[HN Gopher] When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a cl...
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When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it
Author : danso
Score : 62 points
Date : 2025-02-26 18:44 UTC (4 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| danso wrote:
| Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/stanford-
| professor-can...
| ViktorRay wrote:
| Thanks!
| dang wrote:
| (I detached this from
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186721 so we could pin
| the latter to the top. Nothing at all wrong with saying thanks!
| I just want to save some real estate.)
| bean-weevil wrote:
| I'm starting to understand why people are willing to pay for the
| new york times.
| apwell23 wrote:
| to read the comments?
| knuckleheadsmif wrote:
| NYT is worth paying for and is one of the few institutions
| doing real journalism these days. It would be said to see if
| go.
| dotdi wrote:
| I studied molecular biology 15 years ago. Recently I realized
| that I started to forget more and more about it, like how the
| rooms looked, names of professors, (obviously) a lot of the
| material I learned, etc.
|
| But I can't forget about our professor of Genetics: he was
| suffering from lung cancer, so when he talked about cancer, it
| had a tremendous impact. He also used to be a smoker and was
| quite outspoken against that too.
| hydrolox wrote:
| Another powerful read that touches similar themes to this article
| is the memoir When Breath Becomes Air
|
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-bec...
| jnsaff2 wrote:
| Obligatory mention of Randy Pausch's Last Lecture [0].
|
| Very inspiring.
|
| [0] https://youtu.be/ayPMfopCe1g
| broadsidepicnic wrote:
| Makes me think of this
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
| 999900000999 wrote:
| >One of its priorities has been nonsmoker lung cancer, a disease
| that disproportionately affects Asian populations.
|
| It's a bit odd to describe 60% of the world's population as a
| single ethnic group. I'd like to see an breakdown by country. Do
| Indians( which itself can be separated into more sub groups) have
| higher rates than Eastern Russians, etc.
|
| Then again, according to this article Asia just has higher rates
| of lung cancer. Excluding India for some reason.
|
| https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/lung-cance...
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| Is this genetic ? Or is industrialization to blame? "Poor"
| counties in Africa appear to have much lower rates( although a
| cynical take says this might be due to shorter average life spans
| as lung cancer is largely something that effects the elderly).
| Maybe living in a poor country where people can't afford cars
| nets some health benefits.
| mike50 wrote:
| Rates of second hand smoke exposure?
| 999900000999 wrote:
| It could also just be a measure of access to healthcare. If
| your poor and cancer gets you before you can be diagnosed it
| won't be reported as a cancer death.
| canucker2016 wrote:
| Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, was a non smoker and died
| from lung cancer. see https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/from-
| susan/
|
| Dana Reeves, wife of actor Christopher Reeves, a non-smoker, also
| died from lung cancer.
| choppaface wrote:
| Also know a non-smoker who got lung cancer, in particular a
| (rather rare) genetically sensitive form. Most of the damage
| ended up to the bones and brain versus the lungs.
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