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9:04am September 22, 2013

➸ Nico: Thin privilege is getting the correct dosage of chemo when you have been diagnosed with cancer.

thisisthinprivilege:

via The Washington Post

Obese people are less likely to survive cancer, and one reason may be a surprising inequality: The overweight are undertreated.

Doctors often short them on chemotherapy by not basing the dose on size, as they should. They use ideal weight…

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    I have no idea if that follows logically from the sources above. Also, they have broken links, so I can’t verify...
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    So wait…the only reason my mother survived not one, not two, but THREE ROUNDS OF CANCER IS BECAUSE SHE WAS RAIL THIN AND...
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    I don’t think it’s pointless at all. For something to be a privilege, they have to be the ones being oppressive and...
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