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Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

I heard an advert on LBC Radio that said 1 in 2 get cancer.

Surely that cannot be right.

They were probably saying that 1 in 2 people will be personally affected by cancer in general, whether themselves or just by virtue of knowing someone who has it. But either way it does get on my nerves when people act like cancer’s a literal death-sentence. As a society we’re conditioned to hear more about the tragic cases and they absolutely have my sympathy (especially considering I lost someone close to cancer a couple of years back) but just as many people win the battle. And some forms of leukaemia/blood cancer are really mild and responsive to treatment.