too lazy to find the lotto thread but someone who won one of the billion dollar lotteries was a cancer patient
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1-billion-powerball-jackpot-winner-cheng-saephan-oregon/
The winner of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon last month is an immigrant from Laos who had been battling cancer for eight years.
The winning Powerball ticket was sold in early April at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in Portland, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months.
Oregon Lottery officials on Monday said 46-year-old Cheng Saephan, a Laos-born immigrant living in Portland and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week, claimed the winning ticket.
"I am grateful for the lottery and how I have been blessed," Saephan told reporters at a news conference Monday, according to CBS affiliate KOIN. "I am able to provide for my family and my health. … My life has been changed. Now I can bless my family and hire a good doctor for myself."