“My doom has come upon me; let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” — Hector of Troy, The Iliad. So go the last words of the warrior of the great warrior Hector of Troy upon facing his own mortality, according to Homer in The Iliad. Is there no greater doom in the modern world than a diagnosis of cancer? Cancer, along with cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases compo