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To: stm

“...the cancer, which is terminal but treatable...”

WTF?


28 posted on 09/20/2007 12:33:20 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Panzerlied

Terminal means you will have it when you die, which will happen sooner than if you didn’t have it.

Treatable means that the effects of it can be lessened or delayed; it specifically does NOT mean “curable,” which would be mean that the cancer and its effects are completely ridded from the body.


31 posted on 09/20/2007 12:39:54 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Panzerlied

I seen that too! Terminal but treatable? Huh?


41 posted on 09/21/2007 4:42:59 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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