Over the last six months I’ve diagnosed more cancer than in the previous five years. In one instance, a brother and sister, both in their 70s, were diagnosed with lung cancer within days of one another. Both were smokers (despite my frequent admonitions to quit) and both seemed unsurprised with the diagnosis. A third sister was just diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer and then the youngest sister, a diabetic, ended up in the CCU with a heart attack.