With the odds of about 1 in 2 people getting cancer at some point in their lives, why isn’t it protocol for everybody to get screened for cancer of all types more often? Like maybe every few years starting at the age of twenty? It seems most times it get caught is when somebody is complaining of a symptom, often times too late.
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Because we in the US don’t have universal healthcare and cancer screenings are expensive – not as expensive as having cancer, for sure. But when you live in a country that has a for-profit healthcare system, the system is going to skew towards where the most profit can be made. Treating cancer is more profitable than screening for it
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