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Youtuber Total Biscuit has full blown cancer

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futurefields said:
He does look kind of unhealthy for a 29 year old. Even when dressed up, you can see the physical condition is terrible.

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Wow....he looks amazingly old for 29. He can't be 29. He looks 40+ there.
 
Never heard of this guy. But I had testicular cancer 3 years ago, diagnosed when I was 19. It wasn't much fun.

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TeknoBug said:
it's his fault for not getting checkups.
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to say or imply that getting cancer is ever someone's fault is a pretty insensitive thing to do.
 
lilrayray69 said:
Never heard of this guy. But I had testicular cancer 3 years ago, diagnosed when I was 19. It wasn't much fun.

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to say or imply that getting cancer is ever someone's fault is a pretty insensitive thing to do.
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How the hell did you get testicular cancer at 19? And manage to catch it?

Do you actually do the cancer self checks?
 
NikolaeVarius said:
How the hell did you get testicular cancer at 19? And manage to catch it?

Do you actually do the cancer self checks?
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Got unlucky I guess 😕
I was just in the shower and felt my testicle and noticed a lump on there. I kept checking it for about two weeks hoping it would go away, but it didn't. So I went to a general practitioner who had an ultrasound done then referred me to a urologist, he thought it was likely a cyst but wanted to do surgery to make sure. I woke up from that surgery missing a testicle and he told me it turned out to be a malignant tumor.
3 months after that it spread into the lymph nodes of my abdomen so I had what is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection followed by 2 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy.

I wasn't checking for cancer really when it happened, guess I was just feeling my testicles. Now I check the remaining one all the time though.
 
TeknoBug said:
That's a shame, hope he dodges a bullet with this one, my friend's sister dodged one that was potentially pancrias. Just lost my father to it last summer, although doctors said he probably had it for 20+ years so it's his fault for not getting checkups.

It's usually what you regularly eat (zap food alot in microwave, eat fast food, etc), where you live (near a microwave tower or a manufacturing plant), and if you're an athlete that gets an X-ray more than 10 times a year.
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Your last paragraph is the most ignorant thing I've ever read on the PC gaming forum. And i've seen some gems. This probably takes the cake.
 
StinkyPinky said:
Wow....he looks amazingly old for 29. He can't be 29. He looks 40+ there.
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Not really. He doesn't have very many wrinkles at all. His forehead is just forming wrinkles from raising the eye brows. No age spots or anything. Many people start losing their hair and getting gray in their 20's that has nothing to do with health. It is just in America most people cover that stuff up until they are in their 40's/50's. I had friends in HS that started getting bald before senior year.
 
What makes him look ill in that picture is the inconsistency in his eyes. Humans see symmetry as the mark of beauty and the more symmetrical people are the more people consider them attractive. Due to the facial pose he is using his eyes are very asymmetrical and its this which is making him look unwell. That doesn't mean in this picture he is, its just not a flattering facial pose to be using for a picture.
 
lilrayray69 said:
Got unlucky I guess 😕
I was just in the shower and felt my testicle and noticed a lump on there. I kept checking it for about two weeks hoping it would go away, but it didn't. So I went to a general practitioner who had an ultrasound done then referred me to a urologist, he thought it was likely a cyst but wanted to do surgery to make sure. I woke up from that surgery missing a testicle and he told me it turned out to be a malignant tumor.
3 months after that it spread into the lymph nodes of my abdomen so I had what is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection followed by 2 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy.

I wasn't checking for cancer really when it happened, guess I was just feeling my testicles. Now I check the remaining one all the time though.
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Damn! That is a scary story. If you dont mind me asking how big was the lump on your teste? Was it like pretty easy to notice that there was something abnormal?
 
blackened23 said:
Your last paragraph is the most ignorant thing I've ever read on the PC gaming forum. And i've seen some gems. This probably takes the cake.
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Ignorant? Hes merely reiterating what scientist/researchers have claimed over the years. Nothing ignorant there.
 
I wonder if his american medical company was aware this was a previous condition? Won't be good if he has to got hundreds of thousands of dollars into to debt or maybe they won't even allow certain treatments. Further, if England is like Canada, you lose your "free" healthcare after a while when you move out of country.
 
Northern Lawn said:
I wonder if his american medical company was aware this was a previous condition? Won't be good if he has to got hundreds of thousands of dollars into to debt or maybe they won't even allow certain treatments. Further, if England is like Canada, you lose your "free" healthcare after a while when you move out of country.
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lol that's not how it works. Cancer is always a "pre-existing condition" in terms that it exists before it's diagnosed, like just about any disease. They won't deny treatments if they are standardized for his specific type of cancer. If it's an experimental type, then yeah they can deny that.

In this case he did not neglect to get any regularly recommended screenings that would have caught it. He did seek medical attention with the onset of symptoms, so there's nothing there to allow an insurance company to just drop him (assuming he had insurance). I think he does have insurance, as he said he hit his $5,000 deductible. This means the insurance will pay for everything for the rest of the year except for co-pays.

That's how it worked with me. I was diagnosed on January 3rd 2011 and hit my $3,500 deductible and out of pocket cap very quickly with surgery. So when I had a recurrence 3 months later and subsequently had a major surgery running ~$40,000 and then chemotherapy which was ~$5,000/day I did not owe on any of that. Not to mention numerous blood tests, X-rays, CT Scans, etc.

Also, with this cancer if he had no insurance the debt could easily surpass $1 million.

Dealing with insurance sucks and most people don't learn how it works until they have to go through it themselves, like I did.


JumBie said:
Ignorant? Hes merely reiterating what scientist/researchers have claimed over the years. Nothing ignorant there.
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Oh in regards to this^^, yeah most of what he said has been disproven or isn't supported by research. A conventional microwave does not give off high enough energy radiation to damage your DNA even if you were directly exposed to it. Neither has research ever shown a conclusive link between microwave-cooked food and cancer. Some easy googling will show you that
http://www.mdanderson.org/publicati.../issues/2012-july/foodcancerradiationbpa.html

There could be a link between people eating a high amount of microwaved food and cancer, but that link likely has more to do with the types of food they are eating rather than the microwave cooking of that food (i.e., those who use microwaves more may be those who eat more processed foods more often, etc.) - as they say, correlation does not equal causation.

Same goes for living near a microwave tower or manufacturing plant, unless that plant is disposing of toxic wastes incorrectly.

And the athlete getting 10 x-rays a year thing is ridiculous, too. I'm not sure if athletes even get 10 X-rays per year, but your average X-ray is pretty low radiation and while it does technically raise risk of cancer it's pretty minute. I, for example, being someone who has had cancer once already myself (at a young age, too) still regularly get 3-4 X-rays and 3-4 CT Scans (which have MUCH higher radiation output) per year to check that my original cancer has not recurred and to check that no new primary cancer has manifested. Yes, those scans do increase my risk of getting another cancer (as does the fact I've had cancer once already) but it is a very low increase of risk which is deemed an acceptable risk to monitor that I do not currently have cancer.

You'd be surprised how much the average person does not know about cancer, or how much incorrect information they know. Prior to having it myself 3 years ago I knew next to nothing about it. Now I know all too much. I'm even in a Master's program with a psychosocial oncology specialization and am working as a research assistant in a cancer center (the very same one I was treated at).
 
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Is this the guy who keep raving about Dark Souls being the most "best game eva!"?

That'll teach you, having poor taste will give you cancer.
 
Skott said:
If he had a full head of hair then he would look younger and closer to his actual age I'm thinking.
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The scragily beard, the puffed lips, the moles, the puffed cheeks, the big head, and those swollen eye lids. The dude looks like he's been through the ringer. The balding hair and thinning of what he has left is certainly added to it, but that's not the whole effect.
 
He's just ugly. Big nose, no hair, sharp facial features, and heavy set build. Yes, if he had a full head of hair and spiked it at the front, that would soften up his face. And yes, if he lost some weight, it would help as well. The uglier you are, the older you look.
 
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