Zappin' Cancer

I love this:

A 9-year-old kid in Marin County, California has leukemia. His social worker (yay, social workers!) at UCSF Medical Center calls the Make-a-Wish Foundation on his behalf, and the foundation agrees to grant the kid a wish. What the kid wants more than anything else is to design a video game for other cancer-fighting kids, where the protagonist battles cancer cells and those nasty treatment side effects. A software engineer from LucasArts volunteers his time to collaborate with the kid and together they create a kick-butt computer game.

Ben's Game is available for free download from the Make-a-Wish Foundations' Web site. What I'd love to see is a version of the game for grownups--perhaps a more graphic first-person shooter where you can mow down tumors with an AK-47. Doctors say a positive outlook is an important part of cancer treatment, and some even advise visualizing the destruction of cancer cells as part of that approach. Take that, you dang mutating cells!