I did not get the feeling that Rush Limbaugh was speaking like it is being portrayed in this article. He made the baseball analogy that he was rounding second and had to scurry and slide back to the base but is firmly on second base. He also stated at the start of his treatment his outlook was very dim or extremely bleak but now there is a fighting chance.
“A fighting chance” means a fighting chance to live another year.
There are some cancers that don’t even show until it’s too late to do much about them. My dad had stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma. He lived 11 months after diagnosis, and the treatment to allow him to live ths was pure hell.
Rush is trying to prepare people. Take him seriously.