Powerful comic at xkcd today.
Occasionally Randall produces novel, visually interesting, crisply communicative graphical displays of information in the webcomic medium. Today's was sobering.
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29 July 2011
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A family friend was just transferred to hospice now that her breast cancer has become brain cancer. Sigh.
Posted by: Christy P. | 29 July 2011 at 09:06 AM
Sorry to hear that. Cancer sucks.
Posted by: bearing | 29 July 2011 at 09:10 AM
And yeah, I know that there are many different kinds of cancer and they're really distinct diseases, so that they hardly all deserve to be lumped together into a single word "cancer," but I am not aware of any that don't suck.
Posted by: bearing | 29 July 2011 at 09:12 AM
...what a 'comic' ---I'll offer prayers for those suffering today
Posted by: priest's wife | 29 July 2011 at 11:35 AM
They deserve to be lumped together as cancer as they share certain traits in spite of the huge range of differences. It's like saying "infectious diseases" - covers a HUGE range of stuff but is not less usable because of that.
Unfortunately the comic is so true. That's one of the things I hate as a nurse (I work in hæmatology) - patients who are finished with their treatment who come in with a tattoo or something and are so proud that they're "cured". I know I'll be seeing some of them again later. :-(
Posted by: Rebekka | 30 July 2011 at 02:32 AM