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Two things. If you follow the news closely, but lack specific expertise or knowledge, you develop this nihilistic sense of doom to some degree. The narrative of our age is that everything is in decline. It pulls clicks.

The other thing is that cancers are not created equal, not all treatments are evolving quickly. Your loved one may be suffering, and that’s your world.

I will say that I lost my beautiful wife a little over a year ago. She had an aggressive cancer, for which the 10-year survival rate was zero. Thanks to the miracle of immunotherapy, the five year survival rate is about 65%. At the same time, my 78 year old aunt successfully fought lung cancer that was a death sentence 20 years ago.




I’ve nothing to add to the discussion but just wanted to say that, for what it’s worth, I’m terribly sorry for your loss.


Thank you both!

I think it’s important to share for a variety of reasons but most importantly to add some humanity to a topic that gets turned into technocrat babble.


Very much the same from me. I know +1 posts aren’t generally welcome here but I hope dang can forgive it.




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