cancer survivors!
scancer survivors livefspan in USA is getting up
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/a-new-reality-for-terminal-cancer-longer-lives-with-chronic-uncertainty/ar-AA1KHnph
"The U.S. is currently home to 6 million cancer survivors"
Their article tells the story of Gwen O'rly, who was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer at age 33. Ten years later she's still alive โ and she still has metastatic cancer...
Keeping her going is a string of new treatments that don't cure the disease but can buy months โ even years โ of time, with the hope that once one drug stops working a new one will come along. She started on chemotherapy, and then switched to a new treatment, and then another, and another, and another...
A small but growing population is living longer with incurable or advanced cancer, navigating the rest of their lives with a disease increasingly akin to a chronic illness. They are in constant pain but they keep going.
The new drugs can add years to a life, even for some diagnoses like hers that were once swift death sentences. They also put people in a state of limbo, living on a knife's edge waiting for the next scan to say a drug has stopped working and doctors need to find a new one.
The wide range of survival times has made it more difficult for cancer doctors to predict how much time a patient might have left. For most, the options eventually run out....
>They can't cure cancer but they can keep living with cancer for decades now, the only downside is someone must pay for the cancer medication which is a lifetime subscription.
People were projected to be living with stage-four or metastatic disease of the six most common cancers โ melanoma, breast, bladder, colorectal, prostate or lung cancer โ in 2025, according to a 2022 report from the National Cancer Institute.
Notice that nobody lives for long with Non-treatable Pancreatic Cancer (NPC).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/a-new-reality-for-terminal-cancer-longer-lives-with-chronic-uncertainty/ar-AA1KHnph
"The U.S. is currently home to 6 million cancer survivors"
Their article tells the story of Gwen O'rly, who was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer at age 33. Ten years later she's still alive โ and she still has metastatic cancer...
Keeping her going is a string of new treatments that don't cure the disease but can buy months โ even years โ of time, with the hope that once one drug stops working a new one will come along. She started on chemotherapy, and then switched to a new treatment, and then another, and another, and another...
A small but growing population is living longer with incurable or advanced cancer, navigating the rest of their lives with a disease increasingly akin to a chronic illness. They are in constant pain but they keep going.
The new drugs can add years to a life, even for some diagnoses like hers that were once swift death sentences. They also put people in a state of limbo, living on a knife's edge waiting for the next scan to say a drug has stopped working and doctors need to find a new one.
The wide range of survival times has made it more difficult for cancer doctors to predict how much time a patient might have left. For most, the options eventually run out....
>They can't cure cancer but they can keep living with cancer for decades now, the only downside is someone must pay for the cancer medication which is a lifetime subscription.
People were projected to be living with stage-four or metastatic disease of the six most common cancers โ melanoma, breast, bladder, colorectal, prostate or lung cancer โ in 2025, according to a 2022 report from the National Cancer Institute.
Notice that nobody lives for long with Non-treatable Pancreatic Cancer (NPC).
