diagnosed with cancer...what's the first thing you'll do?

I'd laugh in the good doctor's face, then demand it in writing & set about proving the bugger wrong! I know too many people who have had these predictions put to them, turned their life around completely & gone on to live & do everything they ever wanted (within reason) & written a book about it even. In all seriousness, this prediction is or would be, a fair estimation based upon you living the rest of those six months the same or similar to what you have been. Such predictions though can have a powerful effect upon people's psyche, especially coming from someone in a position of authority. Cancer is not the end of all things & in many ways can be the beginning of the rest of your wonderful life! Couple this with the miniscule amount the medical profession knows about cancer, its causes & its cures and the pathetic success rates from its prescribed cures & you wonder how they stay in business at all!

I will stay with my parents, cooking for them everyday. It is that simple.

To say I'm sorry and I love you to people that are really important to me, seek for those whom I love and lost contact to say how important they were and to thank them.

Pray :)

I would go out and say goodbye to friends and family. And then i would go out and whatever i want for four months and come back home and spend he remaining time with family.

I've always thought of that. Just because it's possible.. not that I want that to happen! First, I'll cry my eyes out then I'll start making a list of the things that I would do for the remaining time I have left. I think I'll do things that I'll never do or I've been afraid to do. Like tell certain people how much they meant to me or tell the snotballs how much I've hated them(hehe)! Spend my cash on clothes, shoes, bags (my favorite things in the world, haha) Dine out often! Try all the yummy food in the world. If I have the money I would travel to different places. List goes on... doing the things that would make me happy!

I will go home,hug my family and then pray and ask for guidance and help. I will try to seek second opinion and if the same result come out,I will accept my fate with a smile. We will all die anyway,if I die earlier than anyone,it's my time and who can prevent it anyway. All I have to do is enjoy the remaining days of my life and I will not think about it,but keep the most of the rest of it with my family and friends. have a good day jaiho®

I've replied to a similar question months ago and thinking about it now, the only thing that I'd really want to do is the same thing that I do everyday which is getting my kid to school and wait for him until he gets out and then go to the amusement center with him after. Somethings in life are worth than your own wishes before dying and my son is the most important of all.

Cancer is curable as many patients has already survived cancer....what i will do is research.....research...research. What most people do not know is what causes cancer. As far as I know, cancer is the stage that the patient's immune system is totally down, down as in the NK (natural killer) cells are not working anymore to kill the cancer cells. The battle ratio is 1NK cell to kill 1 cancer cell, so if you have 10,000 cancer cells and 1000 NK cells, definitely the patient will die. So research on how the NK cells will be awakened to multiply and overpower the cancer cells. Chemotherapy and radiation kills both the cancer cells and NK cells hence the patient die of pneumonia not because of cancer.

Hi. I would say a prayer. Then I would change my diet and environment. When you think of it, it's easy how one can change his diet and environment to be healthy but we still wait for something bad to happen to our health before we decide to be healthy.

I have heard of a lot of clinics telling cancer patients that they have months to live, only to find out at a different doctor that they can be cured. i would look for more treatment, and I would not believe the doctor. Even if I had to fly to another country for treatment, as many people do, it would be worth it to save my life. In the meantime, I would spend a lot of time with people I love. I don't think I would want them to know I was dying until the very end, though I don't know if I would be able to hide it. I would want to live life as best as I could, while looking endlessly for more ways to get treated.

I felt speechless at first like it is happening to me. Maybe I'd be in denial and cry all the time. I would be frantic and won't know what to do. Then I will slowly accept the reality and move on with life while sharing my last moments with the people who are close to me.

maybe if the doctor told me that i have a cancer perhaps i'll cry at first and if my family is not there i'll probably call them and spend my left months with them.

thinking something not happen is one thing while happened is another,i have seen the response to your discussion that most people think what they will do if diagnosed with cancer,however,if cancer really happen to some people they will change the idea which was thought before. haha, but frankly speaking your topic is a lillte philosophy sence,have a nice day.

That is a very tough question... I think after coming out from the doctors office, I would be in shock and pretty much not be able to do anything at first but digest the news. Then, I would try to take on this disease as best as I can and try to live as long as possible. I have heard of people getting cured in situations like this despite the doctors predictions. That would be my goal, too, I wouldn't want anyone to give up on me... that would be the worst!