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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There are hundreds of types of cancer and many are very difficult to detect until they’ve advanced. Some of the most exciting developments in cancer treatment aren’t actually the treatment, theyre methods of detecting it early enough that its treatable with current methods.
They do watch for warning signs of common ones but regularly screening is not technologically feasible, much less financially so.
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