Quote (Thor123422 @ 1 Sep 2020 02:21)
You don't live with stage 4 cancer for years. In most cases you don't even live with it for one year.
In this generality, that's just wrong. Any cancer that has metastasized to distant organs is classified as stage 4, and some few forms can be kept in check for quite some years with state-of-the-art treatment - even if they cant be fully cured, as seems to have been the case with Cain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain#Health_and_deathQuote
In 2006, Cain was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer and metastases to his liver and was given a 30 percent chance of survival. Cain underwent surgery and chemotherapy following the diagnosis, after which the cancer was subsequently reported to be in remission
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/docs-herman-cains-cancer-is-not-disqualifying-83826/Quote
Herman Cain was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in March 2006. “I had it in my colon and my liver — stage IV,” the GOP presidential candidate said in a speech last year. “And to quote my first surgeon: ‘That’s as bad as it gets.'” His second surgeon gave him a slightly rosier outlook, telling Cain: “You have a five percent chance of even being alive three years from now.”
At the time, the pessimism was warranted. “Five or six years ago stage IV colon cancer was a lethal disease,” says Luis Diaz MD, an assistant professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins. But Cain took advantage of cutting-edge advances in surgery and chemotherapy — treatments that have since become standard — to aggressively treat the disease over the course of nine months. He underwent two rounds of chemo and a six-and-a-half hour surgery that removed 30 percent of his colon and 70 percent of his liver.
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