― Vic (Vic), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
My mum has had it twice over the last 10 years but knock on wood will remain in remission.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
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!!
― Vic (Vic), Friday, 7 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 8 February 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 8 February 2003 04:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 9 February 2003 13:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― xxx, Sunday, 28 December 2003 13:10 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 28 December 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 March 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 March 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
ok, well, the doc says he is 99 percent sure of cancer again, so i think that he knows what he is talking about.
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
Very sorry to hear this news Todd!!
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm (kephm), Sunday, 8 May 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
that really sucks!
FUCK CANCER!
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 May 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scott Martin, Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― svend (svend), Saturday, 3 June 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 3 June 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 3 June 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 3 June 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
-- todd swiss (plastiqmusi...), March 26th, 2004.
What happened to this guy?
― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 3 June 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
well, i have had cancer twice (lymphoma)
the first time i got radiation and the second time they used this new biotherapy thing that uses mice cells that attach to the cancer cell receptors and kill them.
i have been healthy and active both times i was diagnosed. the best thing is to just remain positive i guess. looking back, i guess i was kind of a hard ass because it sucked and i was relatively calm and regular.
my advice is if you feel lumps, get them checked out.
-- todd swiss (will.the.hills.march.of...), December 23rd, 2004.
...and I think I've seen him on aim since; any chicago ilxers seen him lately?
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/87/99477.htm
― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Sunday, 4 June 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― camp event (suzy), Thursday, 2 April 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
My favorite coworker. It's everywhere. She's a year younger than me, has three kids, got married last month.
Fuck cancer.
― kate78, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
Oh Jesus, sorry to hear that, Kate.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
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.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm so sorry :(
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
Argh that's terrible - best wishes tr
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 December 2015 09:20 (eight years ago) link
Dang. So sorry to hear.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
And now she's gone.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 11 December 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
i'm so sorry
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 December 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― JuliaA, Friday, 11 December 2015 06:58 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/health/harnessing-the-immune-system-to-fight-cancer.html
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
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.
― suzy, Friday, 30 March 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
<3 suzy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
That’s lousy, Suzy, much love to you and yours.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 March 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link