If Many Cancers Are Hard to Spot Early, What Do You Do? Posted: 09-24-07 00:12am
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?
