I think everyone dies from cancer.

I was spared the "experience" of seeing my uncle die -- he was at home with my aunt, via hospice, and cancer was eating his spinal cord alive and putting him through excruciating pain as it did so. My parents brought me to see him one last time while he was lucid, but then took me home soon after because everyone just knew it he was going to depart soon. My mother stayed with my aunt; my father stayed home with me. I got to talk to my uncle over the phone briefly, then my dad got back on the phone and talked with the family there for a bit, and finally he just fell quiet and said "your uncle's gone now." People do die from other, non-cancerous things -- gravity is not cancer (i.e. "fell off a building"), buses are not cancer (i.e. "hit by a bus"), and bullets are not cancer (i.e. "shot in the groin by your lover's husband"), but generally if something doesn't violently thrash your body there's a good chance cancer will eventually take its shot. Cancer is a weird "disease" -- it's not really a single condition or "thing" that can be cured with a bit of medicine (though some day it might well be) -- it's more of the body's cells suddenly being unable to divide and reproduce correctly. They start spawning broken cells that don't actually *help* anything but still consume resources. Those cells divide and divide and keep burning through the body's supplies until they're gone, and then they turn on the body itself. Heart attacks kill people a lot, too -- our bodies sometimes just can't handle the stress we put on them and some parts fail sooner than others. Viagra can fix that "one" part for a bit, but we're not as good at fixing hearts yet ;)

we ALWAYS have mutations happening, most of them are harmless and don't turn to cancer we are living longer, if heart disease don't get us, cancer probably will if I get that, I figure live the best I can till its over I guess I think sometimes of how it might get me. My PSA is 1.7 now, thats pretty good for my age. Worry when it gets us I figure, not till then.