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My friend with ovarian cancer? She died. [more inside]
posted by BlahLaLa on Oct 4, 2018 - 66 comments

It's been a rather crappy past decade for me.. Wife passed away in '09 as y'all well know, diagnosed with T2 diabetes and stage 4 kidney cancer last June, surgery to remove a kidney and tumor last September, and ongoing chemo to reduce the metastasis in my lungs, and I'll eventually need surgery to rebuild my left shoulder due to a bone lesion. Through all this - y'all have been the most kind, caring, considering, and just gently awesome folks I could ever as for. Even when I'm having a really crappy day, I end up reading something on here, or talking to a MeFite on twitter (I'm @mrbill) that just makes me smile and cheer up a bit. So, in short, I'm all schmoopy right now.. thank you. Thank you Matt, Cortex, Jessamyn, and all y'all.
posted by mrbill on Apr 17, 2018 - 55 comments

Felicity Rilke, known to the greater world as Alicia Merchant, has passed away. [more inside]
posted by SassHat on Nov 17, 2014 - 125 comments

Damn, I really loathe the "lost their battle to cancer" cliche. This thread. So as to not derail the Joe Fraser thread even more, I thought this might be an appropriate place to sort this one out. Apologies if this is considered incorrect use of Meta. [more inside]
posted by adamvasco on Nov 8, 2011 - 116 comments

Congrats to scody for finishing up her chemo! [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Apr 23, 2011 - 173 comments

Help me find an old post about people in the late 60s I think that had an increased risk of cancer as a result of travelling through areas affected by US nuclear tests.
posted by lazaruslong on Jun 24, 2010 - 9 comments

The lying about having cancer thread. I'm responding here. [more inside]
posted by meerkatty on Nov 11, 2009 - 192 comments