@MommaJ

Holy shit! You are a true warrior! I'm so happy that you beat the beast! Yes, early detection is so important! Preventative care such as yearly screening is also vital. There are still places that can and will "cure" cancer. My dear friend Kristina just beat leukemia for the 3rd time. The chances of that are rare! Her team told her that they could count on 1 hand how many people survived 3 rounds! My cousin and another friend also beat stage 4 breast cancer.
#fuckcancer

@grayman

@Spagesgallo1 @MommaJ @grayman @damselfly59 A friend has cancer, meeting consultant at end of the month. They offloaded to me last night, and I have no idea how to support them as a single mother, the father of the child (12) has health issues and lives 500 miles away.
#fuckCancer #PrayerRequest

@Mauve_matelot @MommaJ @grayman @damselfly59

I am so sorry to hear about your friend. No one has any magical words, when someone is confronted with such a diagnosis. As a friend, sometimes, just by you listening and offering love is enough. I will definitely be sending up prayers for your friend. 🙏 💜

@Mauve_matelot

Sending up prayers 🙏 for you as well!

@MommaJ @grayman @damselfly59

@Mauve_matelot
Love will show you the way. I know you are strong. But we are here to hold you when your knees buckle.
I wish I was there. Let me know if there is ANYTHING I can do. For Any of you.🖤

@Spagesgallo1 @MommaJ @grayman

Thank you for your Direst Messages @damselfly59 and unfortunately the return of #fairwarning-darkskies as I face and process what is happening here in this British situation.

@Spagesgallo1 @MommaJ @grayman

@Mauve_matelot @Spagesgallo1 @MommaJ @grayman no apologies needed. Ever. Only love from here and sadness you have to use it.🖤

@damselfly59 @Mauve_matelot @Spagesgallo1 @grayman
my cousin, 49 , has a 3 yr old was to leave today for the grand canyon, wanted to see it with his son. Cousin has had liver cancer for around 6 years. Looks like he won't be taking his son to the GC. Not sure he'll make it another week. #cancersucks so much. But please find something, anything positive.. the gofundme should be over, do NoT donate. Just want to show his beautiful face and his love...

@MommaJ

OMG! I am so very sorry about your cousin! My heart is truly breaking. He truly has a beautiful face and you can FEEL the love between him and his son! I have no words, except I hope and pray that you and your family find some comfort in knowing that you are in our prayers. Sending you, your cousin, his son and family much love, light and strength. May your cousin have a peaceful transition. ❤️ 🙏

#cancersucks

@damselfly59 @Mauve_matelot @grayman

@Spagesgallo1 @MommaJ @damselfly59 @Mauve_matelot @grayman
Cancer sucks. Fuck cancer. Lifting your cousin and family up today. 💚

@Usama_Backhair @grayman As a Christian I believe in an afterlife. That doesn't mean I don't try to extend my life by counting calories, working out, and avoiding bad habits. It means I have peace in knowing where I will go when death comes. None of us gets out of this alive so don't put off answering these ultimate questions in your own life. #Peace

@Usama_Backhair @grayman cancer is a special type of cunt in that it is your own personal disease, tailor made from your own DNA just for ruining you. Hence finding a universal cure is difficult. I do hope that there will one day be a cure, especially with advances in gene therapy etc. I lost a good person in my life a few years ago who died young from this disease. #FuckCancer

@Cynanthrope
Agreed. I don't know if it's even
being properly researched at this point, but Dr James Allison formerly of MD Anderson, Then of Jounce Therapeutics (the company he founded, and which recently was sold and taken private) was doing amazing research on Immunotherapy drugs, one of which he gave to Multiple Myeloma patients w/no other treatment recourse, and in I think 80(ish)% their bodies actually fully cured their cancer...I worry since the sale about how that is going.
@grayman

@Usama_Backhair @grayman there's a lot of money to be made in finding a cure so I'm sure that someone somewhere will continue where that research left off. Just hope that it is sooner rather than later.

@Cynanthrope
Yeah, what I worry about is there's a lot more to be made by using "treatments", that involve sometimes decades of infusions of exceptionally expensive drugs like Zometa, my dad underwent 11 years of Zometa infusions and it made the drug company hundreds of thousands of dollars just from one patient...THAT'S why i worry. Dr Allison's drug was one treatment, then one follow up (just to be sure) and it FULLY cured "untreatable" MM in majority of patients trialed.

@grayman

@Usama_Backhair @grayman even something that only takes one treatment could make a fair bit of cash, as cancer affects and will affect a lot more at some point.

@Cynanthrope
Agreed, I worry for some madmen that's simply not exploitable enough though, JNCE had a tender offer from Redx in the UK, and was about to be reverse merged but then Concentra, a privately owned
subsidiary of Tang Capital Partners, did a hostile bid for the deal after they had tanked the stock to just above $1 using short selling. Too important a company to have been allowed imo, but also I'm a capitalist so 🤷‍♂️
I digress< forgive me.
@grayman

@Cynanthrope
Here's a story and Note: the short selling statement is from my own observations, not part of (as far as I know) anyone's reporting.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/mysterious-biotech-makes-last-minute-bid-snatch-jounce-out-redxs-hands

@grayman

@Cynanthrope
A larger company and some investors basically short sold the company until the stock price tanked so they could then take it private, but his research confirmed that the human immune system, (universally, it appeared) can be spurred and encouraged in such specific ways that your body can FULLY CURE even a destructive bone cancer like Multiple Myeloma, which if you're not familiar used to end people sometimes in as fast as 3 weeks.

@grayman