Cancer in SC?

Last week there was a story on CNN, I think, about how many of the candidates have had to deal with cancer. Either being survivors themselves - Guiliani, Thompson, McCain - or having close family members - Elizabeth Edwards and Bill Clinton's mother.

But then on the screen flashed the following:

1 in 3 men in SC has cancer
1 in 4 women in SC has cancer.

One reason was that it has a high percentage of smokers. But another was that many do not have access to adequate health care that will identify and treat cancerous growth early.

Has any of our candidates touched on this?

during last night's debate. It's probably an important issue to them there, as it is elsewhere in the country.

and the Savannah River nuclear plant that regularly discharges waste into the air and water.

Here in Charleston we used to have a nitrate plant that would put so much crap into the air that breathing it would make you want to barf and turn the air orange. It finally blew up but the years of that had to do a number on a lot of people.

And then there's the incestuous medical community. If you have a doctor but want to change, you'll have to say you have none. Few doctors will accept a patient who says they already have one, no matter what your reason for wanting to change. You'll also have trouble finding a doctor if you say you have no insurance.

We've got 5 or 6 hospitals and the medical university and the health care here in Charleston still sucks big time.