We were sitting at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital’s consulting clinic in Karachi. My sister who was diagnosed with malignant tumor wanted a second opinion and treatment. It was impressive not the waiting area but the banners and pana-flexes around displaying the success stories of Shaukat Khanum hospital. Pictures of patients who were cured by the experts and details of facilities available at one and only cancer hospital of Pakistan.

After sudden diagnoses of cancer to my younger sister, needless to mention that we spoke with, discussed and contacted every doctor we knew or we didn’t know. Talked to family, friends or neighbors studying medicine at Ziauddin to Agha Khan and now at Shaukat Khanum. In search of a miracle though right from the physical examination to the biopsy report of the breast lump, was declared as the malignant one. This was indeed a nightmare for the family and a huge shock for the 28 yrs old newly married girl.

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Cancer is a living organism capable of its own thought. It grows in a certain kind of environment toxic, to be precise. There is a possibility of cancer regression/ disappearance when toxicity is eliminated.

This is true both for “real” and metaphorical cancers.

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.

Here’s what NY Times writes about it:

NY Times Report

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