Pancreatic cancer is typically found when it is too late to operate to remove it. If you find it in an early stage and it’s operable your chances are really good. If you find it, because you are symptomatic when it’s inoperable, you usually have less than two years. Like I said, most are found late, and it’s a death sentence. I’ve never heard of any miracles happening regarding inoperable pancreatic cancer. Sometimes people live a year longer than expected, but it’s not good.
Ovarian cancer is also usually death sentence, because it is typically found too late.
Melanoma, I type of skin cancer, is too often deadly. If found in time, before it moves to other organs, it can be cut out. The cut is quite deep and often is somewhat disfiguring, or at minimum a big scar.
Breast cancer is a miserable cancer if you go through the chemo. The particular chemistry for breast cancer is pretty brutal. Hair loss, stomach upset. They are using the chemo less often now. The radiation harms blood vessels. It’s not as bad as 40 years ago when the radiation often caused heart problems within ten years, now that’s not typically the case, but it still does cause some damage. If the breast cancer has spread, it often goes to the lymph system, or bone, and then eventually brain. It’s miserable. When caught early it can often be removed surgically and no other treatment needed.
Most cancers suck, let’s face it. Some move very slowly, and all sorts of time to catch it and treat it. Some cancers are incredibly aggressive.