Following a CDC report and after years of progress, serious researchers are willing to use the word ‘cure’ when talking about cancer’s future.
Cancer survivor, author of “SheNomenal Women” and public speaker Tasha Champion in Lake Elsinore on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. In 2017 Tasha Champion was told she was genetically predisposed to developing breast cancer. Doctors said, her genes suggested the likelihood of her developing the disease was 80%. So she underwent a prophylactic double mastectomy. During that operation, doctors found she already had a cancerous lump.
County-level cancer numbers in the report cover only a five-year window ending in 2022, so it’s tough to track long-term trends. But, locally, those numbers also paint a mostly upbeat picture. People living in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties are all less likely than other Americans to die of cancer, and the cancer death rate in San Bernardino County is within the margin of error for matching the national average.
Cancer survivor Tasha Champion youngest son Denver Champion, 15, was shorter than mom when she had her prophylactic double mastectomy surgery years back but now can carry her in Lake Elsinore on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Steve Bell survived colon cancer when he was 35 and continued on to a healthy life. He holds Bogie in San Clemente on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. He and his wife inherited the dog when his mother-in-law died of pancreatic cancer in March.
Some drugs once used only for patients with advanced cancers have been deemed safe and effective for more people, boosting survivor rates. Biomarker testing – a genetic-based science that can help link specific treatments to specific cancers – has improved mortality numbers even though its widespread use is fairly new. Even some procedures that have been around for decades – surgical removal, for instance – are being used in new ways.
And, critically, while the nation’s cancer death rate has fallen, the rate at which new cancers are diagnosed has been close to flat, declining just 4.7% between 2000 and 2019. That suggests gains in cancer treatment are having a bigger impact than the gains in cancer prevention. For Champion, the onco test was part of a broader story about her family history and her own future. She said her mother, who survived breast cancer in the late 1990s, was found in 2015 to carry the BRHC gene, a discovery that meant Champion and her two sisters might be at much higher risk than average of developing breast cancer. Champion soon took a similar test and was told she had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer, odds similar to what doctors gave to one of her sisters.
But she said the subsequent cancer diagnosis was “more motivation than vindication,” and that the experience had the unexpected side effect of making her more confident. Like Champion, Simpson – armed with a positive cancer forecast and a new, “don’t sweat the small stuff” mindset – is more confident today than she was before cancer. Last year, she and a partner quit their long-running jobs to start a new business selling souvenirs from around the world.
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