When someone hears those words, you have cancer, her world is turned up-side-down, in more ways than one. As is her family’s. I won’t say a cancer diagnosis is necessarily the most horrible thing any person can experience, medically speaking or otherwise, but it’s right up there, that’s for sure.
Once a cancer reaches stage 4, it’s not curable. Treatable, yes. Curable, no.
This is not to say staying positive and fighting hard do not matter. Of course, they do. But cancer outcome is not determined by how hard you fight or how much smiling you do. Cancer isn’t an opponent in some war game you can stomp out with mindset or determination. And a positive attiude—not always doable. Cancer patients don’t need the added pressure to always fight and always stay positive. What does that even mean anyway? It sounds exhausting because it is.
Lynch Syndrome Ireland 