A note from your editor
The good news is that my condition, while serious, still has a good probability of being curable. Things were caught at a stage where, with a bit of luck, the disease can be evicted from my body and, eventually, this whole episode will fade into a bad memory.
The bad news is that getting there is not going to be a great deal of fun. Cancer treatment turns the body into a battleground, and, regardless of who wins, battlegrounds always suffer. My treatment has been underway for a couple of weeks now, and will continue, in various phases, through the end of the year. I am doing OK so far, but I expect that there will be periods where I will not be in a condition to figure out and explain the details of a complex kernel patch or community political situation.
It is very much my intent to continue to inflict my insights, opinions, and bad humor on LWN readers over the course of this treatment regime. But there will certainly be times when I'll have to cut back or drop out entirely. The rest of the LWN crew will continue to work to make LWN the best Linux and free software resource on the net, and they will certainly do a fine job of it. But please cut them a break if an occasional edition comes out a bit thinner than usual; they will have a lot on their plates.
Needless to say, my presence at conferences will be somewhat reduced for a while as well.
Happily, it is possible to gain access to top-quality medical care in the United States if one pays attention and is well insured. My previous experiences with the medical system have had the effect of causing both of those conditions to be met in this case. In the absence of ugly surprises (always a possibility in the system here, alas), the stress of dealing with this situation should not be accompanied by undue financial stress.
If there is a lesson in this situation (beyond paying attention to your insurance if you live in a part of the world where that is necessary), it is that we all need to pay attention to the health of our bodies and to keep up on our biological maintenance. As a community we are getting older, and any "biological debt" that we allow to accumulate will indeed catch up with us eventually. Step away from the keyboard and get outdoors, eat your vegetables, keep up with your health screenings, etc.
Should anybody wish to help, a good starting place would be to not ask for details on my condition or treatment plans; I do not intend to discuss such things in public spaces. For those of you who have ever thought about writing up some interesting work for LWN, this year might be a good time to put together an article — but please look at our author guide and talk to us before getting into the actual writing. We would also still like to hire another editor someday, especially if we can find somebody who can write about kernel topics. But, for the most part, the best help I can get is quiet support and understanding.
Many thanks are due to the (few) people in the community who already knew
about this and have offered their support. More thanks to every LWN
subscriber; it's you who, among many other things, allow us to pay the
company's insurance bill every month. I am pleased and proud to be a
member of this community — and I plan to continue that way for a long time
yet.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 1:06 UTC (Thu)
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by PaulWay (guest, #45600)
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All the best,
Paul
Posted Apr 17, 2014 5:13 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 7:46 UTC (Thu)
by eyal (subscriber, #949)
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As you have mentioned, eat your vegetables, but lots of them and in particular Cruciferous.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 8:06 UTC (Thu)
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by mces (subscriber, #27668)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 10:17 UTC (Thu)
by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248)
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I've been where you're now. Three years ago, at age 33, I got the diagnosis, and the following years where a mixture of operations, chemo therapy, hope, despair at the tumor having spread, and lastly: relief at being healed and cancer-free.
Your way won't be easy, but if the tumor is of a kind that has a good chance of being healable then take a heart: you will get through it. And please, as much as I value your articles, your insight into all things Linux you should and have to place your health first and foremost in the coming months. If that means letting LWN slack then let it! It doesn't matter. Defeating cancer does; it's all that does.
One very grateful and sympathetic reader.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 10:48 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 11:41 UTC (Thu)
by rnp (guest, #50691)
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All the best,
Posted Apr 17, 2014 11:55 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 14:38 UTC (Thu)
by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
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I wish you the best of luck and hope you have a speedy and complete recovery.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 14:43 UTC (Thu)
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by iarenaza (subscriber, #4812)
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Iñaki.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 15:26 UTC (Thu)
by david.a.wheeler (subscriber, #72896)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 16:22 UTC (Thu)
by skx (subscriber, #14652)
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Beyond the good wishes already expressed, which I share and echo myself, thank you for sharing your news with us. To hear something so personal, and potentially serious, reinforces the belief that the editors and contributors here really are a community.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 17:23 UTC (Thu)
by amcpherson (guest, #44132)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 17:46 UTC (Thu)
by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
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Just because you are good at understanding kernel internals does NOT mean you can outsmart the law.
;)
Posted Apr 17, 2014 17:50 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 18:30 UTC (Thu)
by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
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One thing you can do is subscribe for a year at $7/month, then after six months increase it to $14/month. You won't pay more by upgrading, your subscription will just get used up twice as fast, so you'll need to renew after three months instead of the usual six.
If you do this repeatedly, the result is that you pay for a year at $7/month but have to renew every 9 months, which is effectively what you are asking.
And to Jon, as others have said I wish you a speedy and (as much as possible) comfortable recovery. Don't hesitate or regret to take time off — the community you have created is a great gift and is more than strong enough to survive the next year or so without your sacrificing your health for its sake.
Posted Apr 21, 2014 20:37 UTC (Mon)
by edgewood (subscriber, #1123)
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There is a bit more overhead for LWN (two financial services transactions instead of one), but since they offer subscriptions at the $3.50 level one would hope that the overhead is not a significant fraction of the starving hacker subscription. And besides, since it's really $10.50/month not $10, there's an extra $6/year to cover that overhead.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 18:18 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 19:17 UTC (Thu)
by a9db0 (subscriber, #2181)
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I know you want to keep the details private, but should you, at any point, need anything please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We, us, this community will likely bend over backwards to help you in any way we can. I may be speaking out of turn here, but I suspect not. We are here for you if/when you need us.
And I look forward to reading your pithy comments and dry humour for years to come.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 23:58 UTC (Thu)
by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624)
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Jon, take care of yourself and all the best with both the treatment and your normal life outside of that. You are a real gentleman.
Posted Apr 17, 2014 19:28 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 17, 2014 22:41 UTC (Thu)
by jrb (subscriber, #31610)
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Good luck Jon, and best wishes on a speedy recovery!
Posted Apr 17, 2014 23:11 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 18, 2014 1:47 UTC (Fri)
by rfontana (subscriber, #52677)
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As I remember saying at Collab Summit 2011, you are the most honorable journalist in technology.
Posted Apr 18, 2014 2:41 UTC (Fri)
by SEJeff (guest, #51588)
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Posted Apr 18, 2014 3:27 UTC (Fri)
by deepfire (guest, #26138)
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Secondly, a more practical suggestion -- please, take your time to look up Thomas Seyfried, a cancer researcher from Boston. It appears as if there is something highly-effective that you can do personally, in addition to whatever is provided by the usual chemo/radio etc.:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/0...
Posted Apr 18, 2014 4:30 UTC (Fri)
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Posted Apr 19, 2014 19:22 UTC (Sat)
by lbt (subscriber, #29672)
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A huge thank you for putting so much into LWN and this is to let you know that I really enjoy reading and participating here.
I know how much pleasure I get when people enjoy my creations and I hope you feel the same knowing how much I and others enjoy LWN.
When you do hit the inevitable low points - think of just how much you are worth to all of us and try hard to crack a smile :)
From a distant one of your many friends.
Posted Apr 20, 2014 10:51 UTC (Sun)
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Posted Apr 20, 2014 14:53 UTC (Sun)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Best of luck.
Posted Apr 20, 2014 21:53 UTC (Sun)
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by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446)
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Cheers
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Posted Apr 22, 2014 4:32 UTC (Tue)
by andza (guest, #72692)
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Remember to do what feels best for you at every particular moment, be it writing out taking some time off. The rest of the editors together with the community will take care of LWN.net.
Posted Apr 22, 2014 8:23 UTC (Tue)
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Posted Apr 22, 2014 14:19 UTC (Tue)
by gerv (guest, #3376)
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Your decision whether to talk about your experiences is of course your own, but I've been living with cancer for 14 years now, and I made a different choice:
I hope the stories there are encouraging to you.
Gerv
Posted Apr 22, 2014 21:07 UTC (Tue)
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Shërim të shpejtë
Posted Apr 24, 2014 20:51 UTC (Thu)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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The BCG vaccine is apparently used as a cure for at least one cancer, presumably discovered serendipitously, and the article surmises this could be the mechanism.
But the gist of the article, basically, was that fever was seen as a cancer cure for many years, but not really used effectively. Then an American doctor investigated it round about 1850, and discovered that there was a very strong correlation with fever and cancer recoveries - 80% of people who recovered were sick with fever shortly before.
So this doctor deliberately got his patients feverish, and achieved a high rate of recovery, often of cancers that even today are considered near untreatable.
Unfortunately, this fell foul of the belief that "fever is harmful", and as so often happens the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. A drug gets banned even if the disease is worse than the side-effects of the treatment, if the side effects are seen as too bad.
Cheers,
Posted Apr 25, 2014 2:02 UTC (Fri)
by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
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On the subject of "miracle cures".... I hesitate to mention this, but I am kind of reading this right now so it is definitely relevant. "World Without Cancer" by G Edward Griffin. http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Cancer-Story-Vitamin/...
His thesis is that cancer is by nature a vitamin deficiency like scurvy, rather than something inherently bad. It is at its root nature's way of healing injuries; the problem comes when the healing stops and the cancer cells are still there.
The solution? Vitamin B17, which is found in the seeds of many fruits and some grasses. Apparently it can both prevent and cure cancer.
The entire medical and government establishment says this is quackery. Mr. Griffin gives what I think is a pretty good amount of evidence in support. Perhaps the best are the tribes in Asia who eat a lot of apricots, including seeds, and have NEVER had a case of cancer - until Western food came in. Same with Eskimos, who got Vitamin B17 through musk ox meat. Why then do the "experts" reject it? Because it would kill the multi-billion dollar cancer cure industry overnight!
Other things to note.... the book has MANY positive reviews on Amazon saying in their experience it works. The few negative reviews don't make any serious attempt to rebut it. Also, this is the third edition; it was initially published in 1974. It apparently has some staying power. Also, Amazon sells B17 tablets which, themselves, have a lot of positive reviews!
I certainly don't want to make intrusive advice (especially if it could be quack), and don't want to make light of your situation. It is just something that may be worth thinking about. If I was in the situation, I can say that I am convinced enough that I would be seeking B17 rather than "traditional" cures.
And, I suppose I should subscribe again......
Posted Apr 25, 2014 13:06 UTC (Fri)
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RationalWiki has the following useful information about the so-called "vitamin B17":
Posted Apr 26, 2014 14:52 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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You may find both of these to be both difficult and undesirable approaches.
Cancer is a disease of multicellularity. If there were an easy way around it, if it were just a deficiency of some magic thing or other, we would already synthesise that magic thing and cancer would not happen (since it affects the young as well as the old, if at lower rates, and thus clearly puts cancer sufferers at a substantial selective disadvantage). We do not. Instead natural selection has built us a massive fortress of genetic defences and DNA repair mechanisms and controls on the cell cycle and even cancer-detecting assassin immune cells -- and *still* all this eventually fails. Thirty thousand nuclear DNA mutations per cell per day will eventually take their toll.
The only cure we have for all that accumulated damage is long-term cellular stasis and/or another round of natural selection, and unfortunately the only way to do that is to go back to single cells again and battle it out, best of umpty million sperm or ova win (yes, ova undergo a similar selection process, though at a different stage in the human lifespan). Of course, the result of that process isn't us any more -- it's our children, who will statistically be cancer-free -- and old age free, and mitochondrial damage free -- for N more years than we will.
Posted May 2, 2014 20:37 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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The main thrust of the New Scientist article, however, was that they think the immune system DOES recognise cancer cells. The problem is, there is a cascade needed to fire up the immune system and, because you're not "unwell", your immune system is trying to fight off the cancer while it's on a "peacetime" footing.
That's the whole point behind the fever, or as I suggested, "catching flu". The immune system fires up in full force, and as a side effect of firing up to fight the flu, the cancer-fighting cells get fired up too. Which is why BCG is apparently used for some cancers - as a vaccine it triggers a feverish immune response.
Cheers,
Posted May 6, 2014 22:39 UTC (Tue)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Obviously, as with everything else cancer does, this suppression is a reuse of things the body does in other conditions, which are then desirable: it's part of a crucial general defence mechanism against immune hyperactivity -- you can't really call it "autoimmune disorders" because autoimmune disorders are never this bad. Mice bred with immune systems that lack the receptor for that suppressor die in days.
Everything I've read about the fever thing suggests that it messes up cancer cells both by generally firing up the immune system (making it that bit harder to suppress) and *also* by raising body temperature: cancers, like virally infected cells though for different reasons, are notably worse at dealing with elevated temperature than normal cells.
Posted Apr 26, 2014 14:58 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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So if this thing worked it would preferentially poison *normal* cells and leave cancer cells largely untouched: just what you don't want.
Posted Apr 26, 2014 23:56 UTC (Sat)
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Posted May 2, 2014 18:40 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Swallow that, and it preferentially binds cyanide and takes it out of circulation for you.
Cheers,
Posted May 8, 2014 0:38 UTC (Thu)
by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
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Very fascinating, if true ...
Posted May 8, 2014 3:10 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Besides, tumor cells are much less sensitive to cyanide (it's even sometimes used in lab to kill healthy cells in cell cultures) because they preferably use anaerobic metabolism.
Normal cells are pretty much hardened against cyanide and can de-toxify in one hour a dose that can be lethal if administered momentarily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiosulfate_sulfurtransferase enzyme is used for it and it's rate-limited by the availability of sulfurous acceptors.
Posted May 8, 2014 0:34 UTC (Thu)
by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
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I'm not saying I'm 100% sure he's right, as I'm not a scientist or an investigator of this type, but I do think it is highly plausible.
Posted Apr 24, 2014 20:58 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Apr 24, 2014 21:38 UTC (Thu)
by sergi (subscriber, #117)
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I don't know you personally, so I can only tell from your writings, but you really come across as a genuinely good person.
Thanks a lot for all the effort you have put into LWN over the years, now please focus on your health first and foremost. I look forward to the day when you'll tell us about your complete recovery.
Sergi
Posted Apr 25, 2014 2:22 UTC (Fri)
by jeff_marshall (subscriber, #49255)
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While we've never met, I've been reading your site for years and greatly respect the work you do here. Because of you the world is a better place, at least for me.
Here's hoping for a swift recovery!
Posted Apr 25, 2014 2:50 UTC (Fri)
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by HeathPetersen (guest, #14116)
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Heath Petersen, LPN
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by filipjoelsson (guest, #2622)
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Having been away from the site for a while, this was sad news! I'm happy to hear that the subscription pays for those necessary insurances, though. I do second the sentiment that it may be time to raise the subscription fees a little bit. (I realize it's a question of finding the sweet spot, but raising 50c and $1 on the two lowest levels wouldn't drive people off, would it?)
Best wishes!
Posted Jun 24, 2014 3:12 UTC (Tue)
by bduncan (subscriber, #6886)
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I've always enjoyed your writing style and insight however. I found this news after renewing today and reviewing some of the issues I'd missed.
Very sorry to hear and hope that you have a speedy recovery. Take a break whenever you need it; we're all pulling for you and would rather see you for the long haul..
Take care.
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This news made my subscription renewal seem doubly imperative.
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All the best wishes. Get well soon!
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i hope you get well soon!
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Jon
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I not only hope that you'll get through this (second) terrible setback, but that you can go on, living a pleasant and healthy life, which you deserve.
Of course there is this egoistic part of me which wants to keep profiting from your golden eggs!
Don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it. There must be *a lot* of people behind you.
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http://www.gerv.net/cancer/
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"Περαστικά!", as we say in my country.
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Miracle Cure?
Wol
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In practice, this has not been shown to happen; in fact, where laetrile breaks down into three substances (including cyanide) is in the small intestine, and several scientific studies have shown it useless as a cancer treatment. Laetrile fans often cite anecdotal evidence of individual cases where laetrile appeared to work, but in every case where a statistically significant sample size was studied laetrile has not been shown to be effective. Laetrile is still presented as a "suppressed" treatment by many conspiratorially-minded quacks.
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Best wishes from Amsterdam.
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Filip
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