Stage 4 Cancer

dav1965

I beat it who else has. Also do you have a lot of problems from it.

soop

Congrats,you are a lucky man! I've never had it at any stage,but have been watched for it for 25 years.Every biopsy,another scare wondering if you have a future and waiting for the dreaded news.I cannot imagine what you have been through.

FrancF

Wife cousin was just diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer at 67. He has 0 chance on fighting it. He is diabetic with one kidney that was a transplant. He has about a month.

dav1965

Sorry to hear that it is a nasty beast.

mark christian

My mother is a retired RN who spent 20 years working in Oncology and during that time she worked with many hundreds of stage 4 patients. The numbers of those stage 4 patients who survived your particular cancer could meet in a single hospital ward.

Don McManus

You inspire me, Dave, and I thank you for the time you spend relating your challenges and victories over those challenges to us.

Cancer killed both of my grandparents on my father's side, my father, and my grandmother on on my mother's side. Knowing what you have gone through and how you continue to triumph has changed my attitude as to how I will approach the news when the inevitable is related to me. I currently get 20+ non-cancerous and pre-cancerous (whatever that means) polyps removed from my large intestine every year. Total removed is 200+ to date, and my mortality stares me in the face every year.

I face the test results with a 100% different attitude now as compared to just a couple of years ago, and am a much better (I think) person after knowing how you have handled your challenges.

Honestly, I cannot thank you enough.

Don

JimmyJack

I did, it will be two years in January.

JamesRK

I've often wondered how spanielsells made out with his tongue cancer. He was about to start construction on his dream house and things were starting to break well for him when he was diagnosed. Then he disappeared.