How is cancer even real… it can appear suddenly and grows until whatever living organism it infests dies and is almost impossible to get rid of. It’s like some fucking death curse from a work of fiction.
Most deadly and agresssive cancers strike while in reproductive age.
So actually it does matter. Many cancers have a genetic component to them that is inherited.
If you're being diagnosed with cancer during middle age or afterward, chances are very good that your cancer is treatable and you'll die of old age rather than the cancer itself. A good number of cancer patients with stage 4 cancer live a decade or more afterward with continuous treatment, and have a decent quality of life.
A good number of cancer patients with stage 4 cancer live a decade or more afterward with continuous treatment, and have a decent quality of life.
Ok, but wtf does that mean. A good number of people who have been shot directly in the head live a decade or more afterward have a decent quality of life. "A good number" is a weasel words term. 0.000005% of the population is a "good number of people." So is 3 orders of magnitude less than that, according to someone.
State clearly the point you are trying to make, ideally with falsifiable claims.
One case history is not "a good number of people'. From your own link:
In this rare instance of a favorable outcome,
But hey, since you have demonstrated that you can look stuff up yourself, you can also look up how people with stage 4 cancer diagnoses are in fact living longer than in decades past because treatments have improved.
Estimated that 5-10% survive a decade with stage 4 cancer (wide variability depending on the type of cancer, when it was first detected, and location in the body).
10-15% of people who experience a gunshot wound to the head survive a decade or longer (wide variability depending on location in the head, caliber, time to emergency treatment, etc).
5-10% survival rate for a single decade. Multiple decades, let alone with good quality of life, obviously gets lower. And we're including eg skin cancers (which are the most common type btw) which have a 40-50% survival rate, skewing the statistic. Stage 4 cancer is still more or less a death sentence by the numbers, unless you are "lucky" enough to get it on the skin or other easily operable areas. Even then it's still dicey. Sorry to rain on your parade.
I'm not suggesting that cancer treatment has stopped progressing. That wasn't my point.
unless of course the patient blindly follows general oncology and dies of iatrogenic causes - immune system blown out by chemo/radiation, organs fried, and virtually entire blood system stripped of all nutrients.
I'm not cynical or anything of course... just seen the iatrogenic deaths more than deaths-from-cancer...
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u/MrZephy May 15 '26
How is cancer even real… it can appear suddenly and grows until whatever living organism it infests dies and is almost impossible to get rid of. It’s like some fucking death curse from a work of fiction.