How can someone who gets an annual physical exams missed being diagnosed with ca!
Question: my husband has physical exams on September 2005 and diagnosed with cancer in December 2005
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Unfortunately, a rountine physical exam cannot look for all types of cancers. It is quite common for a diagnosis of cancer to be missed in the absence of symptoms.
I'm sorry about your husband, and I wish you both the best of luck!
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it's very common.
Some forms of cancer grow very rapidly. Without knowing what kind of cancer and assuming that without symptoms, your husband's doctor was doing all the age-appropriate screening, I can only assume it's a form of cancer that when it awakens in the body - it grows rapidly.
I am so sorry that you are suffering, but I hope that the cancer was detected early and that treatment has been effective.
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Cancer can be very difficult to detect. For some tests, a random piece of tissue or swab of cells is all that is used. It is quite likely that cancer could have been a mere few centimeters further in.
Cancer screening is still valuable though.
Many types of cancer cannot be detected in normal exams. I actually had cancer for a while before it was detected too, I just didn't have obvious symptoms. I hope the best for your husband. You can always email me, Madenthe80s@hotmail.com
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