god i dont miss reddit. these are the exact replies you can expect to see everywhere on everything
average redditor
From what I heard, calling it a fight can be looked down upon because when things dont go well, the person “losing” was just too weak as if it were some kind of personal failing, or that they didn’t do enough to fight it and thats why they died.
In reality its a battle between your body, the cancer, and chemo/drugs third-teaming it and crapping on both. Sometimes it’s just chance that you got cancer, that the treatment didnt work, that you died faster than the treatment could work. There’s little the individual has to say in that other than minimizing their own risk and trying to keep their body as healthy as they can
No reason to be shitting on someone who has recovered like that tho
I kind of feel the same when someone says they “beat cancer’s ass”. Doctors and medical technology kicked cancer’s ass.
I’m a medical student and I’m here to tell you that no amount of medicine, physicians, nor technology will save a patient if they don’t have the personal strength and fortitude to survive cancer treatment. Chemo is literally poison that is carefully dosed out so that it hopefully kills the tumor before it kills the patient. People who are strong enough, mentally, emotionally, and physically, to survive cancer treatment are incredible and claiming otherwise is ignorant and disrespectful.
