Farrah Fawcett: A Symbol of Hope for the War on Cancer
Farrah Fawcett’s family and friends will ceremoniously celebrate her life and lay her to rest tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon. For many, her passing will symbolize the hopelessness of cancer. They will be reminded that the most popular celebrity icons are no different from the anonymous common victims who are among over 1500 dying daily from the disease. For others, though, her death is a symbol of hope. Because her life and death touched so many, millions more are thinking about cancer. Regardless of where those thoughts take us, they prohibit us from ignoring the problem. People throughout this nation and around the world have their minds tuned to the subject of cancer a little more than before due to Farrah Fawcett. That is a positive, not a negative.
If we have paid attention to her message, we understand better what cancer victims experience. We see more clearly the frustration of exclusive conventional treatment when it it not doing the job. We can identify more closely with the inconvenience and unaffordability of obtaining complementary treatment to enhance what is commonly available. We empathize with her confusion due to insufficient and often conflicting information on valid and proven therapies that are available but not in the mainstream of conventional medicine. We are encouraged by the complementary treatment she received in Germany that was closely coordinated with her doctors in the U.S., but perplexed by why it wasn’t available here.
The hope that Farrah gave us that few other cancer victims could has to do with awareness. The more we know about complementary therapy practiced by experienced and dedicated integrative oncologists, the closer we come to a new strategy for the war on cancer. Her suffering and death raises our cognizance level and give us another reason to keep up the fight. I urge you to let the life and death of Farrah Fawcett represent the lives and deaths of millions of others and pledge now to get involved in the support of a new paradigm in cancer treatment. A place to begin is at http://cancerchoices.org. Then launch your personal strategy from there.