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Wow can your condition go south that quickly?
by pcurve 8y ago
Wow can your condition go south that quickly?
- paulpauper 8y agonon-Hodgkin's isn't typically that rapidly fatal, unlike other types of cancer. my guess is some sort of complication from treatment
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- mynameisvlad 8y agoMy grandmother's condition also was stable for a long time before warning signs started showing and she had to go back in for treatments. Her condition deteriorated within the span of 2 or so weeks before passing away. Cancer sucks.
- rbanffy 8y agoA friend of mine lost his partner like that. It was a complication caused by the medication he was prescribed to treat the lymphoma.
- paavoova 8y ago"Recently" can mean anything from now or months. It could be he only went public much later when the full details and scope of the disease came out - no use fearmongering at the first sign of trouble when the doctors haven't had time to assess prognosis.
- lyjackal 8y agoHappened to an uncle of mine at a similar age (a little younger). He had a few months at most from the first symptom. Really tragic
- grumblez 8y agoAbsolutely. A month ago my step father was given 6-12 months. 11 days ago he passed away.
- eganist 8y agoGood lord I'm sorry for your loss. It's shockingly common, too. A close family friend saw progress from an experimental treatment against stage 4 pancreatic cancer (she basically stole some eighteen months of her life back; this cancer at this stage is notorious for being a quick and agonizing death sentence), but despite success in shrinking the metastasized tumor population down to just one, she had the misfortune of her cancer mutating such that the treatment was no longer effective. She was felled two weeks after that discovery. I'm so, so dreadfully sorry for your loss.
- tempestn 8y agoI'm sorry for your loss.
- 6nf 8y agoMy uncle went to the dentist complaining of bit of bleeding in his gums. The dentist immediately sent him to get blood tests done and the next day he was diagnosed with leukaemia. Three days later he passed away.
- ribs 8y agoLike Arthur Kane, bass player for the New York Dolls. Goes to the hospital thinking he has the flu, is diagnosed with leukemia, 2 hours - HOURS - later, he dies.
- arountheworld 8y agoTo be fair, people having unhealthy lifestyle - especially those drinking are feeling terrible all the time - may just think this is how healthy person should feel and miss any symptoms of the potential disease.
- almostApatriot1 8y agoi wonder how much effect the psychological shock has on the body. you hear these types of stories more often than of ones where people die of cancer not knowing they had cancer
- DavidAdams 8y agoIf you haven't seen the movie "New York Doll," about Kane's interesting life trajectory, I recommend it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436629/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436629/
- santix 8y agoI caught that movie already started on a TV channel once and saw like the last third of it. I didn't know the band, and all the while I thought it was a parody similar to Spinal Tap. It wasn't until the ending that I realized everything was a true story.
- franciscrick1 8y agoBy the time you notice the symptoms, in a serious way, you're unfortunately already as good as gone. :(
- CapitalistCartr 8y agoMy parents went hiking/camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Dad was having trouble swallowing. On returning, they went to the doctor and he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He seemed the picture of health. In 5 weeks he died.
- franciscrick1 8y agoSorry for your loss.
- the2and7 8y agoDLBCL is a very aggressive disease with a 5-year survival of ~60%. he was a relapse case from 2009. I'd say he took great care of his condition to have extended his survival to almost 10 years.
- irrational 8y agoYes, a neighbor seemed perfectly fine, found out he had cancer and was dead less than a week later. He was in his mid-40s.
- Gatsky 8y agoThere are some complications of cancer that cause rapid deterioration. The reason why this happens to some people and not others is not well understood. One of the more common rapidly fatal complications is disseminated intravascular coagulation, where the cancer stimulates widespread blood clotting that consumes all the normal clotting factors and results in bleeding which can easily be fatal. It is perhaps not so well understood that a cancer is not 'part of the person'. Our notions of good health presuppose the concept of a united system of physiological functions. Cancer doesn't follow this rule. It is an invasive, foreign organism who's singular purpose is to keep growing no matter what. It is less sophisticated than a virus in that respect. Assessed on a genomic level, you may have less in common with your cancer than you do with your neighbor.
- jacquesm 8y agoTwo weeks is the questionable speed record in my family. From 'hm, why do I almost black out when I sneeze or cough' to funeral.
- mcv 8y agoSome cancers are slow, some are fast. My mother died a few weeks after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is always a fast killer. I'm glad we got to do some things together as a family in those last few weeks.
- philjohn 8y agoIt depends on a lot of things, his age will have been a factor in a poorer prognosis - generally if you get it > 60 (or it recurs) it's not great: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/detection-diagnosis-staging/factors-prognosis.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/detection...