Bad news from Total Biscuit

Rednoahl · Post by **Rednoahl** » Thu, 15. Oct 15, 19:10

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Not good news from TB today at all. I'm gutted for his family

Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Thu, 15. Oct 15, 19:38

mrbadger · Post by **mrbadger** » Thu, 15. Oct 15, 20:34

Not good at all

Skism · Post by **Skism** » Thu, 15. Oct 15, 20:57

Damn he is a good reviewer its going to be hard to replace him.

Stars_InTheirEyes · Post by **Stars_InTheirEyes** » Thu, 15. Oct 15, 22:48

I'm not a fan of his content, but I can appreciate anyone who is as enthusiastic as he is.
Sad news

Post by **Xenon_Slayer** » Thu, 15. Oct 15, 23:20

I'm sure he'll fight the good fight. He's not wrong, he's only 31, and age is a factor.

I haven't watched one of his videos in a while, but I do like the guy and what videos I did watch I usually enjoyed.

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Fri, 16. Oct 15, 02:56

Same. I haven't seen his stuff since he vlogged about the end of his first chemo run.

A sour note to be reminded of that on.

theeclownbroze · Post by **theeclownbroze** » Fri, 16. Oct 15, 04:01

This makes me shake my fist in anger knowing that there is treatment for hard to reach inoperable dispersed cancer, It's called Targeted alpha isotopic therapy, it involves using the patients own immune system and using radioactive particles attached to these cells, the cells find the cancer and shoot their radiation through the cancer. With minimal collateral unlike Chemo therapy and beta emitting radiation treatment...

And yet there is barely any scientific progress in this field, Even though we ALREADY know what to do and what we need to achieve that..

I hope for all the best to you total biscuit, Fight hard!

RegisterMe · Post by **RegisterMe** » Fri, 16. Oct 15, 04:50

This had all.. passed me by. I've always liked TB's reviews, but tend to only look them up when there's a game coming up that I am interested in. Scarce pickings recently.

So googling off this thread I found the "opening post" for this:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIHJmvnzwg

It's worth watching, both for the message, and for the overly and underly phlegmatic TB that we know and enjoy

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pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Fri, 16. Oct 15, 09:05

Liver cancer's nasty. The five-year survival rate for it is 17%, so *some* people manage to live a while with it--unfortunately, most don't. Darned shame, I've always been a fan of TB's content.

mrbadger · Post by **mrbadger** » Fri, 16. Oct 15, 09:42

given it was somewhere else initially, but moved to his liver, this suggests it's metastasized.

That can sometimes be held in check for a while, but it's virtually impossible to survive.

Not completelly impossible, but hard to do. Actually medication aside, attitude is a big part of it. Attatitude alone won't save you, but it really helps if your treatment has a chance of working.

My own experience with cancer patients when I was a nurse tended to be with those who were going to die, but that's the nature of hospital work, you mostly see the worst cases as inpatients.

Chips · Post by **Chips** » Fri, 16. Oct 15, 14:59

Flippi · Post by **Flippi** » Fri, 16. Oct 15, 23:53

That's really bad news

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Although i have witnessed Cancer, i do not know if you can replace the liver with a new one. Has someone some knowledge about this?

Greetings Flippi

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sat, 17. Oct 15, 00:31

Flippi wrote:That's really bad news !

I'm saddened, as well. TB has been more than just "another vlogger/reviewer" - He has been a very influential force on gaming and gaming media. As far as youtubers go, real people listen when he has something to say and they're not just TB fanbois, either.

Although i have witnessed Cancer, i do not know if you can replace the liver with a new one. Has someone some knowledge about this?

I am not a doctor.

The liver is a very miraculous organ. It's one of the few organs that can actually "grow" and replace missing tissue. Unfortunately, that attribute also makes the liver very susceptible to something like cancer and, once it has set up shop, it's very likely to continue spreading.

A liver transplant is possible, but only for a suitable candidate. If someone currently has liver cancer, they may not be considered a suitable candidate. If they get new liver, it may just end up being stricken by cancer, again.

Unfortunately, there's no magic bullet. When we hear of "survival rates", they're usually based on the number of years that people tend to "survive." And, that usually means that, more likely than not, even if one survives past that period, it's the cancer that's going to end up killing them...

I hope this doesn't happen to TB.

Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Sat, 17. Oct 15, 00:52

It's terminal. The cancer spread from his colon and as badger said has metastaized. The liver is simply the cancer that has been detected so far.

http://www.takethistb.com/ - I have no words.

Flippi · Post by **Flippi** » Sat, 17. Oct 15, 01:21

I'm saddened, as well. TB has been more than just "another vlogger/reviewer" - He has been a very influential force on gaming and gaming media. As far as youtubers go, real people listen when he has something to say and they're not just TB fanbois, either.

Well, I would not say that i am an big fan of him. I watched some Videos of him and these were pretty good. But I do not watch all Videos of him.

It's terminal. The cancer spread from his colon and as badger said has metastaized. The liver is simply the cancer that has been detected so far.

That sounds really bad. Well, I hope the best for him.

Greetings Flippi

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Sat, 17. Oct 15, 01:49

Antilogic wrote:It's terminal. The cancer spread from his colon and as badger said has metastaized. The liver is simply the cancer that has been detected so far.

Whilst possible, it isn't nessissarily the case. Metastasis involves travel and blood vessels intended to carry nutrients from the colon go to the liver before the rest of the body. So whilst the liver is a likely first place for cancer cells to arrive and settle, it isn't definite that they will do the same elsewhere. I don't mean to downplay the significance of metastasis but detection in liver, whilst serious, doesn't nessissarily mean it has arrived elsewhere.

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sat, 17. Oct 15, 02:53

Flippi wrote:
I'm saddened, as well. TB has been more than just "another vlogger/reviewer" - He has been a very influential force on gaming and gaming media. As far as youtubers go, real people listen when he has something to say and they're not just TB fanbois, either.
Well, I would not say that i am an big fan of him. I watched some Videos of him and these were pretty good. But I do not watch all Videos of him....

I generally check his channel once a day or so. I also watch many of his longer, collaborative, breakout sessions.

OmegaKnight · Post by **OmegaKnight** » Sat, 17. Oct 15, 04:28

Yes, it is very sad news.
One of the better content creators on youtube.
One can only wish him all the best in his treatment.

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Sat, 17. Oct 15, 05:07

Sparky Sparkycorp wrote:So whilst the liver is a likely first place for cancer cells to arrive and settle, it isn't definite that they will do the same elsewhere.

The problem is, the cancer cells likely *have* settled elsewhere and just haven't got big enough to spot yet. It's very unlikely they would use a transplant liver on someone like this for that reason--if you do the transplant, and then find the cancer's already metastatized somewhere else, it's just a huge waste of limited resources.

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Bad news from Total Biscuit

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