Hi there Loulou I have been posting on this site for a couple of years now and not many days pass without me at least looking around. I agree with you it is wonderful to have somewhere that feels right for writing and sharing what we as cancer sufferers/patients/survivors - or whatever we want to call ourselves - feel or think at any one time. Your post was not too long. H ... View more

The primary cause of the rise in colorectal cancer amongst young people is clearly peer group pressure. But you won't get the scientific community admitting that. No way. They are all in hock to the major pharmaceutical companies and won't report any explanation of cancer that threatens their market share. And now I know what she meant when my mother held a spoon right in front of my face and yelled at me: "Eat this!" H ... View more

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Lots of things, none of which are in conflict with this list at all. H ... View more

I remember that same moment. For me it had a lot to do with how I saw myself and not a lot to do with physics and chemistry. I remember the realisation that whatever the doctors said or did or planned to do I was the one who would be living with it. If I live for fifty years I am living with it. If I die next week I am living with it, too. I am a survivor, whatever happens. It was a very empowering moment because it took my existence right outside the medical domain and placed it with me, where I could define it and shape it. They could get on with their physics and chemistry. That was not what i was about. H ... View more

Hi Richard Thanks for posting. I do not think I have heard of a more extensive list of cancerous afflictions in one family. My own is pretty free of it and somehow I have got multiple myeloma. I have lots of space around me in my family, but I dare say you would be butting up against other cancer experiences all the time. I think that would be exhausting, if nothing else. H ... View more

And for a book called 'It's not about the bike' there sure is a lot of grandstanding about being a sporting here. I found it to be quite deceitful. ... View more

Hi again wren No need to stick to medical stuff here. Sometimes I come on and just write for the sake of it. Often I have no intention of addressing some medical question or other. I find this a good place to be me because everyone reading will understand what I'm doing. Good luck for the next bit. H ... View more

Good on you, Jules. Reading your response I did notice the assuredness in your language compared to the first post. That is surely a good sign for you. All the best. H ... View more

Isn't it interesting how we can all see things so differently. The Lance Armstrong book really got up my nose. I found his aggression quite off-putting and I wonder what effect it has had on the community outside cancer. I think he encourages a view that one must 'fight' cancer and 'win' some kind of 'battle'. Jane McGrath's pre-recorded final words were sadly full of that sort of rubbish. At one stage he says 'Cancer sure picked the wrong body' or words to that effect. Really, Lance? You were not kidding me one little bit. Anyway, Sally Jenkins wrote the book. (That was me being a bitch.) H ... View more