Cancer scares the crap out of me, I know so many people who got aggressive cancer like this including one who had a brain tumor that killed him in only 2 weeks. From diagnosis to death, 2 weeks. Just one day he started getting confused about things and that was it. Two others I know died within a month of diagnosis, aggressive lung cancer. It’s 2022 and still this crap goes on. I know they’ve made a lot of progress in treatment, but come on, the main treatment is exactly the same as 100 years ago? Poison and radiation?
There are some really fast cancers. We never realized how fast until we had the technology to see it happening in near-real time.
Treatment has made substantial progress. Some cancers that were always lethal can now sometimes be stopped, if not cured. And some that were often fatal are seldom so, now. But the old methods are still the most prevalent.
The thing is…cancers like that had been growing for a long time. Many cancers will grow—unabated—until they “run into something.” By that time, it’s often too late. Symptoms in hindsight are “obvious” many of the times. But we simply dismiss them.
I am sorry about your friend. It is an all too common story. The only takeaway is to live life like tomorrow isn’t coming.