Anyone here with a close family member struggling with cancer?

Are you guys doing okay? Do you feel like talking to anyone? A support group maybe?

This post has been edited by Underhill: Nov 23 2016, 11:01 PM

My friend's relative is struggling with cancer now.

Last time my uncle n auntie suffering from cancer.Pity them.now they pass away alr.

cancer benign or metastatic. benign ask them go remove it and stop sobbing la
if metastatic then ask them enjoy life and do what ever you wish u had done before your time expires. no use sobbing

Every 4 person in the world there will be one person getting cancer.

25% of the world population is most likely to get cancer but how many % is of 25% is going to die from it.

There are no sure fire way to cure cancer. Most therapies that kills cancer is just as harmful the healthy cells.

Even after sort of 'curing' cancer, they are bound by extremely strict diet and exercise constraint.

thats cause cancer cells are immortal cells. they multiply with no restrictions and just keep growing. thats y there is no cure to cancer only a way to kill it.
if youre able to cure cancer might as well induce cancer to your body and then cure it to live as an immortal.

since cancer cells are normal cells what ever kills the cancer cells does the same to the normal cells.

I wonder how others coping with their relative struggling with cancer especially someone close like their father or mother lying in bed suffering. How much does your life change? Are you able to bear it? How did you take the news? How are you coping with the possibility of losing your love one? Financially, how do you manage it? Does your life is all back and forth to hospital and work?

Do you talk to someone? Ain't easy finding someone who understand unless they are in the same shoes, isn't it? Is there any support group? If your struggle is over, do you think you are the same person as you were before? If not, how?

Please share if you're one.

This post has been edited by Underhill: Dec 28 2007, 06:55 PM

actually happened to my good friend once. his mom got breast cancer and is inoperable. so she went back home and died there.
my friend never cried but laughed. he tought his mom was just playing around. now 14 yrs later he still cant forget the fact that his mom died of cancer but he was glad that she died peacefully

well! i got a colleague who had colon cancer, he had part of his colon cut out, now shorten dunno by how many cm. But good thing is he's ok already, just have to avoid certain food only. And best part is insurance paid him his claims and i heard he's also getting abt 10K per year frm the insurance. Not so sad for him.

My aunt had breast cancer and died after five years suffering from it.

It was an interval of getting well and getting sick again and again.

First she was terminal stage => got well => occasionally come back pretty mild => terminal stage => died

I think she suffers the more compared to my other aunt and 2 friends who had leukemia and lung cancer from smoking.

my grandfather had cancer. now pass away d. I notice nowadays,a lot of people with vagina cancer. dono isit vagina(somewhere there)

Life is short.
Live fast die young.
Leave a beautiful corpse.
You've come a long way baby!

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wah, you say till very easy 1?? but the time we face it ourself we will lose control of what we think we should do

2 years ago my dad was havin some bad gastric pain in the stomach
when the problems become worst after a month he decided to go to the hospital
when they scan they could see its a tumor
when they operate and actually see it , was already to late
it has mature to stage4
when the signs show ur pretty much at stage 3/4 :\ chances are slim
pancreatic cancer btw its the same as pavarotti that died recent

i think high percentage of people around us being hit by cancer is bcoz of our unhealthy lifestyle
diet/exercise and fast foods together along with toxins that we consume

This post has been edited by aegis`-: Feb 8 2008, 01:35 PM

To sad to hear that... My father is died of cancer too.... Nose cancer from stage 2, then spread to brain, bone, lung ,liver in 4 years. Haih.....hate of cancer

yea once it spread the fate is pretty much known whats gonna happen

My aunt got cancer when she was 40. She's the one who take care of me since young. Cancer killer of life.
Too many chemicals in this life i guess

cancer patients they have to suffer a lot...
for the rest of us, take a good care of ourself,
as for those cancer patients, be strong and never give up...bless u...

I have a relative with prostate cncer that's completely metastasized, he sought a lot of dubious treatments for the past year finally going for chemo last month. He's around 55.

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Added on February 8, 2008, 5:42 pmIs sex allowed in such groups?

This post has been edited by Polaris: Feb 8 2008, 05:42 PM

Is there any problem of having sex with a cancer patient?
I never heard that it is not allowed.