how many of you had a mother or father die of cancer? and what kind of cancer was it?

Question

my dad died in 2003 from ORAL/TONGUE/THROAT/ cancer. It also spread to his arteries. He was only 46 yrs old. I was 23 at the time. My sympathies to anyone who's in the same boat as me.

Answer 1

My father smoked for a long time. He developed lung cancer and it spread to his brain. The miracle of it was he was not in pain.

I still miss him.

Answer 2

Ashley: answer: no person knows. What this probably ability is which you are going to have a genetic predilection for many cancers, yet no longer something is assured. What you're able to do (and what everyone would desire to do) is study up on issues that advance the main cancers value. stay away from smoking, particular meals, quite a few nutrition ingredients,etc. workout usually - as in 3 or 4 cases each and every week. Have glass of wine each and each nght with dinner. save your weight DOWN. Do each and everything you are able to to be healthful if youin case you ever do get maximum cancers (or something else). yet understand that all of us die of something, so your concentration on healthful residing now could be plenty greater valuable than each and all the scientific care interior the international later. do no longer worry - make a plan,persist with it and be happy. existence is to be happy for the period of the progression, no longer once you 'get there' on the top.. playstation residing healthful is stable, yet don't be a nut approximately it, ok? All issues carefully. you have already lived far longer than many that have been born when you. be grateful for on a daily basis, my pal.

Answer 3

I have recently lost my father on Feb.1st.2007 of lung cancer, He was 63. He had lost his tongue due to cancer 3 years prior and suffered greatly. He was on tube feedings until the day he died. Morphine was his only escape from pain. I am deeply sorry for you being so young at the time. I'm 37, but my brothers are 27 and 23. It is hard to see; but know they are no longer suffering. My prayers are with you.

Answer 4

My father also died in 2003 - 01/02/03 to be exact. He had adenoid cystic carcinoma. He lost most of his tongue to this cancer and had radiation as well as chemotherapy. He was diagnosed/had his surgery in September of 2001 - 6 months after my husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer... My husband is fine and dandy now, and we have even had a second child since!

I am very sorry for your loss, my dad was 56 and I was 30. You and I and our fathers were all FAR too young to experience this part of life!!!!

Answer 5

I am sorry for your loss. My Dad died February 2006 of lung cancer(BAC). He was a non-smoker. Diagnosed 14 months prior to his death, when he went to the Doctor he thought it was the flu. He was already in stage 4 at that point and it had spread to his bones, liver and finally to his spinal fluid. He was 64 but young for his age, an avid sailor and very active. I was 35. I miss him...

Answer 6

I am 28 years old. My dad 52, just died 2 weeks ago from stage 4 malignant melanoma. He found a mole on his chest in Feb. 05. Doctors thought they got it all. He still went back every 3mo for scans.The scans kept coming back clean, then in Mar. 06, they found a spot on his lung. They controlled that one spot up to the end of Apr.07, with chemotherapy. Then the melanoma got very aggressive from there until he died , new spots came up every day. I'm sorry about your loss, I know now how you fill. It hurts so bad!!! I miss him so much.

Answer 7

My father died of small cell carcinoma (lung cancer) in May 2006, he was 61 and I was 35. It was very difficult for him because it metastasized to his pancreas. He always thought he was going to make it, even in his very last day. He was attending his regular chemos and all that, but on his last day, he had a stroke and he died within the next hours. I miss him. It was very sad. It is still very sad. I didn't have the chance to go to his funeral because I was in America and he was in Mexico when all that happened. I am sorry about your loss too. Life is difficult sometimes uhu?

Answer 8

My dad died in February 2005 of an infiltrating melanoma that had spread pretty much everywhere: lungs, liver, peritoneum walls... He died within 6 months from the first diagnosis...He was 71, not as young as yours, but it was still very difficult for me to deal with it. I still don't think I have dealt with it properly...

Thanks for your sympathy, I need it. The same to you.
Hugs xxx

Answer 9

My mom died April '06. She drove herself to the hospital because she felt "bad". She was diagnosed with large cell cancer that had mastasized to the point they had no idea where it originated from. She died 6 days later. It really was like a bad dream I couldnt wake up from. My father died 2 years earlier of heart disease and I was just coming to terms with that. On his death bed he gave me his blessings to "know" my mother, whom had not raised me. And this I did. For what no one knew was to be her last two years. What a wonderful gift my father gave to me...to really know my mother for the first time in my life. Someone once told me, dont cry because it's over, smile because it happened. How lucky I was

Answer 10

My father died at the age 42 of lung cancer and he suffered horribly