So last year around this time the father of a classmate of mine passed away from cancer.
And then yesterday an old teammate of mine’s mother passed away due to the same fucking disease that she’s been fighting for 10 years (on and off).
RIP and will someone please find a cure for this shit
You can help. Become involved with the ‘Purple Menace’.
You said it. I lost a friend to it this week. He wasn’t even thirty, didn’t see it coming. The service is in an hour. It sucks. RIP Rob.
it does suck. saw it ruin my father’s health right before my very eyes. i still can’t get the images out of my head. it’s a horrible disease, and that’s why you have to count your lucky stars that you don’t have it–it is the worse of suffering.
I lost my friend, dentist and client last week…
There are cures - unfortunately they don’t work for everyone…
Someday they will.
TnT is specifically raising funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; you might also try the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Program for the more general catagory of cancer. I’ve participated in it several times, there’s nothing quite like the survivor’s walk, the candle lighting service and the reading of the names of those lost in the last year in your community.
I just wish that the pharmaceutical companies would spend more funding a cure for cancer than marketing for boner pills.
I just wish that the pharmaceutical companies would spend more funding a cure for cancer than marketing for boner pills.
These are buisnesses. They exist to make money. Men will pay to be able to bang their mistress. Hence, we get entire commercial blocks about rival ‘boner pills’.
The joys of capitalism
Revenues from drugs like Dr. Porkenheimer’s Boner Juice provide revenue that fund the investment in other drugs (as well as a tidy profit at the end of the day).
Marketing $$ is not taking away from cancer research in any way.
Sorry to hear about your losses, Freestyle…I think most of us here have been touched in one way or another by this disease…I’m sure that there’s a substantial number who’ve lost a family member to cancer (including me)…
The pain is universal.
And you know what % of RD is invested in cancer vs “boner” drugs how? I’m rather confident that your misguided attempt to critize the pharmaceutical industry is way off base. If you go through the R&D budgets over the last 20 years you’ll see that more money, hundreds of millions more, has been spent on finding a cure for cancer than “boner” pills.
My mother in law fought breast cancer for 4 years before finally succumbing…it has definitely affected my wife and she feels like an orphan. I often wish I could go back in time and force my mother in law to stop smoking and get a mammogram.
That said, I’m under the impression that different cancers require different types of research, and as a result, cures and $$$. Also the mortality rates vary quite a bit from cancer to cancer. I believe thyroid cancer is very treatable because they load you up with a radioactive element that only gets absorbed by the thyroid (Iodine?)…
The point I’m so poorly trying to make is that I believe cancer research is generally type specific as are the treatments…
AND - the PROFITS from the “boner” pills help provide the funds for R&D for the research for cancer (and other disease) cures.
So, it’s not all ‘bad’.
Look I don’t have a problem that the pills exist, I think they help lots of people. In fact I don’t really want to hijack this thread either (take it to the lavender room if you like…)
Cancer does suck.
Capitalism will facilitate finding a cure. Ask Lance what the capitalistic Bristol-Meyers Squibb did for him.
You sir are absolutely clueless.
“I just wish that the pharmaceutical companies would spend more funding a cure for cancer than marketing for boner pills.”
Hey, those boner pills are what pay the rent and allow the drug companies to do research.
How bad would it be to say that boner pills support orphan drugs?
You are correct. In fact, Viagra® was not originally designed to pimp your johnson, but to lower your blood pressure by dilating capillaries.
you are correct, different cancers require different treatments and research. There are even dramatic differences in how blacks vs whites respond to certain types of therapies for the same cancer. Aromatase inhibitors are one example that exhibit this effect.
Cancer does “suck”. Sometimes, though, things turn out Ok. I was first diagnosed about 18 years ago. Three recurrences, over 40 rounds of chemo, 3 major surgeries, and loss of half a lung I am now cured. I honestly wish you well in grieving with your loss. It’s hard, and only time and remembering the good things help.