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The Internet · Mar 23, 2006, 04:13 AM

cancer or aids

wallinbl · Mar 23, 2006, 05:26 AM

AIDS - it's at least somewhat avoidable. Yes, you can get it through a transfusion, but you can largely avoid exposure. Cancer can hit anyone.

This is not to minimize the impact of AIDS - there are people that are devastated by AIDS. In some developing nations, the people don't even believe the aid workers when they tell them it's transmitted through sex, so they keep right on doing it. Due to its ability to spread, it can have a huge impact on a given community.

However, for me personally, cancer is more of a concern because I can avoid AIDS.

wdlove · Mar 23, 2006, 10:32 AM

As a nurse, my comment would be that neither is best. There is no cure to AIDS, medications are loosing effectiveness. Cancer is one that not many out live either, talking the 5- 50 year survival rate.

Cody Dawg · Mar 23, 2006, 10:41 AM

You can be more prone to cancer when you get AIDS.

I say cancer is better. Skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma for example) can be relatively benign but it's still cancer.

Some cancers now have a very high survival rate and complete cure. Not so with AIDS.

Cancer is better.

wdlove · Mar 23, 2006, 10:43 AM

Tell that to someone that has cancer.

turtle777 · Mar 23, 2006, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by wdlove

Tell that to someone that has cancer.

Why not.

Tell everybody who has cancer "Hey, it could be worse. You could have AIDS"

[back_2_serious]

-t

Dark Helmet · Mar 23, 2006, 04:18 PM

Monique · Mar 23, 2006, 04:36 PM

Cancer as long as it kills me really fast and I can get tons of pain killer.

Spook E · Mar 23, 2006, 05:26 PM

My father has terminal cancer, its the biggest c*nt of a thing and you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy. My grandmother, grandfather and one of my uncles died from it. Three people (that i know of) have it and one woman i work with has just been diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery wednesday.

At least with Aids you know your f*cked, with cancer, theres always something jsut around the corner which might save your life, but your either not eligible or its just out of reach time wise or financially.

trust me, you don't want cancer.

besson3c · Mar 23, 2006, 08:17 PM

This bird almost gave me the bird flu on my way to work this morning, so I took a picture of it so that I can post this picture on signs around town telling people to avoid this bird!

Unless you live in my town you're okay, so no need to worry...

FeLiZeCaT · Mar 23, 2006, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

This bird almost gave me the bird flu on my way to work this morning, so I took a picture of it so that I can post this picture on signs around town telling people to avoid this bird!

Unless you live in my town you're okay, so no need to worry...

That eagle looks really pale.

besson3c · Mar 23, 2006, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by FeLiZeCaT

That eagle looks really pale.

Yes! I think it is a Blue Breasted Eagle, but it must be sick.

demograph68 · Mar 23, 2006, 09:22 PM

Bubonic plague is my favorite.

cjrivera · Mar 23, 2006, 11:02 PM

Best combination of diseases:
A guy with priapism and his girlfriend with nymphomania

Eug Wanker · Mar 23, 2006, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

You can be more prone to cancer when you get AIDS.

I say cancer is better. Skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma for example) can be relatively benign but it's still cancer.

Some cancers now have a very high survival rate and complete cure. Not so with AIDS.

Cancer is better.

Skin cancer can be quite devastating. You're right that basal cell carcinoma can be relatively benign. It is a local disease. It doesn't metastasize. OTOH, something like melanoma can metastasize quite widely.

BTW, survival rates are often measured at say the 5 year mark. Using that as the gauge, then AIDS survival rate could be considered high too with current treatment regilmens, even though we all know that AIDS is a terrible disease.

Spliff · Mar 23, 2006, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

Best combination of diseases:
A guy with priapism and his girlfriend with nymphomania

Spliff · Mar 23, 2006, 11:35 PM

Speaking of diseases and viruses, why aren't there any beneficial viruses? Viruses either kill us, maim us, or make us ill. How come there aren't any viruses that have mutated or evolved beneficial effects?

simonjames · Mar 24, 2006, 12:13 AM

"I contracted the obesity virus when it jumped species from the Caramello Koala "

And if you don't know what this is about...

Virus blamed for obesity epidemic
By Deborah Smith Science Editor
March 18, 2006
AS MANY as one in five Australians may have contracted a virus linked to obesity. Blood tests on 2000 Australians, carried out in the US, showed about 20 per cent of them had been exposed to a virus called Ad-36, which some researchers say can cause weight gain.

The idea that fatness is catching is controversial. However, Richard Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who did the testing, said a fat virus could help explain the worldwide epidemic of obesity.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/virus-blamed-for-obesity-epidemic/2006/03/17/1142582520876.html

Cadaver · Mar 24, 2006, 07:08 PM

I had Stage I classic nodular Hodgkin's lymphoma 3 years ago. 95+% curable with current chemotherapy/radiation therapy combination. If you have to pick a cancer to get, that's the one.

James L · Mar 24, 2006, 09:16 PM

I would have to go with cancer being the worst disease process.... but this is a bit of a misleading thing.

There are over 200 different diseases that we know as cancer... or, put in other terms, there are over 200 types of cancers.

Some much more benign than others, some very, very malignant.

For this question to be more relevant, you would have to compare AIDS to specific types of cancer.

Mind you.... they all suck really. I am not sure why this is even a thread topic.

Cheers,

James