Cancer.

[BobsLawnService]

I have a family member battling with cancer. Seriously, now I understand just how destructive this can be.

It seems like every time they catch it early, they treat it aggressively and the news is good and that it has been eliminated and you get your hopes up. Then, be it a few months, or a year or so later it hits again. Sometimes in the same spot, sometimes in a different spot. Each time you get your hopes up it boils up again and kicks you in the gut. As someone watching this happen top a loved one it is emotionally draining. I can only imagine how hopeless it must feel as the person going through hell, surgery, chemo, radiation to get given that branch of hope only to have it snatched away like that.

F U C K CANCER.

 

[poffle]

Sorry to hear mate, i know how you feel. My pops is dealing with it

Good luck, can only wish you strength

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Yeah, it's brutal.

 

[Grimspoon]

Yeah cancer is a bitch. Just found out a family friend has it, its already hit the brain.

 

[ant_man]

Yeah Cancer is the absolute Pits.

The SO was diagnosed last year, had 18 Chemo treatments, Mastectomy and now having six weeks of radiation
The affect it has on your life is beyond anything that anybody can understand.

The only thing you can do is take each day as it comes and enjoy your life to the fullest.

 

[Grimspoon]

And consider alternative meds. Chemo and radiation are killers.

 

[EMAM]

when you are dealing with a stage 4 metastatic cancer, there are no alternative meds besides chemo and radiation so you gotta do what you gotta do!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Strongs.

 

[EMAM]

Strongs.

Thanks!

 

[Grimspoon]

Strongs.

+1

 

[BobsLawnService]

Mrs_ant_man I hope you kick its arse.

 

[EMAM]

Mrs_ant_man I hope you kick its arse.

thank you! i have two young kids to fight this fight for!!!

 

[RiaX]

if you can afford it and your cancer is susceptable to it consider the use of doxil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxil#Liposomal_formulations

it is one of the first nanomedicines. The others are still in clinical trial, once these new generation drugs hit the market we hope that we can stop cancer and convert it to a chronic disease (optimistically). I formulate nanomedicines myself their performance is unrivaled

 

[EMAM]

are you referring to the "red devil"? if yes, i had 6 doses of that and 12 of taxol. i have had the harshest of harshest chemo treatments..........

 

[xrapidx]

I read a study the other day (if I recall correctly)
1 in 4 men will get cancer, 1 in 2 of those will die.
1 in 5 woman, and 1 in 3 will die.

Its scary - I always hear about people getting it, but you don't realise just how close it is - apparently your body kills a cancer "creating" cell at least once a day.

 

[xrapidx]

if you can afford it and your cancer is susceptable to it consider the use of doxil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxil#Liposomal_formulations

it is one of the first nanomedicines. The others are still in clinical trial, once these new generation drugs hit the market we hope that we can stop cancer and convert it to a chronic disease (optimistically). I formulate nanomedicines myself their performance is unrivaled

Timelines?

 

[henniedebeer]

Bummer man. Hang in there.

I was diagnosed with a brain cancer back in 1993, and I'm still here. If you ever need someone to talk to, PM me.

 

[RiaX]

Timelines?

hard to say. The one closest to being released is in phase 2 human clinical trials

Its not this one but I like this idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNyPIKbXUf8

 

[Safferbeauty]

Cancer is no joke. My dad was diagnosd with it July 2003, Oesophogial cancer. Went for 30 sessions of Radiation and 5 sessions of chemo. It's not a good sight. Doc gave a year to 2 years max tolive but died in Jan 2004.

Cancer is a harsh and scary disease

 

[RiaX]

I read a study the other day (if I recall correctly)
1 in 4 men will get cancer, 1 in 2 of those will die.
1 in 5 woman, and 1 in 3 will die.

Its scary - I always hear about people getting it, but you don't realise just how close it is - apparently your body kills a cancer "creating" cell at least once a day.

thats a generalised statistic. It depends on the type of cancer you get. You get cancers that are easily treatable if you detect it in time. Then you get things like CA lung or a glioblastoma in the brain where no body survives.

but as I said earlier the era of nanomedicine is arriving and it will do for oncology like what the microprocessor did for computers. These nanomedicines have been in testing for 30 years now their clinical trials are almost over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNyPIKbXUf8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emEua2eJp1U

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-drug_conjugate

the doxirubicin nanoparticle formulation is already available on the market. It trades as doxil if im not mistaken under the FDA approval