[Redway]

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.

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by Redway

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.

Yes, that could sound about right. But even so I don't know of anyone, friends, family, neighbours who have had cancer.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

Yes, that could sound about right. But even so I don't know of anyone, friends, family, neighbours who have had cancer.

I’m a bit surprised you genuinely don’t know anyone who’s had it. I used the one close relation who sadly lost the battle some years back as one example (and a really sad one) but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. All my life I’ve known of people who’ve had some form of cancer over the years and I assume that’s what more people than not experience. It’s not a rare kind of illness.

[Redway]

I could tell you a lot of stories, Gusto, (some tragic, many others good-outcome) of the people I know who’ve battled cancer but ultimately those aren’t my stories to tell and much of it’s quite personal so I’m not going to say too much. But just know that cancer’s far from the rare death-sentence you might’ve thought of it as. There are probably people in your local pub dealing with it. People go through so much in life.

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by Redway

I’m a bit surprised you genuinely don’t know anyone who’s had it. I used the one close relation who sadly lost the battle some years back as one example (and a really sad one) but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. All my life I’ve known of people who’ve had some form of cancer over the years and I assume that’s what more people than not experience. It’s not a rare kind of illness.

Hand on heart, NO. My grandfather and grandmother died of natural causes, as did two of my uncles and an aunt. No friends haven't been stricken with it either, or their parents. If so it has never been mentioned. It's always the heart that fails in the deaths I know about. But usually in very old age.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

Hand on heart, NO. My grandfather and grandmother died of natural causes, as did two of my uncles and an aunt. No friends haven't been stricken with it either, or their parents. If so it has never been mentioned. It's always the heart that fails in the deaths I know about. But usually in very old age.

I wasn’t really insinuating that cancer was the most common note for old people to go out on by any means in the first place but like I said I’m surprised.

I don’t know what kind of lucky, lucky life you’ve lived. I don’t just know for you.

[GoldHeart]

Devasting news
Hope he gets better

[Redway]

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