Cancer's a Funny Thing:
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more chaps, in fact,
Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked . . .
Source: Written while mortally ill with cancer. JBS, (Ronald Clark)
-- J B S Haldane, (Nov 5 1892-1964), Scottish mathematical biologist; He wrote Daedalus; Or, Science And The Future.