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[–] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't know who that is, but I'm glad to hear it! Fuck cancer!

Guess it's time to check out a new YouTube channel...

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like if Bill Nye was your nerdy buddy instead of your cool professor. I've never met the dude but he's on my list of people who don't know they're my friend.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve never met the dude but he’s on my list of people who don’t know they’re my friend.

Yay for parasocial relationships.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

This is really interesting because it seems to me there's a placebo effect. I know I don't know Hank Green but despite knowing he isn't my friend (but he totally would be) he still feels like it.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

His brother is also a pretty good YouTuber, author, and podcaster

And their combined podcast is pretty fun: https://open.spotify.com/show/6e4HNBdPvjDOHKVf82oMEk

[–] kiddblur@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I miss that podcast so much. I hope it comes back when they’re ready

[–] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Nice username. Tell Tad I said hi.

[–] wren@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Definitely do! His content is great

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago
[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Oh wow I stopped following his channels a few years back so I had no idea. Good for him.

I love the videos where he talks to a science person and then hang out with an animal

[–] detun3d@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

This is always great news! Cancer treatment is getting better every year but there's still a long way to go. Here's hoping he never has to go through it again. 💪

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

So glad, it was heartbreaking when I heard he had cancer, he seems like such a good person

[–] appel@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Oh man, that's great news!

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Jesus christ my mind wrongly completed that sentence before I finished reading the title...

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone amazed at how quickly this has occurred? I don't follow his channel too closely, but I could have sworn he announced his cancer diagnosis only a few months ago (but I could totally be wrong).

So to go from finding out one has cancer, to then being cancer free in roughly 6 months or so is blowing my mind.

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Even when he announced it. It's crazy that in 2023, some can go "I got cancer. It'll suck, but I'll be fine."

Just a few decades ago it was the biggest scare to have cancer and it will terminally end your life.

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure what cancer he has but 6 months is actually roughly the timeline for Hodgkins lymphoma.

Depends on the type of cancer, but some of the new cancer drugs work incredibly fast. My brother got diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer two years ago but one of the new wonder drugs has mostly dealt with it. "Remission" can be a bit vague, though, and definitely doesn't mean "cured" - my brother's wonder drug is known to basically stop working after 2-4 years, at which point he'll have to switch to a different treatment (and hope that it works as well).

[–] cloaker@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Damn I heard about 2 weeks ago go a month so this whole ordeal has gone rather quickly for me.

[–] Zhao@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Fuck yaaaaaa!!

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I seem to be in the minority or not knowing who this is, but I'll have to check him out after this great news.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Him and his brother have a series of YouTube videos that cover science news and information that eventually became a larger network that covers history and all forms of educational videos. It's all great stuff and usually around 10mins each!

Ngl I was lucky enough to witness all that firsthand and it was amazing to see how far and how quickly his influence spread.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That's vertical-video-sensation Hank Green!

[–] Slayan@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[–] MrFagtron9000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean "cured" or NED (or whatever you want to call not going to die from this particular cancer) or does it mean he's responding to treatment and the tumors are shrinking?

[–] crashoverride@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remission is kind of a misunderstood term, people think they means it's cured or whatever, but you can ever be cured from cancer. It just means it's not actively killing you right now and tumors are shrinking. Tumors could even go away, but you're not cured and the cancer can always come back, it can also come back in other places. But don't get me wrong here, remission is definitely a good thing and it's worth celebrating 100%

[–] Jourei@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Somehow my brain turned remission into "The cancer was gone but it's back now". This is great then!