CANCER - Do you or a love one have ever suffer from Cancer?

my grandad died from it  , im not sure what type of cancer it was because it was 30 years ago, but it still is really sad because i never got to see him

yeah,my aunt has colon cancer,but doctors say they can save her. however,my mother had tumour on her leg twice...hope it will never come back again   

Last edited by aurora2310 (07-08-2008 14:39)

i don't know cuz i'm never avare of situation..it seems like it's happening to someone else.fe,two mounths ago my friend died in a car crash (three weeks before his 17. birthday)   ,and i couldn't believe then...and i can't believe now...i'm crying every third night cuz i can't believe he's gone and we'll never drink coffee again and so on..
it' s like a dream
and you just can 't  help...
i keep  asking myself WHY? but there's no answer

i hate dying and i'm afraid of everything cuz there's too much sick person around me who might die...and it changed me a lot...

some of my relatives had died of cancer and it becomes everydays life      

I'm sorry about your aunty XBabyCakes.
I'm at a lost too. I don't know what to say or do when someone you're especially close to is dying. It's like the whole relationship changes in a weird way.

EMELIA101 wrote:

well it seems like everyone i work with has some sort of cancer... all you can do is tell them to live like everyday is the last and not to dwell on the what if's and might's miricals happen ever day... my boss has breat cancer... my other boss has it in his liver and the gave him 6 months more then 6 months ago... and i have ovarien cancer. all i can say is never give up hope that there is a treatment out there that will help u if your  doctors says there not go to 80 more if you need to

i'm so sorry to hear about your health.

cancer is an awful illness, and when death is on the cards, it's so painful. But most people do live on. The technology of today is so much more advanced than 20 years ago.

Regarding facing relatives with cancer, i agree Kumari, the relationship changes. Whenever i see my aunty, i see she is getting sicker and sicker, but i can't say anything. i don't dare say anything. you don't want to remind them? you know. I cry at night sometimes, and pray she'll get better. My mum thinks i don't care though, because we never talk about it. That makes me even sadder.

My Mum passed away this year from cancer, it was a caracinoid that had spread to her liver, its commonly slow growing but my Mums was a fast one.

I'm crying about it 4 months on...

When My mum was diagnosed I had just come home from graduating to live with my parents, so at the moment its me and Dad, as my brother is still at Uni. He copes, somehow....


On grieving, I guess the best tip is to realise theres no right way or wrong way, all member sof my family have done it very differently. The second best is having lots of family around , Im pretty close to my auntie so thats good.

My cousin's baby died from cancer March this year. It was heartbreaking, she was nearly 5 months old, still find myself crying about it sometimes. It was a rhabdoid tumour, she had it since birth and it grows really quickly. My grandad is just recovering from cancer, he had throat cancer and they had to take his voice box out to try and get rid of it all. Thats what the years of smoking did to him. Hes just finished a course of radiotherapy to make sure they've got rid of it all. My uncle had a brain tumour, he had one quite a few years ago, but this year it came back but hes had an operation and is recovering well thank goodness. Nothing can prepare you for the destruction in life that cancer causes. I just hope one day they find a quick cure, and in many years to come no one will get it anymore.

kumari wrote:

Apparently 1 in 2 of us will get it at some stage in life.

It's 1 in 3 actually. It makes it sound slightly better than 1 in 2. slightly.
and my mum hates smear tests too, but they have to be done! Touch wood, the doctors have never found anything, but only time will tell. better to be safe than sorry.

I actually don't mind my pap; it isn't the most pleasant but it is a heck of a lot better than getting a shot (to me at least!!!).

One of my grandmothers had breast cancer before I was born (she has no breasts now), as well as skin cancer.  My other grandmother had colon cancer a few times.  My mother has had skin cancer as well as a precancerous lesion in her mouth.  Luckily, each of them had it caught early enough that something could be done.

I'm pretty certain I'm either going to die of cancer or diabetes, and I'm not looking forward to that.

cancer runs in my family heavily. i have had at least 10 member of my family die of cancer in the past ten years. i have plenty of friends that have died of cancer. my grandpa died of cancer and so did two of his brothers and two of his sisters. i feel that i know when i get older that i will probably have it since it is a great cursor in my family

my grandma had ovarian cancer and all the doctors said that she would die within a couple months. but miraculously she lived for another 8 years until the cancer returned. she lived a long life but it was terrible the way the hospital treated her.