Shooting down cancer

摘要

Every age is afraid of plagues. For the most part, such plagues have been infections. The rich world, though, has brought infectious disease under control and, aids aside, the memory dims with every generation. Instead, the fear of disease has transferred itself to cancer. How to prevent it, and how to treat it if prevention has failed, fills the health pages of the newspapers. How this or that celebrity won or lost his or her battle with it seems to fill much of the rest.