39.6% of USA Citizens will be diagnosed with Cancer

This includes the ever prevalent with aging basal cell carcinomas, the little (usually) skin cancers that don't do anything other than local damage. For comparison, there are over 4 million cases diagnosed each year while there are less than 250,000 cases of breast ca in the US.

My mom lost her life to Subq Metastatic malignant melanoma. At the time she was diagnosed there wasn't anything they could do and melanoma was hard to treat. I wonder if her odds would have been greatly improved nowadays?

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The low% can be good can be bad. My dad had a 7 % chance of surviving more than 5 years with his type of leukemia. He made it 23. He was lucky. His doctor called him a 5%er. But he was also one of the few rare low percentage people who's Squamous cel skin cancer leaped to his lymph system and he died of it. He thought it was 'funny' that he beat the 'deadly' cancer and was fighting for his life with the usually 'manageable' cancer.

On Oct 1 2015 I was dx with Stage 3 Colon cancer. I am just 43 with no family history or genetic marker( we did a full genitic screening after diagnosis) after the resection, 6 months of chemo and 6 weeks of daily radiation, I am now cancer free! My mediport was just removed on Wednesday of last week and I am looking forward to a long full life. Cancer Sucks and I will always have that worry, but I am also hopeful that this chapter is over and won't be repeated!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm SO happy to hear you're cancer free!  My dad was diagnosed with Stage 3 Colon cancer when he was 50.  Didn't run in the family but he ignored symptoms for a couple of years before he ended up in the ER.  His stage 3 quickly turned to stage 4.  And he passed away on his 51st birthday just 9 months after he was diagnosed.  I get SO excited for anyone that I talk to or read about that has beaten it!!  I'll be 40 next year and while I'm not looking forward to having to do it, I'll be having my first colonoscopy.  

My family has almost no cancer history, I have to go pretty far afield to make a connection. Except for melanoma. At this point in life, I'm expecting is as an eventuality. And while I would never rule out other kinds of cancer, I don't get overly worried about it.

My FIL beat bladder cancer about 5 years ago and this spring was diagnosed with Squamous cell skin that had metastasized to stage IV bone cancer. He had a tumor in his upper jaw. A week ago he had the tumor and most of his left jaw removed and replaced with a bone graft from his fibula. He will have a 6 week radiation course and the Drs say his prognosis is good.

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My mothers side of the family has lost big to cancer. There were 10 children and so far 6 have died due to cancer. Each had a different kind of cancer. I have 30 something cousins from those aunts and uncles and we are all hyper aware and doing more than normal screenings.

I am the only one of the cousins so far to be diagnosed. I was fortunate that mine was diagnosed early and beaten. I had stage 1 ovarian cancer in 2013. I'm the only cancer survivor on that side of the family. From the genetic screening I had done, I also have an increased risk of colon cancer. With that knowledge though we can stay on top of it through frequent screenings.

My mother helped care for all 6 of her siblings during their battle and of course with mine. I pray she is spared anymore heartache with this horrible disease.

The prep is not fun but the colonoscopy is the easy part, best nap in the world!  But it's such an easy way to know so early. I was a freak of nature, no real symptoms, I became anemic and at first thought it was fibroids, then when my hemoglobin went to a 7 they did some testing and the scope and found the tumor. It was 7cm so growing for sometime. Now all my sisters have been scoped and we will do our best to get the kids to do them early when they are adults to.

I was diagnosed on April 4, 2016 with Stage 3 HER2+ IDC Breast Cancer. I have completed chemo and will be having a Bilateral Mastectomy this coming Tuesday, then 4-6 weeks of radiation after that! It sucks but I'll live and that is what is important! HER2+ is aggressive so my diagnosis 10-15 years ago would have been a death sentence!