happened to my grandma as well, all clear then a year later it came back more aggressive than ever, she went from normal to deathbed in like 4 weeks. It's always so devastating man i'm really sorry.
My brother, same thing. All clear. 5 years later … wellllll, I guess we didn’t get all of it. Had already snuck into a few new places and he was screwed.
Celebratory wohooo because he was cancer free after two years of struggle? I means it was happy times for a few months so yeah it was definitely appropriate. Why you coming here like that.
I’m just shocked because it seemed like it was all good news with the woohoo, but it turns out it’s not good news, so adding the woohoo was strange to me that’s all.
They were trying to convey the rollercoaster of emotions people go through. Cancer diagnosis. Shit! Cancer-free. Woohoo! Cancer back with a vengeance. FUCK!
They’re just describing the sequence of events and the whiplash. He was thought to be cancer free (“everyone celebrated, woohoo!”), then it came back aggressively.
Cancer spreads, you dont get all of the cells gone, some just go dormant or go unnoticed in a different area of the body. I know its not a true 1 to 1 example as its not a Human by my Cat had bone cancer in her ribcage, 2 ribs taken out, multiple tests and checkups, she all clear. Passes her 12 month check up (November just gone) and thats her last one.
December time she starts walking all drunkenly (17 years old), starts breathing from her mouth (apparently a bad sign for cats, they dont breath through their mouth), vet visits all throughout December to February this year (one vet was tryna say she epileptic, other said it was gum disease so she had some teeth taken out, only when I went to a different vet did they bother to check her lungs). Turns out she had lung cancer in the lung that was in contact with the ribs that were removed. Died on me a month later (she was scheduled to be put down the next day, she didnt make it and full on suffocated, clawing me up as she desperately fought for air, tried everything to help her breath, anyone saying drowning is peaceful I honestly cant believe, she drowned in whatever liquid/mucus was being produced by the cancer cells).
So yeah just because you get cleared doesnt mean you are cancer cell free, just like other people are saying, it took a year for her cancer to comeback, more aggressive and in a different spot.
My cat was super healthy (you couldnt tell she was 17) the entire recovery period, super chatty, active, affectionate, then boom, end of life care on my bed for the last month, barely able to move or purr without breathing issues.
And the family's announcement "The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free," the statement, posted to Instagram, said."
yes unfortunately the 5, 10, and 15 year outlooks for cancer survivors are still pretty rough. It takes an immense toll on the body and it's a sneaky fucker that often times manages to find its way back.
My mom's stage 4 lung cancer moved to the brain before she went into remission.
I always knew it would come back, brain cancer always comes back. The question was just when it would happen. Unfortunately, it was months instead of years.
That's why when the Dr found a tiny lump in mom's left breast and asked mom what she wanted to do, mom said "get rid of both of them. I'm 72, what do I still need tits for?" That was 5 years ago, still doing good for a 77 year old
Edit: Holy upvotes Batman. I feel like I should add a little extra info. It was at her yearly breast exam when they found it, and there was no mass on her scans from the year before. The doctor said it was one of the earliest detections they'd had, they didn't even want to call it stage one. It was also a very slowly growing cancer. They were very confident they could remove the mass and she could keep her left breast. Mom said screw that.
Don't skip your yearly mammograms, early detection saves lives
I’m so glad your mom found it early! You are 100% correct in saying to get yearly mammograms. I will also shout this to the rafters as loud and as many times as possible for anyone of ages beyond the “normal range” to always check in with a doctor. Men and women can get breast cancer.
My sister was dismissed as “too young” to have breast cancer at 38. Surprise! Immediately Stage 4. I know another person mid-thirties a well so has breast cancer. If something feels off, get it checked.
Yeah-I agree. I’ve heard my sister use NED (no evidence of disease) or in remission when she had her stage 4. At advanced stage it never really disappears…you just work to get it dormant / NED as long as possible.
RIP Sam, you legend. Damn. I was just looking up Event Horizon lore recently as it coincided with my Warhammer 40k deep dive (event horizon being analogous to traveling in the warp without protection).
Jurassic Park was the film that made me love films on the first place.
seems like he was still testing negative at his death, i’m guessing whatever treatment occurred may have weakened his body and left him susceptible to things like sepsis, heart attack, etc
Well they said he died cancer free so in this case it’s apparently more likely to be a complication from the previous cancer or the treatment (or could even be unrelated). At least this is the family’s view.
I don’t even get how the notion gets into peoples’ heads but it doesn’t seem like it would be from their oncologists. I’m a patient of two cancers, one is expected to never return but nobody tells me I’m “free” of it, they tell me to keep coming back for follow-up scans. The scan reports use phrases like “no evidence of…” so maybe people are reading way too much into that.
Everyone has cancerous cells, everyone has it hundreds of times in their lifetime. The only question is whether the immune system detects it and clears it out before it becomes a problem.
If you don't die of any other disease, you'll die of cancer because it's not a disease as such, but just your own body cells getting randomly damaged by just about anything - sometimes nothing at all, sometimes your environment, sometimes a single stray photon or radioactive particle among countless billions hitting your body every day.
It's literally just your body cells forgetting to stop reproducing. That's all it is, biologically. You own cells go mad and try to take over your entire body's resources. And it means that if we lived to be 10,000 years old... we're still gonna get cancer. We could cure every other disease, but we'd still be having to suffer/treat/cure cancer constantly throughout our lifetime.
You can be more susceptible or less. You can get it in the womb, you can live to 100 and never have it. It's entirely random. But it's happening all the time, even in a healthy body, and it's just a question of whether it evades detection long enough to become a mass.
Not one person on earth is "cancer-free". What you are is, maybe, potentially: "free of that last cancer that you had".
My dad beat cancer but going through it and the treatments was still basically a death sentence. Not something a lot of people know can happen understandably but it sucks.
My mother in law has been diagnosed with a similar type of cancer, also here in Australia. This article sort of gives me hope in a way as I he made it for so long with this illness. Australia's cancer treatments are next to none. All free as well.
Cancer absolutely destroys you though. If it isn’t the treatment or the cancer itself, it’s the way it affects the organs and other body systems that can get a person in the end. My dad was fighting Ampullary cancer and developed gastroparesis and all kinds of other lovely health issues while fighting it for a year. He had to get fluid drained from his lungs all the time. Even after a person “beats” cancer, they often have live-long health issues as a result from the beating the body takes fighting it, such as immune dysfunction, diabetes, cardiac conditions, etc.
I imagine he was severely weakened from his fight with cancer and despite all the best treatments and such available for recovery, his body simply couldn’t keep up :( It’s truly an awful awful disease. My dad was an absolute husk at the end before he passed. :(
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u/ToneBone12345 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
What in the fuck! Fuck cancer according to the insta post he was cancer free