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re: How can you catch cancer in its early stage of development?
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:41 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:41 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
Frequent blood work
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Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:42 pm to Scooba
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Blood work.
this. abnormalities in a CBC. also, in my case of Testicular Cancer, there are a couple of cancer marker hormones that were elevated.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:48 pm to tigeraddict
Colonoscopy found my cancer in early stage. Had surgery and have been cancer free for 10 years.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:50 pm to ksayetiger
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What does this accomplish? Not the water, the pH of it?
You'd be surprised just how many brands of bottled water is acidic in nature or just how much of the foods we eat are acidic. You want neutral at least. Your body is most healthy when your pH is neutral. Diseases thrive more easily if our pH is less than neutral. Our immune systems work better when our pH is normal. And for the most part our bodies do a great job of handling and processing what we ingest to have a normal pH. Ingesting too much acidity or too much alkalinity can affect it. Why stress out your organs needlessly by working them too hard. It's ok to have a bottle of slightly acidic water once in a while and to drink coffee. Just not all day long or lots of it.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:54 pm to FrenchToast
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You're thinking of a DRE. Sure, have your primary care doctor handle this. But also do the blood work. Great idea on the colonoscopy at 45. I waited until 50 and got lucky there as none of the polyps they removed were cancerous.
I get a yearly checkup with blood work and urine test. Every other year I get a psa test.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 1:00 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
As someone who has cancer (since 2012) and who also works in biomedical research, I can honestly say that educating yourself on prevention is important. You'll drive yourself NUTS trying to pay attention to every single thing (cough, a rash, a bump, etc...). Align yourself with a good Primary Care Physician (PCP) and develop a relationship with them. Research your family's health history and discuss that with your PCP. You may be worried about cancer, but you may need to be worrying about diabetes or heart disease. Knowing is half the battle. Not knowing is the killer. Some things are luck, the others are just not being stupid about your health. I know it's scary or weird to go to the doctor and have them probe you in places you don't want to be. Well it's 2016 and we know how to prevent A LOT. But you can't prevent it if you don't know what you're up against. Leave the doctoring to the GOOD doctors and just educate yourself on your personal and family health history. So much can be avoided these days if you just do that.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 1:04 pm to FrenchToast
Like already said, you are not going to affect your ph by what you eat or drink. And from working in the lab for many years, not a lot of cancers are caught by routine lab work.
You must pay attention to your body, a lump, abnormal cough, etc. cancer, unless you smoke, is just fricking bad luck in most cases.
You must pay attention to your body, a lump, abnormal cough, etc. cancer, unless you smoke, is just fricking bad luck in most cases.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 1:08 pm to FrenchToast
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Stay away from GMO foods as our bodies aren't designed to process these.
Come on man.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 1:11 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
I know a 23 year old gal who just found out she had advanced stage breast cancer. Poor thing. Cancer will always find a way to be a bitch.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 1:22 pm to jcaz
Just out of curiosity what are her initials? I heard a rumor that a girl I knew was recently diagnosed and she's also 23
Posted on 10/25/16 at 2:33 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
My suggestion would be to contact an oncologist in your area & ask his/her advice. For every form of cancer there are just as many tests for it, but some forms develop differently than others, from stage 1 to stage 4. As an example, it's a common medical recommendation for males to get a prostrate exam by their late 40's. The doc can give you the reasons for that as well as any others. But from my personal experience..I lost my parents, sister, wife & all 4 grandparents to cancer & there was no one set way that it was discovered in any of them.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 2:47 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
Colon cancer can be caught early via routine colonoscopy.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 2:51 pm to FrenchToast
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Stay away from GMO foods as our bodies aren't designed to process these.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Can't underestimate the benefits of vitamin C.
You can underestimate them, but most people overestimate the benefits as well as the amount they actually need.
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Why stress out your organs needlessly by working them too hard. It's ok to have a bottle of slightly acidic water once in a while and to drink coffee. Just not all day long or lots of it.
Seriously, what the frick are you even talking about?
This post was edited on 10/25/16 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 10/25/16 at 2:52 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
My question is more if the blood test does indeed show something, lets say you do blood test once every year, so you do the blood test and then 3 weeks later cancer develops are you just shite out of luck? Or does cancer not develop that rapidly and something would show up in your blood work?
Posted on 10/25/16 at 3:02 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
PET Scan, but practically cost prohibitive.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 3:11 pm to Stevo
Reading this thread from the cafeteria of MD Anderson after just having a PET/CT scan. Mine was caught at a yearly well exam. Some suspicious cells came up on a Pap smear however this type of cancer usually isn't caught that way. Prompted my doctor to go straight for a uterine biopsy and what do you know. Adenocarcinoma. Guess I am lucky?! I didn't have any unusual symptoms, family history or risk factors, but here I am.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 3:29 pm to SuwMwf
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Reading this thread from the cafeteria of MD Anderson after just having a PET/CT scan. Mine was caught at a yearly well exam. Some suspicious cells came up on a Pap smear however this type of cancer usually isn't caught that way. Prompted my doctor to go straight for a uterine biopsy and what do you know. Adenocarcinoma. Guess I am lucky?! I didn't have any unusual symptoms, family history or risk factors, but here I am
Glad to hear you caught it. I also go to MD Anderson (lymphoma) and it is a great place. Good luck!!
Posted on 10/25/16 at 3:36 pm to SuwMwf
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Reading this thread from the cafeteria of MD Anderson after just having a PET/CT scan. Mine was caught at a yearly well exam. Some suspicious cells came up on a Pap smear however this type of cancer usually isn't caught that way. Prompted my doctor to go straight for a uterine biopsy and what do you know. Adenocarcinoma. Guess I am lucky?! I didn't have any unusual symptoms, family history or risk factors, but here I am.
Sorry to hear that, but glad to hear it was caught and hopefully early. Have you started treatments yet? If so, what kind?
Today was chicken-fried steak day in the cafeteria on my side of that campus, hope you had similar luck
Posted on 10/25/16 at 3:39 pm to tigeraddict
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couple of cancer marker hormones that were elevated.
MIL found out via blood work well prior to anything showing up on mammogram.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 3:43 pm to Scooba
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MIL found out via blood work well prior to anything showing up on mammogram.
Yeah, we are getting better every year when it comes to blood markers; however, as someone mentioned earlier, there can be a lot of false positives and negatives. We have started adding several markers to all clinical trials to further define their efficacy in detection or for measuring response to treatments.
Although I am super mad at Obama and Biden forstealing the "Moon Shot" thing, one huge step which I hope they follow up on is the sharing of data among groups. It is so hard, if not impossible, to compare data among different groups even within the same institution due to government regulations, and opening these doors would be a huge step towards more quickly identifying blood markers, in addition to shortening the amount of time it takes for drugs to get through the clinical trial process.
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