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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This is typically a beatable cancer.[/b] (I’m a colon cancer survivor).
Get your colonoscopy. Follow your med team’s recommendations of gold standard treatment. [/quote]

* Unless you are diagnosed in your thirties or early 40s
* Unless your doctors write off your symptoms as acid reflux or IBS
* Unless the cancer has metastasized to other organs like the liver and the lungs
* Unless you have a gene mutation that makes your tumor less likely to respond to chemotherapy
* Unless your cancer has metastasized and is no longer resectable[/quote]
Stage 3 colon cancer (is not stage 4) is statistically a beatable cancer. Of course it's not a 100% guarantee.
Get your colonoscopy.

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I don't know the full story of his cancer.  But I have had cancer that is considered "curable".  It has a 90% 5 year survival rate in fact, which is very high.  That still means 10 out 100 people DIE FROM THE CANCER.  So having a statistically beatable cancer does not save every single person who get the cancer.  Statistics are not personal and *someone* is the 1% or 5%.  Maybe he was reckless, maybe he didn't get screen at the exact right time, maybe he used juice instead of chemo.  I don't know.  But what I do know is that everyone is so hell bent on pretending that they are doing everything right, therefore they are safe.  Cancer does not always work like that.    [/quote]

This. My father died from a cancer that had a 95% chance of permanent remission post-surgery and an even higher 5 year survival rate. He was one of the unlucky very, very few.[/quote]

It’s a coping mechanism.  People want to think nothing will happen to them if they do “everything” right.  But it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes you get the unlucky card.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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