# Fuck cancer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-cancer/707650>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 19, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-cancer/707650 "2014-12-19T08:43:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-cancer/707650/21 "2017-04-23T04:42:42Z")

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Went to a friend’s funeral today. Yeah, cancer.

She should’ve been on this planet for another twenty years. But, thanks to the chemo and radiation and love and prayers and a bit of luck, she was around four “bonus” years longer than she was diagnosed.

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