Let's stop "fighting" cancer!!

riverhorse

It seems that every obituary or commentary on cancer refers to the patient's lost battle with cancer.  Suppose it said -- "Suzi Q sucumbed to breast cancer after all the medical treatments available at this time failed her. "   People don't "lose their battle"  that would assume they had a chance to win.  Medicine has failed to find a cure.  

I wish the lingo would stop making it seem as though if a patient just fought harder she might win.   I am not a warrior, I am a person with a disease that doctors treat and that research should be working to eliminate.  No matter how hard I try, follow all medical advice, exercise, don't drink, take my medicine as directed, I could still die of this disease.  And if I do I don't want it said that "she lost her battle."   I would rather it said "treatment failed" which would be the truth.

CameraKim

Well said! Thank you for posting this. 

PhyllisCC

We don't fail... We try... and the medicine cannot find what we need.