He says it's operable (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-john-prine-cancer-20131122,0,1716607.column) and I wish him the best. Unfortunately the five year survival rate is still under 20%.
I just had a friend from collage die of lung cancer, he was 54 and had four young kids he just got custody from a divorce.
He was a consistent smoker.
RIP. Denis
My dad had lung cancer. They took 1/3 of his lung, and the cancer spread to his kidney (they took that) and finally his lymph glands. He made it 3 years. Horrible disease, and my dad had quit smoking 15 years before it caught up with him.
I lost my sister to it in 2012. Lifelong smoker, it metastasized and basically took over her body. Dont smoke. Anything. Ever. It's not worth it.
Same here. My dad was diagnosed at age 44, they removed a lung but it had metastasized and he was gone three years later. Seems like a lifetime ago.
It's still an especially evil form of cancer - along with the pancreatic thing.
Mom died from it (at 59), and never smoked.
Quote from: uwe on November 25, 2013, 10:37:24 AM
It's still an especially evil form of cancer - along with the pancreatic thing.
Pancreatic cancer can be far more aggressive. It has to be caught early and even then, there's not a lot of hope. I knew someone whose doctor didn't detect it in testing when she knew something was wrong. It took her in only a few months.
My dad passed from pancreatic cancer. Took six months.