Hank: by 10 or 20 years from now there will be even better treatments for his cancer (2023)
prediction · status: due 2045; outcome not yet known · last event: repeated (2025-04-18) · owner: Hank
In August 2023, announcing his remission, Hank guessed that in 10 or 20 years there would be even better treatments if his cancer came back. In April 2025 he repeated that by then there might be better treatment or monitoring, if science continues.
Told alongside: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023)
About: Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-25 | predicted | Hank says if his cancer came back in 10 or 20 years that would probably be great, because by then he guesses there will be even better treatments. (hedged) | Remission 00:05:51 |
| 2025-04-18 | repeated | Hank says that 10 or 20 years from now, when leukemia would be most likely for him, maybe there will be better treatment or monitoring, if science continues, which he never used to worry about. (hedged) | I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) 00:02:31 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2023-08-25 · Remission — Hank says chemotherapy has significantly raised his lifelong chances of heart and lung disease, leukemia and other cancers, as does having had cancer once. — 00:02:47
- 2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank told his oncologist he worries about rare but possible secondary cancers, above all leukemia, the worst one to get and one there is very little way to monitor for now. — 00:02:31