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Cancer

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  • #62
    Reiketsu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Reiketsu


    My grandmother on my dad's side died of lung cancer when she was 75. They found it so late that they gave her 2 to 6 weeks to live. In the end she survived 9.

    Not long after that my other grandmother was found to have cancer in the womb so she had a hysterectomy. She almost died during the operation because they cut an artery. She recovered to be cancer free but has since died due to other illnesses.

    My uncle had testicular cancer and had one removed. At the moment they think he has bowel cancer, he has an appointment soon to find out.

    My mum's partner of five years was diagnosed last year in May with bowel cancer. He had several rounds of chemotherapy and radio therapy. He was optimistic. He was to receive stem cell therapy but when they had planned to do it they did tests and the cancer spread to the heart, lungs and pancreas, so he could no longer go for it. They tried a different form of chemo and he had a bad reaction to it. He died of renal failure a week later.

    Female cancers run in my family too.


  • #63
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    twomaddogs wrote: »
    I don't know about the above, but I do know that the company which developed the test for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes recently lost a court case which ended up in the Supreme Court where they had tried to patent the genes.

    They effectively tried to have a monopoly on gene testing for these cancer genes, but the Supreme court ruled that genes are "products of nature" and as such could not be patented.

    Note that the company didn't discover the genes, they just developed the test. The scientist who discovered the genes was "delighted" with the ruling.

    As someone who carries a gene I'm delighted with the ruling as well. My sister is currently trying to get tested abroad and can't afford it, therefore can't get preventative surgery

    Absolute idiots in fairness. It was ruled that no company could ever patent human gene sequences after Celera Corp. tried to during the Human Genome Project, they should've known, especially considering they would've been using their work in the first place.


  • #64
    Tugboats
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭Tugboats


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Bares a striking resemblance to a tv show. I hope he has insurance. Otherwise perhaps he can cook crystal.

    If it's true, sad news.

    :confused:

    No insurance but hes a part time dairy farmer so he should be ok financially


  • #65
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,062 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Had cancer from 2011 for a while. Its hit my Dads side considerable since 2007

    Thankfully mine was never life threatening(at the time) and its in past now.

    But going to hospital getting Chemo every few days was a real wake up call experience.

    Seeing kids as young as 5 and old people 80+, basically all walks of life made me realise the world aint perfect.

    Wrote piece on it here before, but when people say "Your health is your Wealth" they are 100% correct.

    It really is everything.

    EVENFLOW



  • #66
    Thumpette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Thumpette


    Up until 6 months ago I used to feel very lucky that no-one in my large extended family had Cancer. Unfortunately now my Dad is suffering from stage 4 Oesophagus cancer. He's a month into chemo, hoping for a positive outcome which at this stage would be a better quality of life, being able to eat and knocking it back for a few years. He's 57.

    It's definitely made me more aware of my health and to check out a few things I'd been ignoring. I used to always think I'd rather not know I had something like that, but now I know it'll get you anyway and I'd rather be facing the battle early with a decent chance of recovery.

    All the best to all the boardsies on here who are currently battling. I hope you all beat the f*cker!


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  • #67
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Both grandmothers died of cancer.

    Friend had testicular cancer but is now, thankfully in remission.

    My Aunt has terminal cancer, as does my Uncle.

    Found out last week that a long-term family friend only has months to live because of cancer.

    Ten people on my road have died of cancer in the past eight years.
    It really does seem like it's becoming more widespread, unfortunately.

    To all you survivors out there, and for those of you who've lost someone close to you..I'll say a prayer for you when I go to Mass this week.


  • #68
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Tugboats wrote: »
    :confused:

    No insurance but hes a part time dairy farmer so he should be ok financially

    Chemistry teacher with inoperable lung cancer is the plot to breaking bad and the reason he started cooking crystal meth was to pay for his treatment.

    Sorry to hear about your teacher. Hopefully chemo will reduce tumour size and make it operable.

    My lecturer in college was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.


  • #69
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Had 4 large tumours removed from my stomach when I was a kid.
    All's good now though :).


  • #70
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    My dad died from it at 58, thankfully no one else in my family has suffered from it and hopefully it'll stay that way.


  • #71
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Some of you may have read about, or even took part in a recent event organised by the guys in the Cycling forum to raise funds for cancer charities. The inspiration for this was a Boardsie named Le Petit Braquet, who sadly lost his own battle yesterday. I didn't know him at all, but from everything I've read over the last couple of months Boards has lost a true hero. RIP Padraig.


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  • #72
    Hello_MrFox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Hello_MrFox


    SeaDaily wrote: »
    Im not 100% sure what you mean by this. How do define curable? At the moment many people who get cancer are treated and recover so I would say that it is already curable. As treatment becomes more effective the amount of people cured will increase.


    Fair enough, My post was very vague. Im not an expert on the disease at all or even well educated about about it but i often think of the future and what it has in hold for us as a race. In a few hundred years time or even a few thousand i am intrigued as to what developments we will make. I like to imagine that things like cancer will be thing of the past along with a host of others diseases/disabilities. Of course this is just an uneducated prediction but heres hoping.


  • #73
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Hello_MrFox wrote: »
    Fair enough, My post was very vague. Im not an expert on the disease at all or even well educated about about it but i often think of the future and what it has in hold for us as a race. In a few hundred years time or even a few thousand i am intrigued as to what developments we will make. I like to imagine that things like cancer will be thing of the past along with a host of others diseases/disabilities. Of course this is just an uneducated prediction but heres hoping.

    Cancer will always be a thing. People will always get cancer.

    How we deal with and treat cancer will change, and has changed considerably in recent years.

    A great book to read is the emperor of all maladies - it's a biography of cancer. Great story.


  • #74
    Hello_MrFox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Hello_MrFox


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Cancer will always be a thing. People will always get cancer.

    How we deal with and treat cancer will change, and has changed considerably in recent years.

    A great book to read is the emperor of all maladies - it's a biography of cancer. Great story.

    Thanks, i will look into it as i am interested in this subject.

    I agree that in will be a disease that people will suffer from in the foreseeable future - but i cant help but think that it has the possibility to become a small annoyance and nothing more, even something that we can fully prevent our selves from getting in the future. I mean, imagine a million years from now - surely if the human race still exists we will be rid of it?


  • #75
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Lost my mum to ovarian cancer. It was diagnosed and she was started on chemo which was hell as anyone here can attest. She lost her hair and so much weight and was just a faint shadow of her former self. Then it was discovered that it had spread to the liver and bowel. We lost her soon after that. Was cared for so well by the beautiful staff in the the Letterkenny hospice.

    Miss her every day :(


  • #76
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭Calibos


    On the one hand the statistic of "1 in 3 people will get cancer" isn't as bad as it sounds insofar as it doesn't mean that in every family of 6, 2 would get cancer but on the other hand it can almost be worse than it sounds in that while many families won't lose any family members to cancer, other families could lose most to the disease. I'd say genetics play a much larger role than environmental.


  • #77
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    My dad's currently in remission from his 3rd bout of it. Horrible, horrible disease.


  • #78
    jimpump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    my ma died last month from it...I really don't see the point in this thread


  • #79
    Bog Standard User
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    my uncle got told last week he has throat cancer


  • #80
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    My gran died earlier this year after being diagnosed with mouth cancer. Never smoked in her life, and prehaps only took a small drop of alcohol at Christmas.

    Was devastating to see her so sick, with weight loss, in pain, and having to be cared for. Having seen other close family members go through similar, I'm not even sure I'd wish it on my worse enemy. Horrible disease, totally indiscriminate.


  • #81
    Soft Falling Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Soft Falling Rain


    A horrible disease that does not discriminate, and a threat that always looms over you even if you're "cured".

    It's also something that has always put life into perspective for me, and has made me realise not to sweat over the stupid **** that life can throw at us.


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  • #82
    Penny Dreadful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Penny Dreadful


    My brother died from cancer. So did 3 uncles and one aunt. Another uncle had it and survived it as did one of my cousins. My mother had it and surived too.

    Its horrible.


  • #83
    mrkiscool2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭mrkiscool2


    Don't want to put a downer on the thread or anything (more than there already is) but 1 in 3 will develop cancer at some stage in their lives. That sucks, but it's something that as we live longer due to medical advances the odds of our cells going out of control (which is the cause of cancer) increases.

    You have to remember that 250 years ago, if you lived to 50 you were doing well. Now if you die before 50 you're seen as dying too young (and rightly so). But our bodies haven't evolved too much over the years, so we still have a disposition to this kind of thing happening.

    But yeah, there are 9 people in my family so realistically 2 (most likely 3) of us will develop cancer at some stage in our life. But on a positive note it is no longer the death sentence that it was. People are getting themselves checked regularly, either themselves checking for lumps or going to a doctor, only 1% of cancers are seen as fully "uncurable" and we are developing more sophisticated and less harmful methods of getting rid of cancer.

    On a personal note, my grandad has had cancer twice and beaten it both times. To anyone who has lost a loved one or friend through cancer you have my sympathy. It is an awful, awful thing and hopefully one that will become less and less damaging as we develop as humans.


  • #84
    blaze1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭blaze1


    Awful **** of a disease.

    Ma only passed away in October after getting lung cancer for the 2nd time @58.

    The same week as that I heard a good friends bro in law recently passed and the same friends brother had throat cancer.


  • #85
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,191 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    My Grandmother died a few Christmasses (apparently that's not a word) ago, she had cancer that had caused organ failure. Left the bedside to go home for Christmas dinner and then straight back in. Her brother also died around the same time a few years previous while having a Christmas drink in the pub. The focus this time of year puts on family makes it seem worse. Christmas is a bit more muted in my family because of it, I expect one of many families.


  • #86
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    An aunt has had breast cancer but thankfully is okay now. My uncle died from a second bout of bowel cancer in 2010. My grandad is getting a scan next week to check out a growth on his lung. He'll be getting the results right before Christmas. So it's prevalent on both sides of my family.

    I know quite a few people who lost parents too early to cancer. One of my friends nearly died when she was a child. It's a horrible, horrible clusterfcuk of a disease :(


  • #87
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    My mum has had breast cancer twice in the last couple of years. First diagnosed at 49. She's now recovering from her 4th surgery, but has the all-clear. My great-aunt died from liver cancer around 5 years ago too.


  • #88
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Seems to be very prevalent in my family.
    My uncle (by marriage) died after a long battle with it.
    His wife, my aunt died 5 weeks after him from cancer in her liver.
    Their daughter, my cousin, had to have her eye removed as there was a tumor behind her eye. (Thankfully is still here and very healthy)

    My other auntie died in 2007 with cancer, it had completely gone through her she had it pretty much everywhere.

    Her daughter had breast cancer and had both breasts removed and is doing very well now.

    My favourite auntie died in January from cancer in her lungs and her bowel, her spine and her liver.

    Her son was diagnosed a year before with myloma, which is cancer of the blood. He went through horrific treatment and almost died from the treatment but about this time last year he was given the all clear for the time being and he looks good although he knows it will come back, it has bought him time.

    My dad was diagnosed in feb with lung cancer, went through his treatment and is presently very ill in hospital, it's a matter of days tbh.

    It's a disgusting horrible awful disease to have take hold of someone and watch as it takes them piece by piece, and it's even worse watching someone who will never win against it try and try and try fight it.


  • #89
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,699 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    My aunt on my dad's had cancer but she was sick her whole life with kidney problems. The radiotherapy burnt her quite a bit and it was all downhill from there really until she died at 48 last year. She fought the good fight for 45 years.

    My aunt on my mam's side had cancer in her face but thankfully they got to the root of it and the surgery didn't leave a lot of disfigurement. Just a scar running from her neck up to near her eye.

    Other than that, cancer hasn't really been a huge problem in our family. Brain haemorrhages on my mothers side are far too common and heart issues on my dads side.


  • #90
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭Addle


    When you're diagnosed with it, just hope it's somewhere that can be cut out of you.


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  • #91
    Stone Deaf 4evr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    My dad died of it 14 years ago, a growth that started on the back of his calf, he didn't do anything about it until it prevented him from putting on his boots. it was too late by then and had spread up to his stomach and finished him. he was a strong silent type that left behind a wife and four kids, I was the eldest at 19, and tried to fill the void as best I could. I still miss him to this day and will forever regret that my angry teenager phase was in full effect for the last years of his life. There's so much i'd have done differently, and I get very emotional when I see my sisters going to their debs, graduating, etc. I also wish he could have met his grand kids.

    I live in fear of it myself, as I don't know if I'd be able to display the strength of character that he did while he fought his battle. But The one thing it has taught me is to check myself regularly for lumps etc, and to take your health seriously.


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