The survival rate for pancreatic cancer is around 1 in 8, so Laurelin's news is not glad news. That said, she should be "ticked" that it took 47 years for Iran to receive the consequences of 47 years of warring against the US. Clinton, Obama, and Biden had the relatively calm geo-political context in which they could, but didn't.
Laurelin should be more concerned with setting her temporal affairs in order and her future in eternity than with politics.