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Iain Banks Dies of Cancer At 59

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday June 9, 2013 @04:54AM from the rest-in-peace dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is reporting that Iain Banks, best known for his Culture series novels and The Wasp Factory, has died of cancer aged 59. It had been announced several months ago that he was suffering from bladder cancer, and he had stated his intentions to spend his remaining time visiting places which meant a lot to him after marrying his partner."

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Re:First post by durrr · 2013-06-09 05:42 · Score: 5, Informative

Gall bladder cancer, not urinary bladder.
A sad form of cancer as it's almost never detected in time(due to no symptoms and few tests that finds it by incident), find it early, and it have a excellent prognosis, find it late, and it's game over.
Colorectal cancer is somewhat similar in that it grows slowly for a long time before turning lethal, but colonoscopies are much more frequently performed, and symptoms can show earlier.