R.I.P.
Well, i watch tis guy for some time=( 

Completely agree with you: fucking politicians and (nuclear) weapons and armor develpoments.

Gods. I used to listen to this guy way back, before he became the cynical brit and he was just a troll mage that worked the Warcraft radio station. Even went boozing with 'im once when he held a meet-n'-greet/get-together/pub-crawl-thingy in Newcastle. How in the hells do I outlive him when I've been chainsmoking since 14, and how in the hells is cancer not a past tense condition? Probably because cancer cures aren't profitable to the pharma's whilst cancer treatments are. Fuck this world :[

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We got treatment for AIDS and HIV, that is no longer an death sentence, why not yet for cancer?

Because it's probably more a matter of detecting it than of having "treatments". And because death is and will remain a part of life.

I'm just sad this guy was struck so young, he was known in the SC2 community. It's just saddening to be reminded that not everyone gets to die in his bed at 75+ years old. Makes me the same effect than when I learnt about Monty Oum.

3 hours ago, The First Lady of Hats said:

Probably because cancer cures aren't profitable to the pharma's whilst cancer treatments are.

Treatments that do not cure are only profitable for a while. Treatments that do cure stay profitable unless even better ones are found. But don't worry, both are extremely profitable to pharmaceutic laboratories...

3 hours ago, The First Lady of Hats said:

How in the hells do I outlive him when I've been chainsmoking since 14

Take this as a message then. Stop smoking, we prefer you writing stories in LL's blog section than in google's necrologic actualities.

Sorry to hear. I lost someone to cancer as well. You can always fold proteins for a cure when you idle your tech.

I watched TB back when starcraft 2 was huge.  I really liked his commentary.  I'll miss his "WTF is" and game reviews.  

Sad to see him go, he was such a big advocate for the consumers and I always liked his WTF first impressions. He'll be missed.

He died at the same age that Jesus Christ is said to have been crucified so he is in good company, I guess.

Honestly, Rest In Piece for him. He was a great guy who loved doing what he did best.

There are just many types of Cancer so it's difficult to cure.

I had one, I can tell.

Also the best way to prevent cancer is to live a healthy life. Eat healthy food, do a bit of sport, and keep a good psychological balance.

It's sad that Totalbiscuit died. I liked this guy !

For a guy who was a massive cynic of everything he put his hands on... he was one of the driving forces for change that brought about a shift towards better gaming for everyone, not just those with beast PC's.

He will be missed by everyone in the industry, even if we don't know him...

RIP John "Totalbiscuit" Bain, you will be missed ?

All cancer treatments are designed to extend life not cure cancer.    Cancer treatment and the associated spinoff  is a 90 billion dollar a year industry employing almost 400,000 people(statistics from 2010) thousands have both their career and livelihood based on this industry

If anyone were stupid enough to come up with a cure that was a one time pill or injection.....their lifespan would be in jeopardy.

8 hours ago, dharvinia said:

All cancer treatments are designed to extend life not cure cancer.    Cancer treatment and the associated spinoff  is a 90 billion dollar a year industry employing almost 400,000 people(statistics from 2010) thousands have both their career and livelihood based on this industry

If anyone were stupid enough to come up with a cure that was a one time pill or injection.....their lifespan would be in jeopardy.

So you mean that when a gastro-enterologist removes a cancerous polyp, a surgeon cuts off a melanoma, or a doctor prescribes radioactive iodine to destroy a thyroid cancer, they're all gonna get murdered in the next weeks ?

10 hours ago, Cema said:

There are just many types of Cancer so it's difficult to cure.

 

I had one, I can tell.

 

Also the best way to prevent cancer is to live a healthy life. Eat healthy food, do a bit of sport, and keep a good psychological balance.

 

It's sad that Totalbiscuit died.

+1

12 hours ago, Tirloque said:

So you mean that when a gastro-enterologist removes a cancerous polyp, a surgeon cuts off a melanoma, or a doctor prescribes radioactive iodine to destroy a thyroid cancer, they're all gonna get murdered in the next weeks ?

Cut, snip, radiation, none of these things is a cure, they are treatments of something that has happened.  These treatments do not prevent cancer, nor can they guarantee it won't return.   What I said if someone invented a cure .     The big money is in treatments.  BTW, there are people who have followed a regime healthy diet, exercise, and as you put it a good psychological balance and have still fallen victim to cancer.  yes, there are treatments, but in reality there is no cure as of yet.  Again you are correct there are many types of cancer, and it have been around for quite some time.  In all that time has even one type of cancer become a thing of the past?   The very best we can hope for is that when we catch it early enough, the treatment will sometimes be permanent.   The very nature of cancer is that by the time you become aware that something is wrong with you. it is usually too late.

  I am not trying to be an asshole here, I am just pointing out something that frustrates me to no end, there is no cure for cancer.

12 hours ago, dharvinia said:

Cut, snip, radiation, none of these things is a cure, they are treatments of something that has happened.  These treatments do not prevent cancer, nor can they guarantee it won't return.   What I said if someone invented a cure . 

What is "cure" then, define "cure".

If your definition of a cure is preventing the onset of an illness, and guarantee it won't return then we have never discovered a single cure in the whole history of humanity.

That being because :

— There is no 100% in the biological field (even for tetanus vaccine, which has the best stats ever is not 100%).

— Curing and preventing an illness are two very different things. For example, tetanus vaccine is an exceptional preventive treatment... yet if you are inoculated with the bacteria while not having vaccinated before it, it won't cure it, and you'll be at risk of dying. Cure ≠ prevention.

12 hours ago, dharvinia said:

Cut, snip, radiation, none of these things is a cure, they are treatments of something that has happened.

As we said before you're confusing preventive treatments with curative cures. PROVIDED EARLY DIAGNOSIS Surgery is the best for many cancers, and in many case the only real one. If at some point of your life you get screened for an tiny cancer, I wish that you get a doctor who understands that the very point of screening a population is early removal of the lesions.

However, even that point put aside :

— Some cancers are very sensible to "medications" if chemicals are the only definition of cure some part of the public would accept. Testis and thyroïd cancer have chemicals that combined to surgery give > 90% of total durable remission even in quite late stages. 

— In melanoma if below a certain deepness, durable remission after surgery is > 95%. >95% of life saved, would you really push that away with a "it's not a treatment" ?

— Some cancers such as lymphomas on young subjects do have good durable remission rates with treatments based mostly (yet not only) on chemotherapy.

— And if your definition is "just like for VIH" then there is one molecule, the glimatinib that gets the "cancer" undetectable in most case of a specific leukemia.

So you see, even with a "general public" definition (americans do have a very suitable expression in that case but I will refrain from using it not to offend you), we have some "cures" for cancer.

12 hours ago, dharvinia said:

 The very nature of cancer is that by the time you become aware that something is wrong with you. it is usually too late.

That is  mostly true. Which is why early detection and surgery are the main treatment currently.

Now, about pharmaceuticals laboratories now wanting to find a "cure", let me debunk that :

— The main (sole ?) objective of laboratories is to make money

— Ineffective treatments do only make money for a while (which is why they are high priced), while effective ones do continue being profitable as long as no better one is found

— So if they all could make treatments such as imatimib, believe it they would : that would be more profitable for them.

=> Only reason for a laboratory wanting profit not to make something most profitable of what they currently do... is because they can't.

12 hours ago, dharvinia said:

 The big money is in treatments.  BTW, there are people who have followed a regime healthy diet, exercise, and as you put it a good psychological balance and have still fallen victim to cancer. 

You're right on this one. Modern pharmaceutics are the big money (though take a look at HCV treatments if you wanna see the real extent of the robbery), and there is no guarantee that a healthy life will protect you from cancer.

But if you think about it, if you prevent someone for lets say dying from a pneumonia at 30, from a bullet in the chest at 40, from an myocardial infarction at 50... then isn't it logical for him/her to develop illnesses that do usually occur later ? That is where the "injustice" is in TotalBiscuit's case, because he was young, way younger than the age where most cancers do appear. That is why his loss feels more acute than if he had lived 80 years of a fully fulfilled life, with a caring wife, children and grandchildren.

One can think what he wants about "progress" or "medecine", but I tell you : the most absolute certitude one will have in life is that he/she will die. No amount of cries, written recriminations, radical votes, or trials will ever change that. And as there is no justice in nature, some will die earlier than others. Medicine is one of the ways to attenuate that injustice, but nature is stronger, and eventually always wins.

12 hours ago, dharvinia said:

  I am not trying to be an asshole here, I am just pointing out something that frustrates me to no end, there is no cure for cancer.

There are some, depending on circumstances ; but is no cure for life and death, Dharvinia, that is what I am trying to tell you. And there will never be. However, i do fully understand that the loss of one might be a very frustrating and painful thing to live. So I'd like to say that I understand your position, and what you're standing for.

9 hours ago, Tirloque said:

That is where the "injustice" is in TotalBiscuit's case, because he was young, way younger than the age where most cancers do appear. That is why his loss feels more acute than if he had lived 80 years of a fully fulfilled life, with a caring wife, children and grandchildren.

This we both agree on, I have lost friends and family to cancer.  It seems as if we are in a war where we take casualties and we have no way to fight back.

9 hours ago, Tirloque said:

There are some, depending on circumstances ; but is no cure for life and death, Dharvinia, that is what I am trying to tell you. And there will never be. However, i do fully understand that the loss of one might be a very frustrating and painful thing to live. So I'd like to say that I understand your position, and what you're standing for

Thank you for your kind words Triloque.  I know that in this exchange I came off looking like the air-headed blond, and I let grief override common sense.

All of what you have said I know to be true.  I love people who can smile when in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Unfortunately, I am not one of those people.
 

59 minutes ago, dharvinia said:

This we both agree on, I have lost friends and family to cancer.  It seems as if we are in a war where we take casualties and we have no way to fight back.

Thank you for your kind words Triloque.  I know that in this exchange I came off looking like the air-headed blond, and I let grief override common sense.

All of what you have said I know to be true.  I love people who can smile when in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Unfortunately, I am not one of those people.

Nor am I. But you were able to step back and reconsider the way you approached that exchange. That's something not everyone is able to.

Also, keep hope : screening/early detection are slowly but surely improving. So in the future, it's possible that we get better weapons to fight that war.  

Thanks for that exchange, Dharvinia.