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Cancer, Control, and Broken Trust

Cancer entered the room first.

Not as a campaign slogan. Not as another medical headline wrapped in sterile language. Not as an abstraction floating above real families. Cancer came in as the word that stops dinner cold, changes the calendar, drains the account, tests the marriage, sharpens the prayer, and forces people to ask questions they never wanted to ask.

In 2026, the American Cancer Society projects more than 2.1 million new cancer cases in the United States and more than 626,000 cancer deaths. Those are not just numbers. Those are chairs left empty, paychecks stretched thin, children…

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