There's a thesis or two on fear to be developed. Cancer has been a fear-ful subject for so long. I had a friend who, fearing the cervical cancer that killed her mother, did nothing about her significant pains and aches (until her friends found out what she was doing, and forced her to a specialist as her GP appeared to prefer her diagnoses!) and then of course it was too late to do anything useful. Heart disease and respiratory illnesses kill more world wide but don't seem to trigger the same fear or denial. No-one wants a cancer diagnosis but maybe a fighting chance is worth getting in time.
