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re: It feels like cancer is becoming a younger disease
Posted on 4/2/14 at 6:05 pm to johnnyrocket
Posted on 4/2/14 at 6:05 pm to johnnyrocket
I was over 60 days inpatient on the Lymphoma floor at Emory. I think I was the youngest during that time.
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Posted on 4/2/14 at 6:07 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
A lot of young women get breast cancer. It can run in the family and/or be hormone related. Usually it is more aggressive when you are younger. Sorry
Posted on 4/2/14 at 6:12 pm to skidmark
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Girls are hitting puberty earlier due to
growth hormones in meat.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 6:13 pm to RedRifle
Being in the cancer diagnostic medical sales field is a double edges sword. I love knowing I am helping get the most advanced detection equipment out there to help patients but it also is so sad going face to face with a horrible disease every day.
My mom died of breast cancer a few years back.
I could bore you with the advances we are making, but the good news is too late for too many people.
My mom died of breast cancer a few years back.
I could bore you with the advances we are making, but the good news is too late for too many people.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:15 pm to flyAU
I'll never understand how we can put a man on the moon some 45 years ago but cannot come up with more cures for this dreaded disease. It makes you wonder just what is actually being done with all the money that is spent on cancer research! 
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:42 pm to stampman
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I'll never understand how we can put a man on the moon some 45 years ago but cannot come up with more cures for this dreaded disease. It makes you wonder just what is actually being done with all the money that is spent on cancer research!
There are a lot of really, really promising things on the horizon.
And, FWIW, treatments have come a very long way
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:29 pm to stampman
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I'll never understand how we can put a man on the moon some 45 years ago but cannot come up with more cures for this dreaded disease. It makes you wonder just what is actually being done with all the money that is spent on cancer research!
I often question this as well. The only thing they got right on my best friend's diagnosis and treatment last year was his life expectancy after the terminal diagnosis. The rest of it was a complete calamity of shite in many respects.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:33 pm to stampman
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I'll never understand how we can put a man on the moon some 45 years ago but cannot come up with more cures for this dreaded disease. It makes you wonder just what is actually being done with all the money that is spent on cancer research!
Cancer is not just one disease. It has countless different forms for every body part which can be specific to that person. It's just very complex.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:36 pm to RedRifle
Friend of a friend is 33 with ovarian cancer. 2 kids and the doctors told her that she only has a few months. Horrible. I can't imagine.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:40 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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Friend of a friend is 33 with ovarian cancer. 2 kids and the doctors told her that she only has a few months. Horrible. I can't imagine.
It isn't fair and happens to the best people everyday. Cancer shows no favoritism whatsoever.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:42 pm to RedRifle
I have a close friend that got colon cancer last year when he was only 35. I agree that is does seem to be afflicting people at an earlier age and I fear I will probably die from it one day.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:43 pm to 4LSU2
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It isn't fair and happens to the best people everyday. Cancer shows no favoritism whatsoever.
It so fricked up. I lost my dog to it, he was only 7, 2 years ago. I fricking hate cancer.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:43 pm to 4LSU2
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It isn't fair and happens to the best people everyday. Cancer shows no favoritism whatsoever.
That's why it's so scary. Even finding out that my dad had a slow-growing, relatively benign carcinoid tumor in his appendix when it was taken out was still a little worrying, but he's fine now.
But seriously, frick cancer.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:49 pm to Jet12
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But seriously, frick cancer.
Troof!!!!!
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:51 pm to RedRifle
This thread is scary. I worry about this daily, especially now being a mother. I often wonder if it is the exposure to more wireless technologies and microwaves. Hell, I even worry that our video monitors are bad for us sometimes.
I agree that there is too much crap in our foods.
I also worry that we expose our bodies to too much synthetic drugs (over the counter and prescription) that we simply don't need. I wonder if that plays a role in cancer causing agents.
I did read once that hormone imbalance can play a role in cancer
I worry way too much about it, but its hard for me not to with two small kiddos. I love them too much and also I don't want them growing up without a parent.
I agree that there is too much crap in our foods.
I also worry that we expose our bodies to too much synthetic drugs (over the counter and prescription) that we simply don't need. I wonder if that plays a role in cancer causing agents.
I did read once that hormone imbalance can play a role in cancer
I worry way too much about it, but its hard for me not to with two small kiddos. I love them too much and also I don't want them growing up without a parent.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:52 pm to lsuwontonwrap
I count myself lucky.
I never accepted the death sentence that they gave me years ago.
I kept pushing and got into MD Anderson and I was lucky to have one of the worlds best doctors for my type of cancer treat me.
Now I am sure my treatment is now outdated, but back then it was new used in Europe. Biggest obstacle was getting the FDA to approve the drugs to be used in the US. It is hard to sit in that bed waiting for a proven drug in Europe, but you cannot have it due to the FDA does not have enough testing on it.
Great news is when I hear of the treatment I went through is now modified and used to treat people locally.
It makes me feel good like I helped the next guy get better treatment.
If I died tonight I would die knowing I helped be apart of helping others by not accepting we cannot help you and you probably will die.
I never accepted the death sentence that they gave me years ago.
I kept pushing and got into MD Anderson and I was lucky to have one of the worlds best doctors for my type of cancer treat me.
Now I am sure my treatment is now outdated, but back then it was new used in Europe. Biggest obstacle was getting the FDA to approve the drugs to be used in the US. It is hard to sit in that bed waiting for a proven drug in Europe, but you cannot have it due to the FDA does not have enough testing on it.
Great news is when I hear of the treatment I went through is now modified and used to treat people locally.
It makes me feel good like I helped the next guy get better treatment.
If I died tonight I would die knowing I helped be apart of helping others by not accepting we cannot help you and you probably will die.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 8:55 pm
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:52 pm to CorkSoaker
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CorkSoaker
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being a mother.
I never knew you were a chick but I feel better about your username now!
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:55 pm to johnnyrocket
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At this point I can say I lived my life and proud I pushed to not just accept death without a fight.
Good for you!
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:58 pm to lsu480
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I never knew you were a chick but I feel better about your username now!
It's her own arse in her avatar as well.
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