That's awesome that chemo is free there. With some types, it can be cured most of the time obviously, I mean skin cancer isn't very dangerous anymore, and stuff like that is a tossup but depends on the time and aggressiveness of the cancer. With pancreatic cancer, if they find it, regardless of when, you have about a 5% chance you'll live more than 5 years from that date. I wrote my senior paper on this, I have a huge background of it now, I'm writing a book about cancer and the funding problems that arrise from the many varieties... but long story short, 34,000 people a year in the US get diagnosed with PanCan, and about 33,500 die from it. That's in the #1 country on earth when it comes to cancer treatment. I don't mean to hijack this thread since this doesn't relate to Karl directly, but simply put, at some point many cancer victims have to begin to take faith and realize that the odds are against them, and to make the best of it.