Recently saw a baseball video where a man had one too many hotdogs at the game which resulted in him getting stomach pain the next day. When he went to the doctor they detected cancer in him and treated him.
How is it possible to detect cancer even before the symptoms show?
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Well cancer is an ongoing thing.
If that guy ate a ton of hotdogs and they then checked in on him due to stomach pain.. and he gets an ultrasound..or some other thing that can visually detect a cancer….be it a CT, xray, mri or maaany other methods.
well if a cancer emerged and is large around already it may be detected there… it wasn’t these specific hotdogs that caused the cancer… cancers or rather runaway stray cells that start to emerge are quite normal.. our bodies tend to just eliminate them fast enough before it becomes a problem..
Theres also subtle changes to your biology and smell profile with certain illnesses.. which is why dogs can famously smell out cancers.. up to a rate where they detect it more reliably than experts looking for it.. so we are doing ongoing research looking for those enzymes and markers. Making special tests. so that is another way to find illnesses pretty dang early.. for instance parkinsons and altzheimers seem to have subtle markers you can spot up to 15 if not 25 years early… there is an incredibly small amount of people that can smell these enzymes too.. which is quite eerie if you have that talent.. you just see potentially terminally ill people before they know it.. and you could choose to help them early but it is ethically quite questionable if you want to be that person to deliver those news…considering some things like altzheimers or parkinsons are quite the dead end.. sure not cancers but you attain quite the life changing / derailing Knowledge there.
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