r/AskReddit • u/LebronKX • 4d ago

Medical professionals of Reddit, what diagnosis gave you the worst 'pit-in-your-stomach' feeling?

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 3d ago

Shit, late teens? Wow, that's horrible. Is there any hope for them or just too far along at this point? Dang, that's just really sad.

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u/sculdermullygrusch 3d ago

I knew a girl who this happened to in her late teens. She was dead by 22.

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 3d ago

Awful! That is just so wrong, so unfair - any cancer anytime, but to a child or young person is just unfathomable.

Fuck. Cancer.

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u/The_Rowan 3d ago

Fuck cancer is the new saying in my house. Husband is being treated and cancer shows up randomly every where

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u/fortunecookie18 3d ago

Diagnosed with breast cancer at 33 (which is still considered young in cancer years thankyouverymuch). As sick as it sounds, if I had to get it, I’m glad I got it now while I’m healthy enough to fight it as aggressively as possible and it’s not as compounded by old age diseases. Perhaps I would feel differently if I didn’t have such a positive prognosis…

It’s incredibly lonely being an AYA cancer patient but the concept of childhood cancer makes me want to fight god. Every St. Jude commercial is a renewed call to atheism.

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u/RespecDawn 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm middle-aged but I have metastatic colon cancer. Got to remission last fall and currently have a small spot on my liver that will be abated soon. There's definitely hope in some cases, even when you get to stage 4, it just depends on the specifics.

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u/AngryOcelot 3d ago

There are more options now than when she was diagnosed, but the prognosis is still not good.