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Cancer is one of the worlds most illusive and deadly killers. There is no permanent cure, yet. Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are procedures that might result in a permanent effect. Why does it come? Where does it come from? are all questions left to be answered. A close friend of mine contracted cancer, a tumour at the slender age of twelve. Again at sixteen the veracious killer returned. At eighteen years of age when his life was hitting a high, an independent young adult fell to pieces when he received he news of his enemies return. My friend and I knew of each other and our relationship didn’t extent only to the occasional “hi, how are you?” but in the summer of 2001 – 2002 this bond between us took at a drastic turn. We saw each other everyday, spoke to each other, and did activities together; by the end of camp we knew each other better than we knew ourselves. People found it strange that a fifteen-year-old boy (me) and an almost eighteen-year-old man were so close. I had always known about his previous tumours when he was a teenager but I never thought I would experience one with him.
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