Your second account shows your .....how can I say it tactfully....your imagination.
No oncologist would ever tell someone with NHL that they are ‘cured’. There is no cure.
Your wife had chemo for breast cancer that is specifically targeted for breast cancer. The chemo causes other cells to mutate and the result for breast cancer patients is the development of another type of cancer with 5-7 years.
Each of us develop about 2000 cancer cells every day and they are kept in check by our immune system. When women undergo specific chemo for breast cancer their immunity is lowered allowing other cancer cells to grow or spread.
Going back to your friend, if he was initially diagnosed at a later aggressive stage of the disease then intensive chemo can arrest the disease and cause it to go into remission but it can come back more virulent than before. If caught in early stages of the disease then the aggressive form will never develop as long as the person has the right genotype and is treated early.
FDT has an early form that is slow-growing. He is one of the fortunate ones.
Maybe no oncologist you know, but you see I was in the room when her doctor told her that the tests had all come back clean and she was free of the cancer and should expect to live out her normal allotment of years(pretty much the same words Fred used today in the Cavuto interview). Needless to say we were ecstatic. She left the office consumed with tears of joy. 9 month later the same doctors told her the cancer had spread throughout her body. Again she left the office in tears, but of a totally different type. 4 month later I was burying her, so please don't be so condescending with your comment on my imagination.
As for my friend he was told that his disease was in remission and that he had a 75% chance of living a full life. He was dead in 6 month.
You are right there is no cure for cancer. As a college biology student I worked as a research assistance on some cancer studies so I am not some uninformed bumpkin. I have lost a grandmother, father, wife(her grandfather and an aunt) and a friend to cancer, I know there is no cure and that is what concerns me about Fred, Rudy and John. I hope Fred does not have the same type of NHL that my wife had, and that he and the others live to be 90, but don’t insult my intelligence by insinuating I imagined what my wife and I went through.