7% - 517,000

9% - 788,000

9% -774,000

9% - 754,000

20% - 1,690,000

46% - 3,923,000

Remember these numbers.

 

Dear Cancer,

Does any of this make you happy?

Do you get off on hurting the innocent?

Well do you?

 

Per every 100,000 people there are 901.1 new cases,

It's ridiculous!

Those are fathers, mothers, brother and sisters you're hurting

And more often than not, you take them away.

 

Every hour eight people die from cancer

That's one person every seven and a half minutes.

117,800 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer.

75,000 of those Canadians will die.

That's not right.

 

There are 36,290,000 people in Canada

1 in 2 people will be diagnosed

Meaning 117,800 people have cancer

1 in 4 dies from it.

These stats are ridiculously high.

 

But you don't care

You like seeing them suffer

 

You like watching that little girl cry as she watches her mother’s hair fall out

For the second time, leaving her bald

You like hearing that same women cry softly in the bathroom

In the middle of the night trying not to wake her husband and child.

 

You get off on witnessing the doctor

Walk into the room to tell a wife that she lost her husband.

You enjoy watching her look back to her two grand-daughters holding each other

Looking around innocently trying to figure out how to tell them their grandfather

Isn’t coming home with them because he did not walk up.

She's trying to figure out how to tell them

How he will not be there as they grow up.

 

You love to see our hearts rip

Out of our chest like it's attached to a semi-truck.

You love knowing you created all this pain.

Don't you?

 

I have cried and I have lost.

I have felt helpless and scared.

I have been told she had two months, three years ago

I was told he was okay, he died 8 year ago.

 

I've witness the chemo,

I witness the pain,

I witness the transfusions,

And the sickness that comes with them.

I've never felt it but I was there to see it.

 

I've been poked, bruised and tested since the age of 10

"Just to be safe"

I've been through the MRI's

But being claustrophobic was the reason for my panic.

 

I have never witnessed heaven,

But I have witnessed hell

I have a tendency to cuss out a higher power

For all the pain they have caused on my family and many others.

 

I miss my grandfather,

I know you can't bring him back, I'm not naive,

I also hate you for that!

Why did you have to take such an amazing man with your disgusting word?

Why did you do it...?

 

I've never seen a life without this word being thrown around.

17 out of 19 years of my life,

This Godforsaken word has been on our tongues.

For what?

 

My earliest memory is hearing a clipper for the first time,

 

She has on a white plastic chair sat in the middle of a blue tarp

In our Longueuil apartment building yard

Surrounded by friends, family and neighbors

I witness my grandfather shaving my mother’s hair off her head before it fell off.

I was two...

She was 29 when she got her first cancer.

He was just turned 58 the week before he died after cancer number 7,

Leukemia...

 

I have no more tears,

I feel no more pain,

I am numb,

I am everything but alone.

 

The world is a fucked up place

We can agree on that,

But people shouldn't have to suffer for your amusement.

 

7% Breast cancer - 517,000

9% liver cancer- 788,000

9% colorectal cancer -774,000

9% stomach cancer - 754,000

20% lung cancer - 1,690,000

46% other cancers - 3,923,000

Those are the mortality rates worldwide just by cancer...

Sincerely,

The person that hates you the most.