My brothers girlfriend was only 21 & woke up & saw a lump in her throat. She went to the doctor & it turned out to be cancer... I forgot what kind but she caught it early & had chemo for 6 months. She actually looked good rocking a bald head... like the perfect shaped head... didn't even look sick it looked like she was just going for that look. It's been 2 years & it hasn't returned but they said if it doesn't come back in 5 its a good chance it won't...
I had another friend earlier this year who woke up with 1 testicle bigger then the other. Went to the doctor & was diagnosed with Stage 4 testicular cancer. He was a very spiritual dude, graduated from Ohio University, never spoke bad about anyone, always was positive no matter what.
He had just placed his first Single on an artist named Jayme Dee. He also had just gotten offered a record deal as an artist from Columbia Records & had just come back from overseas working with Rihanna in London. He was also very healthy, had never been sick & didn't eat meat & worked out 3 times a week. During the surgery his body had a bad reaction to the anesthesia and the cancer spread to his lungs collapsing one. He was on a machine for a week & went through personal hell.
He was upset at God... didn't understand how he could be facing death after living a good life so far with so much good happening for him & so much to look forward to. His body wasn't fighting the infection in his lungs... he eventually came to peace with what was about to happen to him & said he no longer blamed God because he lived a good life & got to experience a lot. He passed away because his body wasn't able to fight the infection... it's the only questionable death I've ever experienced. Most people who die it's something you can say about them whether it was that they weren't living right, were unhealthy, bad karma, wrong place wrong time, etc, but his death really bothered me at the time.
The only thing that was positive about any of it is he died exactly a year from when he signed his publishing deal with Universal, had some placements, got to live the LIFE in Hollywood & got offered an artist deal the month before he passed... so at least you can say he got to live his dream before he left... I'm kinda tearing up just writing this cuz he was really a good dude with so much promise...
He was only 23...