My grandfather was 101 when we lost him last September. His heart did stop.
He didn't have the strength to walk the last three months. No cancer.
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From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]>
To: "'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'" <[email protected]>
Subject: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert
Date: Thu, May 22, 2025 2:13 PM
If you live long enough your heart will quit. If your heart stays healthy long
enough, you're eventually going to get cancer. And yeah, we're better at
identifying specific cause of death than we used to be.
If someone in 1960 keeled over and had no bullet holes in him, then what cause
of death was recorded? I can't begin to guess the answer to that, but I'll bet
the coroner in 1960 had a hard time guessing too.
From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Ken Hohhof <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2025 1:19 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert
My personal belief is that most men over 50 have prostrate cancer, what matters
is how aggressive it is. For awhile the medical profession went crazy with
PSA tests. Based solely on a blood test, they would offer you the choice of
surgery or radiation.
Bill is exactly correct. If you are diagnosed with non aggressive prostrate
cancer at age 75, something else is likely to kill you first. Let’s face it,
we’re all going to die of SOMETHING. Or maybe they just say “natural causes”.
Go back far enough and they just didn’t talk about cancer, it was taboo, so
someone died but it wasn’t cancer because they wouldn’t say the word.
It’s like the supposed “epidemic” of autism. More like better and earlier
diagnosis.
From: AF <[email protected]>
On Behalf Of Bill Prince
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert
Certain cancer rates for younger folks are up (e.g. colon cancer). That one's a
mystery.
However, longer life expectancy increases the odds of cancer later in life too.
There is also better screening, so that is an unknown in terms of what the
actual "rate" is.
We had a friend who was diagnosed with prostate cancer when he was around 75.
Doc told us, the prostate cancer was not going to kill him. Sure enough, he
died almost 20 years later at the ripe old age of 94, and no, the prostate
cancer is not what got him
in the end.
bp
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On 5/22/2025 8:56 AM, Dev wrote:
Is it just me or does it seem like cancer rates are rising? You’d think with
enough smart people in enough rooms, we’d have solved this by now.
On May 22, 2025, at 6:24 AM, Cameron Crum
<[email protected]> wrote:
I know I'm not the only Dilbert fan in the group, but this is kind of sad.
Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, announced on May 19,
2025, that he has metastatic prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. He
stated that he expects to live only "months" and "sometime this summer," and
that he is in constant,
"intolerable" pain, requiring a walker to move around.
Adams revealed his diagnosis on his YouTube show, "Real Coffee With Scott
Adams," after former President Joe Biden's office announced that Biden also had
prostate cancer. Adams said he decided to share his own health news to "slide
under" Biden's announcement
and deflect some of the public attention. He also mentioned that he had been
keeping his diagnosis private to avoid becoming "just the dying cancer guy."
He stated that he has had time to process the diagnosis, get his affairs in
order, and say his goodbyes. As a California resident, he also referred to the
state's End of Life Option Act as "an option."
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