My uncle’s wife, one of my favorite persons in the world, just died of uterine cancer.
I know it’s been said before, but fuck cancer.
Oh, no. I’m so sorry. 
I’m sorry for your troubles.
I have incurable lymphoma, but so far have survived 10 years. My oncologist says that my type of cancer always comes back, and when it returns, it will be more aggressive and more resistant to treatment. This causes me to harbor the belief that cancer is an evil conscious creature. How could something so evil be malice free?
Do people outside the Memphis area see the St. Jude’s Hospital commercials? There’s one where the little kids announce what they’d like to say to cancer. It breaks your heart.
Yeah, fuck cancer. May there be a hell just so cancer can roast there for eternity.
The solution is simple: [thread=703268]don’t get cancer[/thread].
I’m still in mountains of debt just from putting my copays, co-insurance, and prescription costs on credit cards* (I had no other option for most of it). Cancer will ruin your life even if you survive.
I’m reminded that in less than the year from my initial melanoma excision and surgery for recurrence, a coworker’s wife was diagnosed and died from brain cancer. Cancer is bad, worse, or WTF!?.
Fuck cancer,
And fuck anyone who cuts funding for research, too.
*: still not as bad as student loans, though.
The woman who I considered to be an extra grandma when I was growing up has had an odd growth on her hand for several years. Her doctor repeatedly dismissed her concerns, and only recently gave her the referral she needed to seek treatment from a dermatologic surgeon to have the growth removed. The tentative diagnosis from this surgeon is bone cancer, and he’s concerned that it might have had enough time to spread.
Fuck cancer, and fuck dismissive physicians.
My mother died of undiagnosed (until far too late) stage IV metastatic lung cancer about 2 1/2 months ago. I have never had and never will have a better friend.
Do I say, “Fuck cancer?” no. Because I’m not a fucking weenie and I don’t buy into trendy kitsch. And that’s what this is.
Cancer is the monster of the week and everyone knows that if they say, “fuck cancer” they’ll get a “hell yeah!” in return but it is a fucking stupid stance.
Cancer is malevolent and evil? Bullshit. Cancer is a disfunction that results in uncontrolled cell growth. It is not evil, it is not malevolent it simply fucking IS.
Where are the “Fuck Malaria” signs? Where are the “warriors” battling being MS raised to nigh-on saintly status merely for having a fucking disease?
What is it about cancer that has made it the, as I said, monster of the week disease?
The answer, simply put, is that it is a 1st world problem that has massive funding behind it. You say, “Fuck cancer” I say, “clearly marketing works.”
“Fuck cancer” is a weak-assed milquetoast attempt to appear defiant in the face of a half-strong adversary.
Fuck unaffected assholes band-wagonning themselves for the sole purpose of vicarious virtue and collective expected solidarity/support.
Cancer sucks - there is no doubt. But there are certainly things that kill more people and effect more people. Cancer is just the thing to be against right now.
Fuck fuck cancer.
Fuck that attitude.
OK, fuck malaria, too. Happy?
How about fuck mosquitoes? That covers a wide range of diseases.
Well, I HAD cancer and whatever helps people get through it is ok by me. Fuck cancer? Fine. Fuck Fuck cancer? Fine. People have different ways of dealing with it and there isn’t any right or wrong.
Zeke, I’m really sorry about your mom.