Woman with eight sequential cancers and eight successful treatment regimens ... well, I am very pro-life over the whole span of an individual’s lifetime but at some point shouldn’t a person start to wonder if God is calling him/her back home? And feel no guilt over the multi-millions this is costing (no doubt other patients are being denied treatment and medical insurance premiums are skyrocketing for thousands). I could not live with that knowledge.
I have lost several close relatives to cancer when they were too young.
But I thought that medical science established a long time ago that if we lived long enough, maybe the late 80s or early 90s, most of us would die of cancer. Our body parts just wear out.
I’ve survived cancer twice, and I’m not ashamed. If I survive it a hundred times, I won’t be ashamed.
Recurrent cancers in the same person are likely due to one of three factors:
1) That person has a mutation in a tumor suppressor gene, or a gene that is required for DNA repair or immune surveillance;
2) The radiation therapy or chemotherapy used to treat the previous cancer caused DNA mutations that promoted the secondary cancers;
3) Specific exposures that contributed to the first cancer contributed to the subsequent cancer (e.g. smoking, radon, and other carcinogens etc..).