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[PhilRich]

Cancer is claiming so many young lives

Yup, the faces at St Lukes are getting younger every week.
What I want to know is why ther are so many cases cropping up compared to (say) 30 years ago.
Is it because of mobile phone masts?
Is it because of having so many more cars on the road?
Any other suggestions?

Are they? could this be down to modern diagnosis? I am a Cancer survivor, perhaps 30 years ago I would be dead
We have moved on in so many ways, in history people died and were recorded for different reasons

Here Here! I'm another very lucky survivor of the disease & my cancer was considered a certain death sentence only 5 years ago! The word 'Cancer' 20, or even less years ago was spoken in hushed tones & very little was seen or heard of it in the National or Local News or TV. It's a very different story nowadays. The one thing that never changes is the sadness at losing anyone to the various forms of the disease, at whatever age 

[aaronjb]

I am a strong philosophical sort of person but you have to ask the question - what f**k is going on out there.

Pray tell.  As time goes on we will be asking this more and more especially with all the things we are seeing in the news.  especially with what happened to that 4 year old. Sickening or what.

 :-?

Not sure how it's related to the big C .. but I believe sotmh is talking about the four year old girl who got bricked in the face the other day; all because her father asked a bunch of youths to stop kicking a football against his van.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/861354-girl-4-breaks-nose-after-brick-thrown-in-face-by-thugs

[Martian]

Here Here! I'm another very lucky survivor of the disease & my cancer was considered a certain death sentence only 5 years ago! The word 'Cancer' 20, or even less years ago was spoken in hushed tones & very little was seen or heard of it in the National or Local News or TV. It's a very different story nowadays. The one thing that never changes is the sadness at losing anyone to the various forms of the disease, at whatever age 

The 2 surgeons doing my ops (I'm stage 4 cancer) are confident of a good recovery, and that's good enough for me. I'm getting my halfway scans next week, and with any luck the tumour would have shrunk enough for them to do the op now rather than have another 9 weeks of chemo and end up stock in the hossy over summer.

By all accounts the radiotherapy is the one that will hit the hardest from a side effects point of view, but so long as I'm still breathing then that suits me just fine.

As far as losing loved ones goes, that will always be a sad issue no matter what eventually removes them from the gene pool.

[PhilRich]

Here Here! I'm another very lucky survivor of the disease & my cancer was considered a certain death sentence only 5 years ago! The word 'Cancer' 20, or even less years ago was spoken in hushed tones & very little was seen or heard of it in the National or Local News or TV. It's a very different story nowadays. The one thing that never changes is the sadness at losing anyone to the various forms of the disease, at whatever age 

The 2 surgeons doing my ops (I'm stage 4 cancer) are confident of a good recovery, and that's good enough for me. I'm getting my halfway scans next week, and with any luck the tumour would have shrunk enough for them to do the op now rather than have another 9 weeks of chemo and end up stock in the hossy over summer.

By all accounts the radiotherapy is the one that will hit the hardest from a side effects point of view, but so long as I'm still breathing then that suits me just fine.

As far as losing loved ones goes, that will always be a sad issue no matter what eventually removes them from the gene pool.

I'm really sorry to hear you're going through the mill just now mate but you seem to have a positive outlook & that's powerful medicine by itself    I wish you All the Very Best for the Future 

[pscocoa]

Martian - we all wish you the very best.

from experience of my friend though - I have learnt some important lessons. After he got the all clear he was very buoyant and looking forward - he seemed great. However, he started to get headaches and - apparently (and i say this advisedly as what he told family and friends MAY have been different to what he knew himself and told no one) - the local GP prescribed aspirin etc.

It turns out that after clearance - if it decides to return - the 2 favourite places for cancer to return are liver and brain. He did not push the headache issue and brain tumours developed - he was gone withinh 24 hours of diagnosis. I was surpried that noone made the connection between the headaches and the brain tumour possibilities.

Lesson is not to be complacent and it can be beaten but you have to ensure that you demand full scans if any issues develop after apparently successful treatment.

[Martian]

I'm really sorry to hear you're going through the mill just now mate but you seem to have a positive outlook & that's powerful medicine by itself    I wish you All the Very Best for the Future 

To be honest Phil, I consider myself quite lucky in the side effects stakes. Considering all the things that I could be suffering, the worst I have had is 2 bouts of sickness, slight thinning of hair, and the odd lethargic days where I simply don't have the energy or just can't be bothered to do anything (I suspect the latter is more a mindset thing).

When I was first told (24th december, great xmas pressy) that I had it and that the prognosis for recovery was good, that on it's own was enough to keep the spirit afloat.
However I had already decided while I was waiting for the results that I had 2 choices:

1. Sit there and wallow in self pity
2. Take the bull by the horns and say "f*** you cancer, I haven't had a good row in years so bring it on and let's have it"

I went for the latter and now I (perversly) find that I am much more relaxed and laid back where life is concerned to the point where practically nothing bothers me any more.

Even though I'm not allowed to work at the moment, the glass is still half full and filling nicely as far as I'm concerned.

[Martian]

Lesson is not to be complacent

I generally tend to avoid medical places if I can as I have a real phobia about that sort of thing, I'm always cancelling appointments with dentists, etc as I can "always do it next month".

Although my medical phobia is quite strong (show me a syringe and I WILL pass out), the thought of being 6ft under scares me more, so I'm not skipping these appointments for anything.


PS
Sorry to hear about your friend, and thanks for the heads up.