Reply #2: I had a near miss with kidney cancer, lost friends to cancer, and my MIL's a survivor. [View All]

[knitter4democracy]

Last year they found a huge tumor in my right kidney, and while it looked and acted like cancer, I should be cured since they think it won't metastasize. Considering the pathology specialist had never seen anything like it other than a rare cancer, my doctor's keeping a close eye on me.

I lost a good teaching friend to lung cancer, and six months later, we buried another good teacher friend who died from breast cancer that the mammogram never saw. My stepmom's family has been wracked with cancer (her mom, her dad, her uncle, her sister with precancerous tissue, her with precancerous tissue), and my dad had skin cancer he got from work (radiation) come back a second time that's near his eye.

All I have to say is cancer sucks.