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When I was a kid I watched my grandpa fade away due to Crohn's Disease, a type of cancer that basically eats you alive, by spreading from your bowel to the
esophagus, it was a painful time to my whole family, but especially to me cause my grandpa and I were very close.
A few years later another person really close to me and my family was diagnosed with stage one lung cancer. She was young, and unfortunately a smoker, she stopped smoking and started her treatment, long chemotherapy sessions, I remember how she lost her hair and we bought her scarfs and wigs so she could go out without having many people looking at her as if she was a circus freak. Some people are mean that way. She survived her treatment, she no longer had lung cancer, and went to remission, till one day we got the news that it was back. This time it was a lymphoma, and radiotherapy, chemotherapy again. She fought it for many years, but unfortunately died still young and with so much left unfinished...
I watched them live and I watched them depart this world way too early. Many who read this today will wonder why I am being so morbid, but I just think that awareness is something important, understanding how it works, the possible causes, the types of treatment and so on is part of it. Both of those people I mentioned, who were and are very dear to me, did not pay attention to the signs, did not follow the doctor's requests about their health, maybe if they had, maybe things would have been different. I will leave the link of some foundations's websites where you guys can get more information about.
esophagus, it was a painful time to my whole family, but especially to me cause my grandpa and I were very close.
A few years later another person really close to me and my family was diagnosed with stage one lung cancer. She was young, and unfortunately a smoker, she stopped smoking and started her treatment, long chemotherapy sessions, I remember how she lost her hair and we bought her scarfs and wigs so she could go out without having many people looking at her as if she was a circus freak. Some people are mean that way. She survived her treatment, she no longer had lung cancer, and went to remission, till one day we got the news that it was back. This time it was a lymphoma, and radiotherapy, chemotherapy again. She fought it for many years, but unfortunately died still young and with so much left unfinished...
I watched them live and I watched them depart this world way too early. Many who read this today will wonder why I am being so morbid, but I just think that awareness is something important, understanding how it works, the possible causes, the types of treatment and so on is part of it. Both of those people I mentioned, who were and are very dear to me, did not pay attention to the signs, did not follow the doctor's requests about their health, maybe if they had, maybe things would have been different. I will leave the link of some foundations's websites where you guys can get more information about.
HTTP:
https://www.rogelcancercenter.org/head-and-neck-cancer/head-and-neck-cancer-awareness
HTTP:
https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-awareness-month