This should be a reminder for everyone to try to get a full checkup at least once a year, even if you are feeling OK
Yes, from what he said it sounds like he had no idea he had it until it hit stage 4 which is horrifying, from feeling OK one day to being at deaths door the next. The sister of a friend of mine, her husband out of the blue one day became confused and couldn’t remember names and they found he had advanced aggressive brain cancer and in TWO WEEKS he was dead! I couldn’t believe it, and they were married less than a year, just an absolute nightmare.
The vast majority of the time, unless it’s a fully body scan, a full checkup isn’t likely to detect cancer.
“This should be a reminder for everyone to try to get a full checkup at least once a year, even if you are feeling OK”
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As a person who, like Rush, has “formerly nicotine-stained fingers”, Rush’s stage 4 diagnosis made me determined to look for things early. For current or former long term heavy smokers such as myself the “Low-dose CT Scan” program can detect lung cancer very early.
More information here:
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/lung-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/detection.html