?
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The problem is, Cancer isn't one condition with one cure and one cause. It's hundreds, if not thousands of conditions that all share one or more similarities, and has multiple causes, and multiple potential treatments. What works for one cancer won't work for another.
That's why the Cancer probably has more researchers looking for a cure or treatment than any other condition.
It's not much comfort if you know someone who has died from cancer (believe me, I know this from experience) but cancer treatment has come on in leaps and bounds even in the last 5 years, and from what i've ready, most sufferers have a far better chance of being cured than even a few years ago.
I'm said to see Paul Daniels go. In his heyday, he was funny, but he was also a good magician. It's a shame that none of the mainstream channels seem interested in magic shows now. I think the problem is that while Paul Daniels and other UK magicians were happy sticking to card tricks and making people vanish, the likes of David Copperfield were busy making the Statue of Liberty and Helicopters apparently vanish. The thought they'd have to pay a lot of money to improve on what the Americans were doing is probably what put off the mainstream channels.
Sadly, the nearest I came to seeing Paul Daniels live is when I was taken by my then Girlfriend to see a production of "The Invisible Man" at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley. Martin Daniels (his son) apparently designed the special effects, which were excellent, and made it hard to remember there wasn't an invisible man in the auditorium.