As a teenager in the stone-age 70's (damn, I'm old!), I watched the neighbor's dad across the street die of cancer. One day, I asked why he was so thin. The line from my mom that I'll never forget is, "Cancer used to be called the wasting disease." Because it just eats you away until you die, I guess.
As a teenager in the stone-age 70's (damn, I'm old!), I watched the neighbor's dad across the street die of cancer. One day, I asked why he was so thin. The line from my mom that I'll never forget is, "Cancer used to be called the wasting disease." Because it just eats you away until you die, I guess.
Because of that, I've almost always suspected cancer or a bad disease when 40+ y.o. folks that I see regularly start losing weight over long stretches of time. Perhaps I see what I want to see, but they all seem to end the same way.
But maybe the turbo cancers are different. Maybe they eat the vital organs faster than the muscle and fat... I dunno, but I've never seen or heard of cancer killing anyone in a few days or without visible bodily distress.
As a teenager in the stone-age 70's (damn, I'm old!), I watched the neighbor's dad across the street die of cancer. One day, I asked why he was so thin. The line from my mom that I'll never forget is, "Cancer used to be called the wasting disease." Because it just eats you away until you die, I guess.
Because of that, I've almost always suspected cancer or a bad disease when 40+ y.o. folks that I see regularly start losing weight over long stretches of time. Perhaps I see what I want to see, but they all seem to end the same way.
But maybe the turbo cancers are different. Maybe they eat the vital organs faster than the muscle and fat... I dunno, but I've never seen or heard of cancer killing anyone in a few days or without visible bodily distress.
Nor did I until the last two years...