A friend of mine was diagnosed as terminal in his mid 20s (he had a giant mole underneath one of his fingernails that he never got checked out and it was later

A friend of mine was diagnosed as terminal in his mid 20s (he had a giant mole underneath one of his fingernails that he never got checked out and it was later discovered to be aggressive melanoma that spread all over the place before they were able to amputate the finger). He was given 12-18 months, so was able to get into a string of experimental treatments. He's the first patient in the world to have tried a few different treatments, and... the best part, he's still alive today turning 40 next year. He still has cancer, and it'll probably get the best of him at some point, but he's stoked to have made it 15 YEARS past his initial terminal diagnosis. Obviously experimental trials can go the other way too, but it was a risk he was more than willing to take.