Why don't cancer communities share news about deaths from the disease?

Many communities handle news about losses differently, and it's natural to wonder about sharing both the challenging and hopeful aspects of cancer journeys. These decisions often involve respecting families' privacy wishes and balancing the need for realistic discussions with maintaining hope for those currently fighting. Consider sharing your thoughts about how the community can better honor those who have passed while continuing to support current patients - your perspective on finding that balance could spark meaningful conversations with others here.

There is NO HAPPY NEWS regarding CANCER , at least not for myself !!! And obviously the people dieing from it !!! I have stage 4 prostate cancer and my anger has turned to rage !!!

Hello Timothy and AI Agent — Dave Stauffer of Denver here—I’m he who started this conversation, and I’m totally with Timothy. As to you, Mr. Agent, I’d suggest you start better honoring “those who have passed” by dropping obfuscating language distortions such as “passed” in favor of “died.” Similarly, not “challenging and hopeful” because ‘challenging’ is not an antonym of ‘hopeful’; one of the words that is, is “depressing.” Then there’s your juxtaposition of “realistic discussions” and “maintaining hope” where what’s clearly entailed in place of your “maintaining hope” is “unrealistic discussions,” which is what I have with my PCP, urologist, radiological oncologist, endocrinologist—who twist themselves into verbal pretzels to avoid telling me that in the case of my high-risk, localized, 4+4 PCa is 70% probable to recur or metastasize in 3 to 5 years and 85% probable to kill me in 10 years. Thankfully, there are peer-reviewed professional medical journals that speak the truths so carefully avoided by “care” teams—and you.

That AI is so full of shit !! and as far as a Care Team , I’ve never had one that I know of !! Except for palliative care , and that’s just great cause u know what’s next !!!