This is the thread where we curse cancer.

To Cancer: Fuck you, you fucking fuck! May you spontaneously combust and your genes die out!

But a father still lost a daughter, two sisters lost a third sister, and a husband lost a wife before she even had a chance to become a mother. It happened 18 months ago but it doesn't go away - still dominates my entire life.

Colin, it stinks and it stinks and it stinks. You know I know how it feels, you've read CoM, you've seen the M&L threads here - I will try and email you if I can find a moment. Or just email me. Rant away as voraciously as you want. It's what needs to be done.

(I just re-read my ILE posts abt Laura's illness - my writing looks so damned clinical, so matter-of-fact. It belies what was going on inside me)

After about five years in remission I stopped going for yearly inpatient week-long batteries of tests. After about 10 years I stopped going for outpatient one-day batteries of tests. You're considered in remission until you've been free of cancer for 20 or 25 years. I don't worry about it coming back, but I don't allow myself overexposure to sun in high summer.

My mum has had it twice over the last 10 years but knock on wood will remain in remission.

Troubling is how you've said, it's herditary and mh, I only have one brother, who's always been able to skip the illness in our family ( only I inherited my father's phlegmatic temperament - we get colds too often! - apparently). But I'm ready, after all those scientific peopole should be doing something about this cancer thing by 2040, hopefully!!

But yeah, cancer. Fuck you, you miserable bastard. And to those of you who have also been negatively affected by this terrible thing, my sympathies, condolences, well wishes, admiration, etc.

its funny because i never get the flu and barely get colds, but i get cancer twice by the time i am 21.

i dont worry though.

ok, well, the doc says he is 99 percent sure of cancer again, so i think that he knows what he is talking about.

Very sorry to hear this news Todd!!

Meanwhile, some happy news, actually -- especially since it is very likely I'll get prostate cancer at some point in the future due to family history, as noted way above -- a specific prostate cancer gene has been identified, which will improve testing and early detection by leaps and bounds.

that really sucks!

FUCK CANCER!

sorry onimo, that's how a few of my mom's brothers went.

on the bright side, my new steroids came on time in the mail, just in time for beach season.

Kick some sand in cancer's face.

My friend's tumour is contained within the prostate and hasn't spread lymph-ward, so he's having an operation some time in the next month. This is going at a clip on the NHS. Already making jokes about going off half-cocked, so prognosis must be OK.

Lost a uncle (not super-close, lived in Germany) to lung cancer a couple of weeks ago. Heavy smoker. I remember him most from how he looked in the 70s: what happens when the man on the Mastermind game box settles down to a life of German entrepreneurship. Would have liked to met him as an adult.

This July I am once again participating in the Pan Ohio Hope Ride for the American Cancer Society. It's a 4-day bicycle ride from Cleveland to Cincinnati (328 miles) to raise money for the ACS Hope Lodges in those cities. If you aren't familiar with the Hope Lodges, they provide free lodging and support for cancer patients seeking treatment far from home. The Cleveland lodge hosts up to 31 patients, most seeking treatment at the world-class Cleveland Clinic or Case Western Reserve University Hospitals. The Cincinnati lodge hosts up to 22 patients. These places are a real blessing - when my dad was being treated for throat cancer in Baltimore, he stayed at the Baltimore Hope Lodge and saved himself a daily 100 mile round trip.

If you feel compelled to give, you can do so at http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=31631118&fr_id=61578&pg=personal . Donations go to the Hope Lodges right away, so anything you give helps cancer patients today.

geez guys :/

a friend of mine, who just turned 40, was diagnosed with what appears to be aggressive cervical cancer. she's been documenting her daily doctor's visits, posting her biopsy results, etc. on facebook, and she's handling everything with impressive coolness so far. all the same, motherfuck a goddamn cancer.

― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:31 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this friend now has about a week and a half left, optimistically.

fuck you cancer fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nearly a year and a half later from this last update: she's managed to hang on for awhile, well past that initial prognosis, but i was just informed by her boyfriend that she's now finally nearing the end - she's mostly unconscious and very weak

i hate cancer i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it

Nothing more useful to add, but man, fuck cancer.

seconded

thirded

fuck fuck fuck it

So sorry donna rouge. Hugs and strength to you, what a horrible thing.

Fuck you, cancer.

So sorry, Donna. Two of my friends are deep in the shit with this right now, and it makes me so angry.

I've been seriously entertaining the idea of cutting my very/too-long hair back to bob length, and donating the resultant 18 inches of cuttings to one of those charities that makes chemo wigs. Whoever gets it won't be forced to inappropriately resemble Carol Channing, as I did when I showed up to my first day of school having to wear one myself.

My favorite coworker. It's everywhere. She's a year younger than me, has three kids, got married last month.

Fuck cancer.

Oh Jesus, sorry to hear that, Kate.

My 8 year old second cousin was diagnosed with DIPG in January. Things have gotten really bad really quickly recently.

I am glad I got to meet her this summer, and that she and her family had a good time visiting New York. I am glad she got to see her baby cousins that were born last month.

I'm so sorry :(

Argh that's terrible - best wishes tr

Dang. So sorry to hear.

And now she's gone.

i'm so sorry

oh fuck, tokyo rosemary, that's awful.

a close friend of mine has had cancer twice, and he's gotten better, though his chronic health probs have progressively gotten worse over time. but he's just himself, he gets out of the hosp and shrugs it off, he's just my friend. last time he had chemo, he still visited me (i'm chronically ill and don't get around well myself)

recently, we were joking about his liver and how if it turned out the biopsy said he had cancer again, he'd totally ace the disability re-evaluation! silver lining! i was worried, but he's always gotten better. and he's always so zen about it.

this time he won't get better. it's slow, he'll be around for a while, i hope, fuck i hope, but this scares the shit out of me. he's my oldest friend, he was my bf a decade ago, he is an amazing dear friend and i don't know how to even cope. i knew he was going to get sicker, and not be around as long as most--but i figured he'd get an organ transplant, have various other probs, and just keep going, the way he does.

he emailed me about all this, which was a good choice, because i've been sobbing and cursing ever since.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/health/harnessing-the-immune-system-to-fight-cancer.html

My gorgeous cousin, who is more like my sister than my actual sister, has a diagnosis of oestrogen-positive stage 4 breast cancer which is already setting up shop in her liver and maybe her pelvis. We’ll know more in two weeks. As far as the docs know, it’s treatable but not curable, so I’m hoping her boys (3 on Monday, and 7) get a few years. She is worried the younger one won’t remember her when he’s an adult. She is 43.

Fuck this fucking disease for the pain it has brought to me and my family, and fuck the guilt I am feeling for surviving it in my own childhood, just so I can live a life where all I can do is watch it pick off the people I love, one by one.

<3 suzy

That’s lousy, Suzy, much love to you and yours.

I’m on a bus from LA to San Diego and the truck next to me has a “FUCK CANCER” sticker in the back window.