{"id":1365,"date":"2006-12-14T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2006-12-14T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T02:53:02","slug":"its-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s like that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t strikes me as <a id=\"p1220\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1220\" title=\"A T-Cell attempting an attack on a cancer cell\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/t-cell-attacks-cancer.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"A T-Cell attempting an attack on a cancer cell\" \/><\/a> ironic, that I&#8217;m trying to read up as much about cancer after finding out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1207\">another loved one<\/a> has been diagnosed with the same disease as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=765\">one who succumbed to it a couple of years ago<\/a>.This is so extremely sad, that the only thing I can think of that might cheer up my relatives closer to home, is by making a totally absurd statement, in the style you should be oh-so familiar with by now:\n<\/p>\n<p><h3>Hey! Maybe this thing will outgrow our family!<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, the Wikipedia article on lung cancer is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lung_cancer\">extremely well versed and highly informative<\/a>. The state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cancer\">cancer research<\/a>? It&#8217;s the pits: if I have to believe the numbers in the news there is a greater chance of being killed by a terrorist (that other tumor as others call it) than being outrun by a virus, or, in this case, outgrown by malignant cells. In reality, of course, 7.6 million people died of cancer last year alone. According to my rusty statistics, that&#8217;s  1 out of 870 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/ipc\/www\/popclockworld.html\">world census<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><strong>Update:<\/strong> Wait, just today a study shows that breast cancer rates dropped recently because millions of women stopped or abandoned hormone treatment after a study concluded that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/14\/health\/14cnd-breast.html?ei=5094&#038;en=e2f4216481b14494&#038;hp=&#038;ex=1166158800&#038;partner=homepage&#038;pagewanted=all\">hormones slightly increased breast cancer risks<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It strikes me as ironic, that I&#8217;m trying to read up as much about cancer after finding out that another loved one has been diagnosed with the same disease as the one who succumbed to it a couple of years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}