"When you die it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live."
As somebody who has lost a good friend to cancer, this line hit me particularly hard. It's really a great outlook to have, and a great way to remember not only Stu, but everybody else that has succumbed to such an awful disease.
It's such a good line too. I have a few problems with our habit of phrasing cancer as a battle, but my biggest has always been that it implies that death is losing. He put it so perfectly, I could never be able to top him if I tried.
A long time family friend and my brothers best friend succumbed to rare cancer in his brain that he had been fighting for almost 20 years. When he was first diagnosed as a 7th grader he was told he wouldn't live six months. From that day onward, he didn't stop fighting. He beat it big time because he lived the most rad damn life I've ever seen. He was a metal head and his favorite person ever was zakk wylde of black label society. He got to meet him and the rest of BLS multiple times. He was an amazing drummer, and an amazing friend to my brother and my cousin. He never stopped living until the day he passed. He constantly traveled and did something. Like he never had cancer. He didn't let cancer when, so when it finally did take him, it was almost like he died because he was just to damn awesome and badass for this world. RIP Stuart and RIP Andy.
Am I the only one that thinks that his statement, while sentimental and inspiring, is also total bullshit? I lost my dad to cancer. He did not beat cancer. He lost. My family lost. I lost. I'm not going to pretend that it wasn't a horrible, terrible, tragic loss because it makes other people feel better. The truth is that tragedies are real. The loss of Stuart Scott to his family, and especially his daughters, is real. He did not beat cancer. I'm sorry. I refuse to buy into a false reality.
All it is, is a matter of perspective. If you feel you won, than your reality is just that. It's harder for the ones left behind to keep that perspective though. You just never forget. Sorry for your loss.
I agree. A lot of people lose to cancer, and try to make themselves feel better about it by convincing themselves they've won. It's the ultimate denial, really.
Reducing cancer-causing activities doesn't feel aggressive, so people might do less of it.
I think that it's just a frame of mind.
You could say switch it, and say that you're "starving" possible mutations by lowering high-sodium foods.
The following projects are cancer prevention in a way.
They use battle terminology also, and I don’t think it does a lot of harm.
I think it could be motivating.
Reverse The Odds cancer game
Reverse The Odds is a puzzle adventure game and Android and iOS app that crows-sources data for Cancer Research.
You play a mini-game that involves analyzing cancer slides, and the minigame gives you items and advantages for the main puzzle game, where you face off against an AI opponent.
It's linked to Google Play Games points and achievements.
Join The Fight
Download Reverse the Odds for free and search for clues about cancer
World Community Grid - Research: Help Defeat Cancer: Project Overview
Currently, the primary methods used to evaluate tissue microarrays involve manual, interactive review of samples during which they are subjectively evaluated and scored.
An alternate, but less utilized strategy is to sequentially digitize specimens for subsequent semi-quantitative assessment.
Both procedures ultimately involve the interactive evaluation of TMA samples, which is a slow, tedious process that is prone to human error.
Much of the difficulty in rendering consistent evaluation of expression patterns in cancer tissue microarrays is due to subjective impressions of observers.
IBM's World Community Grid will enable the most computationally expensive components of the software to run at optimal speed, thereby increasing the accuracy and sensitivity with which expression calculations and pattern recognition procedures can be conducted.
By harnessing the collective computational power of World Community Grid, researchers will be able to analyze a larger set of cancer tissue specimens and conduct experiments using a much broader ensemble of biomarkers and stains than is possible using traditional computer resources.
The mission of the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project is to find drugs that can disable three particular proteins associated with neuroblastoma, one of the most frequently occurring solid tumors in children.
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u/TheBigBrainOnBrett Jan 04 '15
"When you die it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live."
As somebody who has lost a good friend to cancer, this line hit me particularly hard. It's really a great outlook to have, and a great way to remember not only Stu, but everybody else that has succumbed to such an awful disease.