They say that one in three people get cancer today and that the rate will soon rise to one in two. Not only is this grim statistic a consequence of life in advanced civilisation, but a measure of success in living longer because, if you really live long enough, you will succumb to the disease. It is caused by a mistake in genetic typing (to put it glibly) – or entropy (to phrase it cosmically). Opposite attitudes towards the nemesis are healthy, laughter and serious engagement. Cancer has been around as long as has life, and it is a form of rogue life we have to take on as both friend and foe: with respect and, in the future perhaps with cyberwarfare. One of many primary therapies on the horizon is to outsmart it with cyber-attacks, just when it is vulnerable. The secondary therapies, or self-help programmes one also needs to survive, are what we offer at Maggie’s, the cancer caring centres my late wife Maggie and I co-founded in 1995...[+]