In 1974, Dr. Larry Einhorn of Indiana University developed a cure for testicular cancer. Prior to his research, the disease was mostly a death sentence. Now, it’s highly treatable and curable.

42 years. That’s how long this treatment has been in place. That seems like a long time in the world of modern medicine, right? I wasn’t even born 42 years ago. But think about it in terms of the length of time the human race has existed.

How many men died from testicular cancer in the roughly 200,000 years prior to Dr. Einhorn’s research? When you think about it like that, I’M SO LUCKY! The likelihood that I was born and got this disease after 1974 is only .021%, or 1 in 4,761. 

Crazy.