Why do so many people say that their loved one afflicted with cancer is a hero?

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For what, "enduring the pain and agony of the disease" "facing the risk of death every day"?
And what choice would they have? News flash: there's a difference between a hero and a victim. Victims were forcefully put in harms way, heroes willingly put themselves in harms way to help victims. I'm tired of seeing these slogans like "I never knew bravery until I saw it in my mom" with a pink ribbon by it.

Also:

How you handle it (i. e. chosing to live your life instead of laying in bed all the time) doesn't make one a hero. That's like saying that someone is a hero for facing the person who killed them as opposed to cowering when they were attacked. The end result is the same: they're both still victims

And chosing to get treated and endure the agony of those treatments instead of giving up and dying doesn't qualify as bravery or heroism either because as agonizing as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are, cancer can cause as much pain and more so the option isn't die or endure pain and maybe live, it's endure pain and maybe live or die a slow and painful death. Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious that it doesn't take bravery to chose to get treated for cancer -_-
Why do so many people say that their loved one afflicted with cancer is a hero?
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