Posted on 02/05/2020 6:54:37 AM PST by libstripper
When my wife was diagnosed with cancer the oncologist gave us this warning: You are going to look this up on the Internet. When you do, make sure you only look at numbers from the last 18 months. The cancer business has changed so much that the entire process has changed in the last 18 months. Otherwise you will be looking at “ancient” history.
It was good advice then. It’s good advice in this case too.
In many cases there are no symptoms. You get a cough....everyone gets coughs. You simply don’t pay attention.
Yeah. rush had no symptoms but now his treatment is gonna give the poor guy nothing but misery. It is his choice.
Here’s more info. Keep in mind that survival rates are from 5 years ago and may be better now due to advancements in treatment.
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/lung-cancer.html
Not true. CT scans, bone scans, MRI scans, and maybe a PET scan will absolutely detect where cancer has metastasized.
Yeah now that you mention that, I bet you are right.
My dad had bladder cancer and the doctor said that he will die in 6 months. That was in 1990, he died in 2007, on my parents 55th wedding anniversary. 10 years later my mom had stomach cancer, she died in 4 months.
Extreme tiredness is a signal to get screen for cancer, no matter what type it is.
MD Anderson in Houston and Sloan-Kettering are the two largest and best cancer centers in the world.
I was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer 5.5 years ago and had 8 bone mets. Thankfully, I have responded extremely well to first and second line androgen depravation therapy drugs. PSA is 0.0 and has been for the last 1+ years. I plan on being around for the cure.
If Rush said he was asymptomatic until a few weeks ago, he was diagnosed quite a bit before that. It just means he didn’t have any outward symptoms.
I am a Stage 4 asymptomatic metastatic prostate cancer patient of 5.5 years. No one would know it just by looking at me.
Both my folks died of abnormal cell growth
Dad had an astrocytoma that returned in five years as a megaglioma
Mom had ovarian we suspect that went to her lungs...never smoked
Nobody else had remarkable cancer type disease
Under 65 is considered remarkable
If you die of cancer at 80 it’s par for the course ..along with other killers ...something has to kill you....heart disease and so forth
Your story is sad I’m sorry...hard to read
Mom was to the point she could only do liquids, hospice brought in Ensure, she took a few sips, pushed it away croaked get rid of the Horse Shit she was a blunt spoken woman. Not much on the market back then. We tried strawberry Slim Fast it at least had nutrients in it, she was at the point pain over rode hunger. Guess she weighed about 90 lbs by then.
My wife’s oncologist said every year after 50 is a gift because that is the age we are finished child rearing.
The P in PET stands for positron, which is an electron moving backwards in time. It's pretty trippy stuff.
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