Right, so aunt has endometrial cancer. They believe that it's contained in the uterus and everything will be okay once they do her hysterectomy. If it has spread then they'll do some radiation and chemo, but the doctors really don't think it'll come to that.
But as she says, "Cancer shmancer, cancer's not scary. I live with two Dachshunds."
But there's also this:
http://io9.com/5557716/alan-moores-cthulhu-comic-is-coming-gird-brain-for-explosion