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Cancer runs down on my moms side of the family... every single women or our side has had cancer and they either had surgury or died from it being to late.... I know my mom had sugury and hers was tacken away. But the doctors are worried that I have it cause I've been having alot of health probolems and I'm constanly getting blood work done or tests on my heart and it seems like almost every second week. I take after moms side of the family and I'm kinda worried. My grandpa has a whole bunch of different types of cancer *of course his way of life may not help either...* from what I hear he's supposed to be blind and he'll be passing soon.

Have any of you delt with cancer? How did it effect you? have you ever known anyone with it? if not wanna disscuss it?

My exboyfriend had cancer...

We were only 15, and two weeks after we started dating he was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. I was actually the one who noticed the lump on his neck and told him to get it checked. Had I not insisted he see a doctor, he would have suffocated in his sleep.

He underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and I never left his side. We almost lost him a couple times... Fortunately, he made a full recovery and was declared cancer-free after only a year. He was one of the lucky ones.

I've never felt open to talk about what happened in that year. I just... kind of keep it bottled up inside. Every once in a while I'll flip through my scrapbook and re-read all the newspaper clippings, or look through the photo albums... Nearly four years later, and it's still hard for me to think about.

No one in my entire life has made more of an impact than he did. I am who I am today because of him.

x_x; *hug*

From what I can remember... my aunt Carol had breast cancer, but it was taken away and it was never heard from again.

Cancer doesn't really run in our family, thank God.

my mum had Hodgkins, but that was way before I was born...

though it wasn't Cancer, she died last year of heart failure, or something...i can't actually remember sweatdrop so, that's my biggest worry from now on.

An old good friend of mine's mum had breast cancer, though she got through it amazingly well...she's such a strong woman...though I never see ehr since i grew apart from her daughter...

My Auntie has cancer.
It started off as breast but her doctor told her it wasn't cancer but he got it wrong so now its spread to her bones and organs.
She's having chemo but is on limited time.
I don't think anyone is unaffected by cancer.
sad

Awhiee. I wanna give you all a big hug
But I don't wanna look stupid and hug the computer xP

My mom's best friend got breast cancer. It was devastating when she died. At the time she died, her daughter was 5 months preg and she was living for the birth of her first grandson. That was the worst ):

My grandfather died of lung cancer. I was too young to even remember him. My grandma died about a year ago from cancer as well. ;-; She was my greatest role model and even thinking about it today makes me want to cry. I visited her grave recently and it made me sick to realized that I won't see her for a long long time...that she's actually gone. Now my other grandmother is slowly dying from breast cancer.
It makes me so sad that there is nothing I can do and that so many people are suffering from it.
It's almost like the new black plague and I can't stand it.
Also my aunt has some kind of cancer now too. I'm worried I'll get it too but I don't even care about that right now honestly. I shouldn't worry about that while people around me are dying should I?
I'm mad that there's no cure but I'll still keep praying that they'll find one soon. I don't want to lose anymore of my family becuase it hurts so much I don't know if I can stand it if it happens again.