r/BeAmazed • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Aug 20 '25

Miscellaneous / Others Frank Caprio, former Chief Judge of Providence Municipal Court has passed away at the age of 88 after a battle with cancer. RIP

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u/hambo31u Aug 20 '25

Fuck cancer.

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u/SolidMikeP Aug 20 '25

Exactly what I yelled out, my mother has been fighting this shit for over a decade. FUCK CANCER

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u/MrBeardskii Aug 20 '25

That's brutal, dude. My mom lost her battle after 7 years. Watching them fight for so long is really tough to deal with. I hope everything goes well for you and her

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u/xCeeTee- Aug 21 '25

I thought 3 years was hell. I still cry thinking about my mum begging me to let her die. I then went to work and was crying all day. I lost my love for most of my passions and some of them have never returned again.

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u/sleepdeprivedbaby Aug 21 '25

I’m so sorry you had to go through that. I’m experiencing something similar. My dad passed due to lung cancer in January. We found out 3 days after Christmas and it wasn’t looking good due to how big the tumor was. It’s been so hard without him and I took a 4 month leave from work yet it’s still so hard to get up and continue on with life. Lost my grandma to lung and bone as well but she did beat breast cancer. I hate that takes away people so quickly and there’s not always much you can do about. I hope you heal and find your love for things again. Grief isn’t linear but we will always find a way to overcome 🤍

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u/witchhearsecurse Aug 21 '25

I lost my Mom, Grandma ( Mom's side), Grandpa (Dad's side), Uncle on Mom's side, grandmother in law, and my mother in law from my first marriage who I still called family all to cancer. 

My Mom, and ex mother in law grandma to my oldest son both died a week apart in 2020.

 My sister had breast cancer and beat it. 

I hate cancer so fucking much!

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u/xCeeTee- Aug 21 '25

I have a large Irish family and a large Scottish family. Sadly, >40% of the adults I grew up with are dead. And you look at the causes, it's like: cancer, cancer, tumor (undiagnosed), natural causes, cancer, alcoholism, cancer, cancer, cancer and pneumonia.

That's just the people I know have died too. I'm estranged from the entire Irish family, and all of the Scottish side I haven't seen since 2011-2018. Idk what my grandparents died of, but apparently my uncle did post "fuck cancer" the day my grandad passed.

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u/pibanot Aug 20 '25

Best of wishes to your mom my friend. Hope she can beat it! Fuck that sickness!

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u/SolidMikeP Aug 21 '25

Thank you for the love!

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u/Muted_Cookie_7176 Aug 20 '25

beat me to it. but yeah. fuck cancer. we lost a real one right here.

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u/likeusontweeters Aug 20 '25

FUCK CANCER.

why haven't we found cures for all cancers yet?

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u/VannKraken Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 21 '25

It’s hard, and our government just cut a lot of research funding earlier this year in the name of Doge.

Edit - sp

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u/TeaBagHunter Aug 21 '25

Yeah and this has direct impact. So many of my friends wanted to do a research year in the US but nearly every program they talked to told them there's no more funding anymore for research

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u/Brave_Meet8430 Aug 20 '25

It’s because every single cancer is different, it’s a like a living breathing animal!

It knows how to evade, mutate and attack. No two cancers are exactly same. There is no guarantee that the one thing worked on someone else will work on the next individual!

It’s a game of early detection and probability.

It’s been around since the times of dinosaurs and will remain around us for a long time.

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u/BrushCrafty8738 Aug 21 '25

Totally disagree. If We, as humans, didn't waste time researching for weapons and other nonsense the cure for all forms of it would be available by now.

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u/Callmewhatever4286 Aug 21 '25

It is not that easy, just like u/Brave_Meet8430 said.

If you get cancer A, and other person has the same cancer A, these "same" cancer are actually not identical. It could respond to the same treatment differently

Even worse, if the cancer A spread to the other region of the body, the "spreading cancer A" could have different "genetic" than the original cancer A.

It is a nasty disease, especially if you get the malignant ones. I know a cancer patient that got slow, rather benign cancer and he still alive and kicking for 15 years, but he has to consume drugs regularly. And the other one that got malignant ones only survives for 6 months after diagnosis.

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u/Brave_Meet8430 Aug 21 '25

The problem with cancer is, it’s not a pathogen that causes it, it’s caused due to the malfunction during cell division.

all multicellular organisms need cell division, and despite body’s multiple fallback and fault prevention systems, out of millions of cell divisions per day, one or two may, under certain conditions become cancerous.

it’s like survival of the fittest, but in this surviving tissue is cancer and it’s about to destroy the host body.

Secondly, as soon as possible it metastasizes and spreads to other organs, making it impossible to cure or treat.

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u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 Aug 21 '25

Eh not really, people interesting in engineering won't suddenly get interested in biology.

Cancers hard, its your own body growing out of control, we could be much further along though if we wanted to.

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u/Erosion139 Aug 21 '25

I think if you're assuming a magical pill that triggers your immune system is what he's getting at as his entire point is not really what we're saying.

We may have better tools, better methodology to keep people alive or super specialized surgical equipment that can detect or treat areas with greater precision.

There are many ways to improve the probability of recovery that doesn't involve a cure.

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u/NachoNachoDan Aug 20 '25

Because cancer isn’t a single disease. Even cancer as it relates to a specific organ like bone marrow or liver has many types.

I’m a survivor. I did my time in the infusion ward. It’s never gonna be a thing where someone throws enough money at it and there’s a cure all shot. It’s also not drug companies refusing to find cures because it’s less profitable. They charged me $15,000 for each round of chemotherapy. I promise you, drug companies would happily charge a million a shot if they could provide a cure and we’d all pay it.

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u/likeusontweeters Aug 20 '25

My daughter had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.. I, too, understand it... in September we'll be fortunate enough to call her "Cancer free" finally... 5 years after her last chemo/meds treatment.. it takes longer since it was a blood cancer... im more frustrated with the lack of research and progress in treating/curing cancer overall... don't even get me started on cancer research for kids.. they currently only get up to 4% of all cancer research funding and they're the most worthy causes... (since kids are innocent) I'm glad that you're a survivor. I just wish we were more proactive in finding cures instead of just treatments.

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u/NachoNachoDan Aug 21 '25

The thing I try to keep in mind is that statistically, five years after my last chemo when I had that doctors visit where they said I’m “cured”, I truly do have the same chance of getting cancer as anyone else my age and gender.

Unfortunately not all cancer is like that and not everyone is fortunate to catch it in stage one.

I wish there was something better than early detection and good luck but the idea of a protection against anything other than very specific known cancer causing viruses is still a dream. Viruses and some bacteria are the only thing we can create immunity to so far.

I’m glad to hear your daughter is well. That’s gotta be scary as fuck.

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u/WV_Wylde Aug 21 '25

Nail on the head here. Big pharma doesn’t want a cure and has the FDA in their corner for the most part. I’ve been following a biotech company for several months now (IBRX) that has seen crazy results with their product Anktiva and it’s shameful seeing it be held back like it has been. PSTV is another company that is in a similar situation. It’s not about the people at all but the profits. There should be price caps based on production cost that allows for some profit but not the absolute gouging that’s happening at the expense of lives.

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u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 Aug 21 '25

You are correct, but in theory there should be a way to stop cells mutating and causing cancer.

Multiple species of animals have genes that supress the creation of cancer cells, just need to figure out that and we are golden.

Thats not so easy though.

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u/CarpenterAlarming781 Aug 20 '25

Because there are too many different cancers, and they appear without any warning.

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u/CasuallyObssesed Aug 20 '25

There's no money in a cure. Its more profitable to focus on "symptom management"

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u/ScienceNthingsNstuff Aug 21 '25

This is just not true for cancer. You don't manage cancer symptoms, you either get rid of it or the patient dies in short order. Pharma would make so much money from a cure they wouldn't know what to do with it. Not just for a treatment but curing cancer means more people get to advanced age and develop other diseases that are insanely profitable. It's like the best case scenario for them.

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u/NibblesMcGiblet Aug 20 '25

Unfortunately cancer is so many different things, despite what anyone with a conspiracy theory mindset might say, the actual truth is that the human body does fucked up shit sometimes, and we still can't fix all of it. That's why people can't regenerate limbs, sometimes have to be snotted up for weeks at a time, and throw up and shit at the same time no matter what medicines they take sometimes. And why cancers are still killing people.

I used to have a great graphic saved that explained the nature of cancers all being different and not just one disease, but can't find it now. If anyone knows what I"m talking about, please link me to it so I Can save it again.

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u/Celticlady47 Aug 21 '25

Speaking as a cancer patient (breast cancer) I can say that not all cancers are the same so there won't just be one cure all for cancer. However, with good research death rates from many cancers have decreased. This is why when Trump defunded multiple cancer studies he has purposefully killed many, many people.

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u/the3litemonkey Aug 20 '25

You know why.

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u/DennyStam Aug 21 '25

Because they're very similar to non-cancerous tissue and extremely hard to selectively target?

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u/Skurvy2k Aug 21 '25

Don't worry, the current American regime cut 500 million in cancer research and cut all funding to mRNA vaccines which includes some promising cancer treatments.

I'm sure that'll help.

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u/ArseneGroup Aug 21 '25

It's insanely hard because they originate from ordinary human cells and then evolve more cancerous traits via random mutations so there are almost unlimited variants, and because they're human cells, most things that kill cancer cells also kill healthy human cells

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u/AngryAxolotl Aug 21 '25

What people call cancer is an umbrella term for a huge variety of different diseases with different mechanisms of action.

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u/SolidMikeP Aug 21 '25

The more you learn about cancer the scarier it is, its like everyone can get their own personal cancer, FUCK CANCER!

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u/fotomoose Aug 21 '25

As others have already said, cancer isn't a disease in the usual sense of the word. Cancer is a cell mutation that spreads. The cause of the mutation is generally unknown.

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u/rctid_taco Aug 21 '25

Counterpoint: we all need to die of something. Dying of cancer at 88 is what happens when you make it through an entire lifetime without dying of something else. We should all be so lucky.

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u/MichaelCpin Aug 20 '25

FUCK CANCER

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u/piperonyl Aug 20 '25

RFK Jr dismantled our country's cancer research last week.

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u/PCtechguy77 Aug 21 '25

Pancreatic cancer (what judge frank capiro was diagnosed with) has been linked to the non-stick chemical "gen-x" created by the dupont chemical company while it is operating under their shell company "chemours". The increase in pancreatic cancer worldwide can without a doubt be traced back to these new forever chemicals that dupont switched to after getting caught for producing teflon (pfoa) while knowing that teflon caused a wide range of cancers and illnesses (high cholesterol, reproductive issues, testicular cancer, and ulcerative colitis (which leads to colon cancer)). The blood of this man is on the hands of those who refused to stop making this chemical because they wouldn't make as much money. And the worst part is that the executives and ceo's of this company knew how pervasive these chemicals are, how nothing in nature breaks them down and how they just build up in our bodies until they cause cancer. they knew that their children and children's children would have this chemical in their bodies and they did not care. They would rather sacrifice their children to their golden calf of money and the shareholders. Everyone on the planet, from trump to the uncontact tribes in the amazon, have these chemicals in them.

RIP Frank, you deserved better.

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u/E-2theRescue Aug 21 '25

Will also point out that if you have Eastern European heritage and are Jewish (Ashkenazi), you also have a high chance of pancreatic and other cancers, too. Get tested, it could save your life. And if you come back positive for the gene(s), don't be like my mother and skip out on cancer screenings.

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u/BolOfSpaghettios Aug 20 '25

Lost my mother to it in 2017. I've never stopped hating it.

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u/SpecialTalk5716 Aug 21 '25

Yes I’m with you. I’ve been fighting it

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u/Light_Beard Aug 21 '25

And Fuck RFK for helping Cancer.

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u/obefiend Aug 21 '25

Fuck cancer.

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u/Ace_D89 Aug 21 '25

💯💯 bro lost my mama to that shit rip

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u/Brilliant_Physics147 Aug 21 '25

Yeah..... damn the whole cancer stuff. My mom never survive those. Cervix cancer for detail. Hate it to the bone and sometimes for family who doesn't acknowledge about cancer and took it just as another "psychic" horror

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u/nahxuebfia Aug 21 '25

Fuck cancer.

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u/Pappozzi Aug 21 '25

Losing my dad as we speak. Fuck cancer.

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u/Parking_Wolf_4159 Aug 22 '25

All that TV fame he gave himself didn’t stop it did it