Cancer-all types

To talk about yourself and experiences with cancer,
my step dad has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and i would like to hear about other peoples experiences.

let it off your chest, and inform others on how to deal with it.

please show respect

My boyfriend's brother went through cancer and by the time he was diagnosed they said it could not get worse than the level he was at. The thing is, my boyfriend's brother had a good additude and said that you had to laugh about it. He's in remission and has been for about I think two years or nearly with me thinking that the way that he didn't let it depress him might have helped even a tiny bit.

One of my best friends died of luekemia last year, it was the strangest thing that has ever happened to me. because even now, i can't really believe it. her dying just feels like a dream that i've already forgotten, as if she never even existed.

and then another friends' dog died of cancer, now that is all to easy for me to believe. i don't know why but thinking of the dog dying makes me cry, and thinking of my friend doesn't..... does anyone know why this might be?

My dad lost a third of his lung to cancer last year. He went through chemo, and the doctors assured us that he would be fine. They told us they got 99.99% of it becuase they cant say they got 100%. Well a month ago my dad started having prolbems talking and we thought he'd had a stroke. We took him to the ER to get tests done, and it turns out that he now has Brain cancer. What his doctors failed to tell us was that lung cancer can come back and it only attacks 3 parts of you body, you brain, your lung and your bones. They also failed to test these areas, and to tell us that cancer cells were found in his blood stream. Also they never mentioned that chemo does not enter the brain.

They only thing i can say is that, my dad has undergone surgery, chemo and radation, with more radiation to come. And it could have been some what avoided if the doctors had done their job. So my advice for any one, is to ask questions, all the time, any time, repeat questions and ask frequently if there is anything they could ahve "forgotten to mention". When my mom asked my dads doctor why we were not told so much, his only reply was that "we try to tell every paitent everything, but things do get over looked, and in this case somthing that could have been cought earlier, wasn't because of it. But in the medical feild things are bound to be left out." He also went on to tell us that it wasn't a big deal becasue we cought it before it had any permanit damage....but if this thing ends up killing my dad, i want that doctor to look me (his daught) in the eyes, and tell me that stuff gets forgotten, and if he ends up lossing his memory, and he cant remember me, i want the fricken doctor to look me in the eyes and tell me that its not a "big Deal"

sry if i sound hostile, but its a very sore subject.
<3 Bianca

My dad died in '03 from cancer.
My grandma died this year from it.

Wow u all have such amazing stories...
i think they caught it early..but the problm is...he is in the remand centre...and if he gets sent to jail, its basically a death sentence..
because. u have to have been at the jail for 24months b4 u can see a specialist... of any kind....
so im just worried. if that happens..it will get worse obviously, with nothing to help him

My uncle had lung cancer and he found out about 6 months before he died from it. but its okay because he is in a much better place because he is not suffering any longer.

If you read john trudeau's 'natural cures they dont want you to know about'
it will give you a NATURAL cure to cancer. somethign about flaxseed or something, and other crap.
it's so interesting. go buy it, read it, and cure cancer.
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If a natural cure is avalable.... why be spending billions on "the" cure for cancer

but ty..and i will hav a look:)