ABSTRACT
Cancer is often referred to as the ‘illness of modern civilization,’ referring to the toxicity of our environment, physical and mental. But cancer may also be an illness of our century in defying science’s efforts to control decay, suffering, the body, and death. For the body in cancer is not the famous docile one – to the contrary. It is the body asserting itself, out of control of its ‘owners’ and ‘curers,’ on its own, producing its own monsters that science and medicine are called upon to control.
