The Metaphor of Cancer

If cancer is seen by society as a battle that someone's going through, then in a good fight, what we respect as a culture is someone who faces this battle and acts like a warrior. But of course, cancer isn't a battle and you're not a warrior fighting against it. What you need to do is just sit back and allow the doctors to use your body to wage war against this cancerous alien that's trying to take over with their radiation weapons.