Personally, 3 people I've known lost the battle with cancer. Two with great health care coverage and suffered with cancer and the treatments for 3 to 4 years before succumbing to it. The other person had no health care coverage and didn't know they had cancer until they were physically ill enough to go to an ER and find they had a month to live.

Cancer survivors I've known personally? Two.

I've been knowingly on the precipice of death at least 3 times. Not due to cancer, but other things. I'm going to joke about certain aspects of death. Life is already too serious otherwise.