Because it’s not always caught right away. A lot of the time is not found until it’s causing someone enough problems to actually go get checked out. And by that time, it can be spread or grown in areas that aren’t easy to remove it from without causing serious damage.
Like my mother, when they found hers, she went to the ER because she thought she had a kidney stone. It turned out that she had cancer that had spread and was wrapped around her spine and had eaten away sections of her vertebrae, and the pain was the pressure on her spinal cord.
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