Triangle

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (via Wurttemberg, Germany) - I was going to title this post either “genius” or “hair,” but found both to be too trite. Everybody knows Albert, right? His birthday is tomorrow, March 18. I promise this won’t be boring, but I do want to let you know a few things about this fella that you might not already know. Tidbits, really, but it’s my homage to a humanitarian and storied academic.

• He has a cancer center named for him, and was on one the first to be funded by the NCI.



• He didn’t like haircuts (well, obviously!) and said “Long hair minimizes the need for barbers."



• Was friends with Marie Curie (she shared our desire to rid the world of cancer) and said she was the only person he knew who was uncorrupted by fame.



• He won the Nobel Prize, just like his friend Marie.



• He produced most of his amazing work in his spare time, after his full-time job in a patent office.




• That little triangle symbol above denotes a change, and can apply to mass. (Google: e=mc2 if curious.)



• He said "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Happy birthday, sir. I hope this inspires a few cancer warriors to live their lives today as if everything is a miracle.

Burden

UNITED STATES – “Cancer burden” is described as “A measure of the incidence of cancer within the population and an estimate of the financial, emotional or social impact it creates. The burden of disease is not borne equally by all population groups in the United States.” (National Cancer Institute (NCI))

There are many terms on NCI’s website that are unknown to the majority of people I personally know; and that is a good thing. Only when you or someone you love is diagnosed do you learn things like the true meanings of “life tables” and “SEER registries.”

It will be a wonderful day, worldwide, when this website becomes obsolete.