• ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world
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    This feels so familiar. Coming from a poor rural education to being involved in the latest cancer research I feel like I have personally experienced these paradigm shifts. Well done xkcd for illustrating it

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      The advances in cancer research and treatment in the last 40 years is crazy too.

      In grade six (80s) I lost one of my cohorts to leukemia. It was a long road for her to her passing, with the stereotypical no hair and sick every day looking worse and worse.

      My neighbor’s grade 6 kid has a friend with leukemia and now they’re “just” sick “every once in a while” because they had chemo the previous day and they’re supposed to avoid sports, but is expected to be fine before they go to high school. Wild.