John Prine diagnosed with lung cancer

[Dave W]

He says it's operable and I wish him the best. Unfortunately the five year survival rate is still under 20%.

[Barklessdog]

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

[gweimer]

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.

[lowend1]

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.

[Dave W]

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.

[uwe]

It's still an especially evil form of cancer - along with the pancreatic thing.

[patman]

Mom died from it (at 59), and never smoked.

[gweimer]

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.

[Pilgrim]

My dad passed from pancreatic cancer.  Took six months.