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To: monkeyshine
For BC, if you catch it early enough it can be surgically removed it before it spreads.

No, breast cancer is not one of the cancers that progresses from small tumor to large tumor to metastasis. In many case for breast cancer, they remove it and later there is metastasis, because that happened earlier. That's why the data on screening for breast cancer is no as great as other cancers. Same with prostate cancer.

For colon cancer and cervical cancer, screening works well.

10 posted on 09/27/2021 12:35:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

PSA screening for prostrate issues is common, my yearly chem panel caught a higher PSA number and resulted in further testing and treatment.

Don’t understand your statement.


11 posted on 09/27/2021 1:24:51 PM PDT by UB355 (Slow Traffic keep right)
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To: nickcarraway

This Dr. thinks the very act of cutting out the tumor activates cancer cells that have already escaped to other parts of the body.

He says this could be prevented if the surgeon would administer an NSAID prior to surgery.

My wife had a lump removed in early 2013. The surgeon said it was well localized and got it all, and the associated lymph nodes was clear.

Yet in 2018 we learned it had spread to her spine and both femurs. She died last October.

I tried to get her oncologist and PA to watch the video prior to a biopsy but they wouldn’t listen, saying the risk of bleeding was greater than the risk of spreading it further.


13 posted on 09/27/2021 2:24:21 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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