Former President Jimmy Carter's cancer is gone.

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The average person thinks that problems are simple. Cancer is not simple. First it is a generic term for a wide variety of diseases. These diseases have different origins, different locations, different treatments, and different prognoses. We've made progress in some types of cancer... Testicular cancer was a death sentence once. Twenty percent of men with testicular cancer still secumb to the disease. But the treatment is radically different and successful since the clinical trials in the 70's.

Yes, cancer can be gone... But it is likely to return. This is what the average person doesn't understand. Each cancer patient knows that their next scan may find the recurrence. We live with this possibility. The average person thinks we are cured. We had it, now it is gone.

I hope President Carter lives a long, wonderful life. He has been an amazing man, an example at a time when we really need an example of graciousness.

If you are battling cancer, I hope you become and stay NED (No Evidence of Disease).

If you are an average person, I hope you allow problems to be complex, and challenging. Because people are complex and challenging... and that's where all our problems start.