friend and co worker dying of cancer

Tough to take, to say the least. Lost one of my cousins, a hell of a nice guy at 26, with a young wife and two little girls. His cousin, a sister's son, barely made it past his 18th birthday. He fought leukemia all his short life. Lost a sister of mine to brain cancer in her early 50s. Other women in our extended family have had various bouts with breast cancer, none fatal so far as that goes.

My condolences. Too bad we can afford to go to war, we can go to space, but we can't find a cure for ailments like these.