Certain cancers such as lung are very hard to spot in stage 1 and 2, or at least don't produce any symptoms until the later stages. Since most people cannot get checkups every other week or every other month, and don't want to live their lives in fear, what do they do at that point?

I mean it becomes a gamble. YOu can get a checkup and be healthy one year, and then the next month you get stage 1 lung cancer, and you think you're fine. By your 2nd year's checkup, you're onto stage 3.4, and you're going to die.

Is cancer, and detecting it basically a game of chance?

How often should we go for screening, and what types of tests? I mean it gets SO complicated and not many of us have the time and money to do this all routinely.

Will blood work be sufficient? Xrays don't catch everything.

OR will we need to go for CT/CAT scans and quite possibly the very expensive full body scans, etc?


There is basically cancer of everything out there, so without resorting to a hypochondriatic state, how does someone sanely and efficiently prepare themselves and monitor for all types of cancer?