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Why do they say ''He or She LOST their fight with Cancer''?
How could they say they lost the fight with cancer. Some cancers you can't control and they're almost impossible to beat yet they say ' they lost their fight with cancer' as if the person let them down. The person had no control over it. They can't force themselves to live if the cancers out of control, so why do they say that?
cancer can not kill you as long as immune system soldiers fighting the cancer cells and not giving the chance to form a tumor and spread but when the cancer cell begin to replicate and spread around the body then we attack cancer cells with chemotherapy or surgery assasination on the tumor but sometimes even after doing that some cells are adapted to the treatment and thats how the battle is lost.
notalonewithcancer
Because we are fighting the battle OF our lives and FOR our lives. When the cancer consumes us, we lose our fight. But until the cancer totally takes us over, we continue to fight to stay alive. I plan on fighting it til my last breath.
Mo.
Having cancer is a struggle, a fight, a battle… And in the end when someone passes on they’ve lost the fight… The cancer beat them. That’s the best way I can describe it.
Hope this helps – Mo
Double Diamonds
No one gives in to the dreadful disease, so in effect, it is a fight, even sometimes at the end when it is a fight just to breathe.
Yes, after my mother lost her fight, and she was oh so very brave, I would say that she lost her fight with cancer. She tried to always get that extra day, to see that one person one more time.
Simmi
I think that a lot of people see dealing with cancer as a battle, so if the person dies, then they lost the fight. My father, mother and husband died of cancer. I have cancer now. I don't feel my family let me down, nor am I trying to let the family I have left down. I think you are reading too much into this.
hazel2000
Thanks for asking this question, because I was thinking of asking a similar one - Like why are people always battling cancer. It makes them seem to be superman or woman. When I had cancer (I may still have it floating around somewhere-I haven't reached the 5 year mark yet)-I sure didn't feel like I was the one doing the battling!!
S155
From the moment of diagnosis we are faced with a battle against Cancer. When we put ourselves through surgeries and a multitude of treatments...we are fighting for our lives. And I think I prefer "they lost their fight with cancer" as opposed to "the cancer won" or "the cancer beat them".
Panda
When someone is taking treatment to shrink or destroy their cancer either with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or experimentals . . they are indeed fighting for their lives . . when the cancer resists that treatment and gains control than the person is losing their fight to stay alive . . the cancer is winning and when they die . . they have lost their fight with cancer. And, you are wrong about the control part . . people chose to have treatment are 'fighting' the cancer . . when the treatment fails . . they lose the fight with cancer.
Sexy Chica
Because its sometimes easier to say that then, they died of cancer. Nobody likes to share the news of death in their family or about friends. I see your point, but please try not to take it personal. People just say that as a way to make it easier for the person hearing the news. My stepdad died from cancer in 2000. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to see. And he did fight hard. I am sorry that you lost someone to cancer.
lo_mcg
While I sympathise with what others have to say here, I detest 'fight' and 'battle' metaphors when it comes to cancer. A number of reasons, the main one being the implied criticism of those who didn't make it - did they not 'fight' hard enough?
I didn't 'fight' my cancer, my doctors did, and they did a bloody good job, as four years on from being diagnosed with an aggressive and late stage cancer I'm fit and well with no evidence of cancer at my last check up.
Nobody talks about 'fighting' heart disease, or 'fighting' a stroke, this terminology is reserved for cancer. Why? It's the stereotype of the 'brave' cancer 'victim', a stereotype I find patronising in the extreme. If I had chosen to have cancer in order to spare a child having that cancer, THAT would have been brave. Coping with cancer because that's what you've got isn't brave - you have no choice.
There is also no evidence that 'being positive' or having a 'positive mental attitude' helps fight cancer - that it does has become received wisdom and people quote it as if it's a proven fact. It isn't, and actually there's some evidence that it doesn't make any difference. This report in the British Medical Journal explodes the theory that a 'fighting spirit' is associated with longer survival from cancer or that 'hopelessness and helplessness' means poorer outcomes. The researchers analysed existing studies from1979 onwards; their conclusion is:
'There is little consistent evidence that psychological coping styles play an important part in survival from or recurrence of cancer. People with cancer should not feel pressured into adopting particular coping styles to improve survival or reduce the risk of recurrence.'
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7372/1066
I know from experience that urging a cancer patient to 'stay positive!' can have a negative effect - it sometimes made me feel guilty, and therefore worse - because I just COULDN'T feel as positive as people were urging me to be.
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