Cancer runs in my family; quite likely it will get me in the end as well. My own experience with other life-threatening illnesses yields the insight that if yo

Cancer runs in my family; quite likely it will get me in the end as well. My own experience with other life-threatening illnesses yields the insight that if you are to survive, it is your mind that will enable you to do so. If you cannot overcome the mental challenge, no amount of medicine will help you. A close friend once rang up the US Olympic Bicycling coach to inquire as to how he might make the team: "Ride 120 miles every day for the next since months. Call me again after that." My friend could ride a lot farther than 120 miles in a day; he really was that good. Even so he did not even try because he was intimidated by the prospect of working so hard for so long.