DL Doctors and Nurses: a question about how fast cancer can overcome someone

*less than articulate

Kirtie was a life long smoker. That makes a big difference.

Depends on the age and the cancer. Younger cells turn over fast and tumors grow quicker. Old guys with prostate cancer, on the other hand, usually die of something else.

On the other hand, I knew a woman in her 40s who went to the doctor because her stomach was bothering her and was dead from pancreatic cancer four months later. There's no screening for pancreatic.

I saw a podcast video on youtube by an ex-Scientologist who said a high level person like Alley (and I guess Travolta's wife) have to go thru a series of auditing before they can see a doctor. He says they have a high amount of curable cancers that progress during the process to fatality.

In short I don't think you can compare the experience of Alley to yours if you are getting regular checkups.

Friend of my family lost a lot of weight & had abdominal pain - diagnosed with colon cancer.

Dead in 5 weeks.

I had a friend who wasn't feeling well (just flu-like symptoms); went to see the doctor, was diagnosed with liver cancer. Died a week later.

Maybe the rule is, if you're feeling unwell -avoid the doctor as much as you can.

My bf’s father died from chemotherapy that was supposed to cure his very treatable cancer.

Colon cancer is slow growing but the problem is you may not get significant symptoms until it is quite advanced. I’m 43, was diagnosed with it 3 years ago—by which time it had spread to my lungs and liver. I literally assumed all I had wrong was IBS, until I started getting bleeding. Even then I thought I was just being a hypochondriac until I mentioned it in passing to a doctor and she was horrified I hadn’t got it checked.

At the same time, you shouldn’t live your life a nervous wreck, life is too short. You have to enjoy it, but always be cautious if you have any symptoms. I’m too young to have had routine colonoscopies but if you have any doubts you should push for one regardless of age. It’s highly treatable in the earlier stages.

Americans die of preventable cancers all the time, partly because our for-profit health system encourages people to seek out alternative medicine and DIY cures, but also because of our deeply in trenched traditions of faith healing. Scientology, like Christian Science and the anti-vaccines movement, is basically just same old backwoods puritanical horseshit that has been killing credulous Americans for centuries.