My grandpa has 4 different cancers

bfguitar · New User Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

hi im new here and dont know much about cancer so please inform me of each type of cancer.

Its official. My grandpa has been diagnosed with prostate cancer on top of melanoma, leukimia (which he haas had for 20 years and for some reason is still alive), and now they found something in his colon.

Im afraid he only has a few years left. Its a terrible way for a tough holocaust survivor like him to go.

Im going to visit him soon and talk to him. Im going to try and get the full story of his experience in aushwitz and other places. I dont want his story to go with him to the grave.

trishpm

None of us know how long we have to live, and it is important that we hear the stories of the older members of our families. I wish that I had done that, but I was too young when they died to realize what I was losing. I have visited auchwitz, and the story of anyone who was there will be well worth listening to and preserving. You might try audio or videotaping him as he tells his story, if he will agree. I have an audio tape of my husband's grandmother, who was 95 at the time, telling about her girlhood in northern Vermont, and major events, such as when women got the vote. Another realtive who spent time in a Russian prision camp during World War II has a wonderful story of walking across Russia to Iran, then rejoining the Polish army to fight at Montecassino. Too many people who have had these experiences never speak of them again, and it is our great loss if they are lost.

Do not assume that you will lose your grandpa soon if all his cancers have been in control or early stage. Second and subsequent primary cancers tend to be discovered in their early stages during followup checks for the previous cancer, and tend to be discovered in early stages. My sister has had three primaries, kidney, thyroid and lung cancers, and ten years after her first cancer diagnosis, and two years after her last, she has no evidence of disease and is running her own business.

If there are other members of your family with cancer diagnosed early, in more than one generation, and like your grandfather, more than one primary cancer, you might want to consider talking to a genetic counsellor about your family history.

trishpm

None of us know how long we have to live, and it is important that we hear the stories of the older members of our families. I wish that I had done that, but I was too young when they died to realize what I was losing. I have visited auchwitz, and the story of anyone who was there will be well worth listening to and preserving. You might try audio or videotaping him as he tells his story, if he will agree. I have an audio tape of my husband's grandmother, who was 95 at the time, telling about her girlhood in northern Vermont, and major events, such as when women got the vote. Another realtive who spent time in a Russian prision camp during World War II has a wonderful story of walking across Russia to Iran, then rejoining the Polish army to fight at Montecassino. Too many people who have had these experiences never speak of them again, and it is our great loss if they are lost.

Do not assume that you will lose your grandpa soon if all his cancers have been in control or early stage. Second and subsequent primary cancers tend to be discovered in their early stages during followup checks for the previous cancer, and tend to be discovered in early stages. My sister has had three primaries, kidney, thyroid and lung cancers, and ten years after her first cancer diagnosis, and two years after her last, she has no evidence of disease and is running her own business.

If there are other members of your family with cancer diagnosed early, in more than one generation, and like your grandfather, more than one primary cancer, you might want to consider talking to a genetic counsellor about your family history.

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