When my mother began to vomit over and over, kept losing her appetite, and even when I realized that she had a dramatic weight loss, I never expected her to suffer from cancer. As far as I and my family knew, she had never had any serious illness before. Unfortunately, this time has to be an exception. Despite of her unblemished medical record, it did happen to her for real that she was suffered from a heart cancer. Nobody would expect that to happen to anyone, but as a matter of fact it could happen unexpectedly to anybody. Many times the people around the victim are as shocked and unprepared to deal with it, that they cannot give their best support when their beloved one needed them the most. When cancer attacks the people we know, we should be ready to help them to fight and to give out all of our amulets to win the battle against it.

Just like in any other battle, if we want to win the battle against cancer, we need to win the psychological combat at first, before we move into the physical combat. As no one would ever hope anything bad to be happened to himself, knowing the fact of having cancer for the first time would mostly become a hard time. I remember how my mother used to have nightmares of meeting family relatives who had already passed away, early after she knew that she had cancer. It seemed that she always carried her fear, worry, and hopelessness for the cancer risk even to her sleep. In that such an emotionally draining time, moral support is needed the most. We should help them to develop positive thinking, which can be done through many kinds of way. We can use religious approach to build up their confidence or encourage them to take medication and tell them how medical treatment has much developed so that to recover from cancer is no more impossible.

After dealing with the psychological problem, we should help them to be physically prepared before sending them right into the battlefield. In this case, we should help them to maintain their physical endurance by making sure that they get enough nutrition for their body. We should serve them with foods which contain many kinds of nutrition needed by their body, from carbohydrate, protein, to many kinds of vitamin. However, the problem often occurs here is that cancer victims often have problem with vomiting. Therefore, besides of giving the regular foods, we can also add healthy juices of fruits or green bean on their menu. When their digestion refuses to accept the hard foods, they would at least have these healthy liquids to keep their body strong.

With enough mental and physical provisions, one last thing they need before winning the battle is the medication support. This is the stage where they have to meet the medical treatment. On this final stage, radiation, surgery, or chemotherapy is needed to beat the cancer. Therefore, we need to support them to take the best medication possible. It would mostly take a high cost of money, so that we need to be financially prepared for it. However, no matter how much money it takes, it would always be worth-taking, since a life worth much more than materials. During this most determining stage, our assistance would also become very important. While their hands are not free from infusions, they need us to be their hands, to take care of their needs until they have recovered.

Cancer is not an easy disease to cope with. Therefore, when there is somebody around us suffers from it, the battle against the disease would not only be his, but ours.  We should show our love by giving mental, physical, and medication supports they need to defeat the cancer disease.