Pleasant to hear from someone with your background, Richard!

If there are two great environments where one can acquire a deep understanding of sleep deprivation and observe the effects, it's from within the military and working at sea. (IMHO)

I've read a few books on sleep psychophysiology, and many link lack of sleep to cancer.

How I see it, perhaps more due to an indirect effect of chronically lowering your immune system...

(Perhaps you've read earlier posts of mine) Around the age of 12 I was diagnosed with AML (leukemia) over a period of two years I recovered twice from it.

Ever since I was trying to find out: "How?"

The closest I came was when I started to solve my deeply integrated sleep problem. Here often I got to the understanding of how extremely poor sleep was linked to cancer.

Today, I think there's something more at play. our thoughts have a superior power over our state of being. I can't explain it fully, but we are equipped with a fabulous tool which is your mind.

I believe as Joe Dispenza refers to it that as we make ourselves sick, we can also heal ourselves.

life has no guarantees, that's true. But also understand that you hold the mental key to better.

I don't like to take any credit from Doctors who devote their lives to heal people. Yet, without the mental power to be willing to heal, medications will only help you so far...

From what I absorb, you hold that great power within to overcome such a disease even at your age.

Richard, you might want to read this article:

https://medium.com/illumination/whats-important-to-know-about-manifestation-and-healing-the-bone-hard-reality-c7d29ce4f93b

Thanks, man, keep well!