The belief that cancer happens for a reason can be an attractive line of thinking—where there’s an effect, there must be a cause. This is what a logical mind tells us, but it’s usually untrue. Even when a patient is found to have lung cancer after decades of smoking, is cancer still the patient’s ‘fault?’ Even if there is a correlation to the choices a person makes in life, cancer is always deeply unfair.
Lisa's reflections on summitting Kilimanjaro and raising over $10,000 for cancer programs and services at LIVESTRONG.
