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"If you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. That to me isn't losing a battle, it is a draw."

He was one of the funniest people ever and there is probably no one who was a more entertaining talk show guest. I can spend hours just watching whatever comes up after plugging "Norm Macdonald talk show" into Youtube.

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That is a University of Science worthy medical fact.

From this I can infer you know the dog house joke

Downvoters didn't probably realize the phrase was from his joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3TI3iMb1E

https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/

idk it depends on the definition of dying and where exactly the tumor is

I wonder if he ever heard of Henrietta Lacks.

I’m not sure what survives to this day in that case is more Henrietta or more cancer. To this day the genome is becoming less and less human.

So perhaps a draw still in the long term since eventually the corruption could terminate itself.

FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

"Who writes these?!"

RIP Norm.

That is the single most comforting statement I’ve ever heard about cancer.

This year has been the absolute worst.

Is that actually a quote of his?

Yes it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRd-n_s4c8

From his special: Me Doing Standup

Thanks.

Interesting in context -- wonder if he knew at the time, it would be right at the limit of the time-window described in the article I guess.

In the TMZ article it mentions a 9 year battle with cancer.

Yeah, at least from my quick glance it looked like the special came out in 2011, which would put it around there. There's fuzziness on either side -- on one hand there was presumably some editing time, on the other he seems to have kept it private, presumably whoever told TMZ found out a little bit after he did, and their memory might not have been perfect. It is just in the ballpark.

Yea definitely, it's a bit in his standup

Yeah, TFA even uses the phrase "battle with cancer" and that's where my mind went...

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