Signet ring cell

Buffy, my sis got her latest diagnosis yesterday, signet ring cell carcinoma of the appendix. In the 25 years between 1973 and 1998 there were only 70 reported cases of signet ring appendix cancer in the USA -- less than 3 people each year.


So it's nothing anybody does -- it's just the luck of the draw. I liken it to the short story The Lottery, where on a certain day each year all the names of the villagers are put into a hat. One is drawn out. All the villagers join in to immediately stone that person to death. All then go home and have a good life until the next lottery day.