User blog comment:MEffect Fan/Miranda's benign neoplasm/@comment-2235714-20101212094413

And Thane is going to die in a couple months too. A lot of the characters have a tragic side. I guess they just wanted to add more depth to Miranda. And to address your original question, while I don't possess a degree in medicine, I would point out that "benign neoplasm" is extremely vague. It is impossible to know if her condition is curable by today's standards with such dodgy information about the condition, let alone by the standards of a fictional future universe. Moral of the story: fanfic authors need to stay on their meds.