As someone whose Mauritian island heritage harks back to the sugar cane industry, you would think that sugar would hold a soft spot for me. Actually it does. Or it did until I learnt how closely aligned it was to cancer. In earlier posts (Oxygen and Cancer, So What is Cancer?) I touched on the …
Tag: cancer and the immune system
Waking Up to the Immune System
It took 4 years after I had contracted, dealt with and moved beyond cancer for something to go horribly wrong in my body. Acute pneumonia. There I was together with three hundred odd people at a weekend conference in Malaysia and I’m the one who ends up fighting for my life in ICU 2 days …