Exactly. Calling prostate cancer the "good cancer" is like calling a mugging “a teachable moment”—sure, you might walk away smarter, but you're still bleeding and missing a wallet.

Yes, statistically, prostate cancer often progresses slowly. Yes, treatment options can be effective. And yes, if you're lucky, old age or boredom might kill you first. But the key word there is if. If it’s not aggressive. If it’s caught early. If your biology cooperates. If your treatment team isn’t made up of the Three Stooges in lab coats.

The phrase “good cancer” is a lazy linguistic placebo—a pat on the head from people who want to wrap your terror in a warm, condescending blanket of denial. It's the verbal equivalent of saying, “Don’t worry, it’s just a little bit of cancer.”

And as for Vince Flynn—he’s a brutal reminder that the statistics don’t write your ending. Biology does. Random chance does. And sometimes, that “good cancer” doesn’t even bother with dinner and a movie before turning metastatic.

So yes, let’s retire the term “good cancer.” Replace it with something more accurate—say, “conditionally survivable malignancy,” or “a crapshoot with decent odds if you get the slow kind and no one screws up.”

But good? Cancer isn’t good. Even when it’s behaving