Cancer Treatment News

[The Beatles]

I know that this is off-topic, and I apologize if I annoy you. However, this topic is very personal for me. Read this link, and the pages linked from it:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/ ... 191&tid=14
Again, I apologize for being off-topic; it won't happen.

[Devari]

Well, that's some pretty good news.

Out of interest, how is this personal for you? You don't need to answer if you don't want. Don't want to pry or anything.

Myself, I lost the only two grandparents I had left to cancer.

[The Beatles]

Yes, indeed, it sounds like the answer to a long-sought question.

My father, when I was 13. I don't feel that either my mother or I have been quite all right ever since. It is a vague feeling, though.

I am sorry to hear about your grandparents. Thank goodness, my grandfather is healthy.

[Nohc]

My grandfather was just diagnosed with colon cancer not too long ago... we thought he'd live to be 100. Pretty much everyone knows someone affected by cancer.

[The Beatles]

Yes, although I believe the statistic is higher here in America, than say in Eastern Europe where I am from.

[Devari]

Ouch. That's a bit harder to deal with than Grandparents - at least they had lived long lives.

Both my grandfathers died before I met them. My mom's father died 10 or so months before I was born. My dad had to deal with something a bit like you - his father died from Polio when Dad was only 5. His stepfather died young as well.

[The Beatles]

This has run in my father's branch of the family, although mainly among the females. It's quite likely that I have to watch out too.
It is a bit sad that you never met your grandparents, although -- maybe this is quite stupid -- it may be easier to deal with this way. I think I'm wrong though.

[Slasher]

My great grandad is dying from cancer

[yellow]

my teach had brest but beat it back and the black shep of the family keeps getting it in diffrent areas and won't die. more proof that only the good die young

[bjornredtail]

Sounds like a neat technology. I just hope that a viable treatment can be made from it.

[Fresh Water Fighters]

My great grandad is dying from cancer

That is sad.

You are lucky. I never knew my great grandperents.
I knew only three of my grandprents.
My granddad died from cancer.
Now I have only a Grandmum left.
*sob*

[Slasher]

My great grandad is dying from cancer

That is sad.

You are lucky. I never knew my great grandperents.
I knew only three of my grandprents.
My granddad died from cancer.
Now I have only a Grandmum left.
*sob*

sorry to hear that mate

[gondor]

sorry about that m8

[The Beatles]

Gondor, if you're really slasher's brother, why bother to say sorry to him, and on our forums? It's your granddad too, right? And you can't say it in real life? Or what is going on?

[Slasher]

He is my step brother Beatles so it is his grandad sort of if you know what I mean. Why he didnt just say it to me I don't know. Probably 'cause he wanted another post.