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had it today. Sore tonight!! The radiologist said it looked to be benign but the pathologist will look over the slides and my doctor will call in a few days.
got results back................NO cancer. Will decide after the New Year holiday what the next step will be regarding the nodule being bothersome.
to anyone who has doubts about PSA testing, read my comments on the thread about opposition to testing. Maybe it will help you make up your mind and help you realize a simple, inexpensive blood is worth the effort. There will always to negative possiives and visa versa, but please get tested.
You know when Sarah Palin was talking about "Death Panels" with the new Obama Health Care Bill, she was blasted as a loon and a bunch of other nasty names, and here we are having people that are trying to delay testing of put it off for an additional decade, which of course gets them a lot closer to "Shovel Ready" than cured.
Now the talk about the cuts and these same panels that Palin was trashed for are starting to raise their ugly head.
More and more I am seeing posts where people claim that tests are a waste of time, that is a covert "Campaign of whispers". I would bet they are in fact on a payroll to help cut costs by getting people not to be tested... If you say it enough, people start to believe it.
Yeah, I know it's sounds like a conspiracy theory, but why would someone that is healthy come to such forums like this and claim getting tested is a waste of time? When something stinks, it is more than likely rotten!
It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better!
This recommendation is disconcerting. While yearly exams may not be necessary for the detection of cervical cancer, they may be necessary to detect other feminine cancers---such as ovarian cancer, which has no specific test for diagnosis. New guidelines discourage annual Pap tests - latimes.com
This recommendation is disconcerting. While yearly exams may not be necessary for the detection of cervical cancer, they may be necessary to detect other feminine cancers---such as ovarian cancer, which has no specific test for diagnosis. New guidelines discourage annual Pap tests - latimes.com
It is a trend I really don't care to see. The message is always early detection... Well how can it be early detection when you only check twice a year.
It is a trend I really don't care to see. The message is always early detection... Well how can it be early detection when you only check twice a year.
it is referred to as early detection as most cancers take years to really develop. A yearly or twice yearly check will indeed catch early cancers.
Nita
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