https://paulnystrom.com/tags/radiation/Recent content in Radiation on Paul NystromHugoen-usFri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/cancer-as-a-metabolic-disease/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/cancer-as-a-metabolic-disease/<p>If cancer is only a genetic disease, as we’ve often been told, then patients have no agency. What good does it do to take control of your life? Why fight?</p> <p>Fighting is what makes us human: enduring hardship, enduring suffering, and having the agency to say, “I will not die today.” It’s a cheesy line from a long-lost Leonardo DiCaprio movie set on a deserted island, where he’s telling a tall tale about facing a shark. (It turns out it was just a baby shark.) But the point remains.</p>