Cancer



Cancer is known as the silent killer.

It changes cells to start maliciously multiplying

to spread and kill other cells.

There are so many types of cancer,

        most remain undetected.

        By the time the symptoms show, depending

        on the cancer it could be too late.

        The treatment is often times as bad as the cancer.

        Chemotherapy and radiation while killing the cancer,

        destroy other cells and lower your immunity.

        Maybe someday someone will come up with

        a vaccine against cancer.

About this poem

I'm a cancer survivor- gall bladder cancer.

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Submitted by ronniefox on June 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A B X A X B X A A X X A
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 525
Words 80
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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