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Many treatable cancers diagnosed late
An alarming number of treatable cancers are diagnosed at late stages, despite widely available and effective screenings, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report, released Tuesday, found that over half of all colorectal cancers and cervical cancers and a third of breast cancers were diagnosed in the later stages.
report causes concern because so many preventable cancers are not being diagnosed when treatment is most effective, said CDC Dr. Marcus Plescia in a statement.
The report also found that late diagnoses of colorectal and breast cancers were more common in African Americans, and late diagnoses of cervical cancer were more common among Hispanic women.
work is needed to widely implement evidence based cancer screening tests which may lead to early detection and, ultimately, an increase in the number of lives saved, says Plescia. Preventive Services Task Force recommends regular screening for colon cancer in men and women over 50, including colonoscopies and fecal occult blood tests. The American Cancer Society says women should have annual mammograms, starting at age 40, for as long as a woman is good health. By the time a woman is 21, she should be screened for cervical cancer by getting a regular Pap test every year or a newer liquid based Pap test every two years, according to the ACS. If women 30 and older have had three normal Pap tests in a row, those screenings for cervical cancer can be spaced out every two to three years.
I also had to have a colonoscopy, had no one to drive me 200 miles home if I was van cleef necklace clover knock off sedated, so I told the doctor to forget about the sedation and just cauterize the growths. He did and I lived thru it all and was released from hospital in about an hour after the procedure and I was able to drive myself home and have dinner with my wife. Otherwise, if I had been sedated the hospital would make me stay there overnite, and since I knock off van cleef alhambra necklace a care giver for my sick wife I had no option but to be cauterized.
November 24, 2010 at 15:54
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I had the tiffany s necklace knock off same experience for minor surgeries. Don say anything in advance about not having anyone to pick you up. Instead, tell your medical person that a friend will be picking you up. If anyone asks when that will be, give a time 2 3 hours after the scheduled procedure. Then after the procedure and you are feeling ok, either just leave no one can stop you or say you are going to sit out in the waiting room (or wherever away from your bed)and wait for your friend. Again, no one can stop you. The doctor won give his/her approval, and will try and talk you out of it, but the hospital cannot make you stay.
November 24, 2010 at 16:20
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Bob, there is an alternative called a flexible sigmoidoscopy for which sedation is not required nor recommended. This combined with annual fecal occult blood tests is a recommended alternative to the colonoscopy.
Margie, lying to your physician about anything is self defeating. How do you expect us to do our job if patients lie to us? In this case it would be wreckless. If I sedated a patient for a procedure and they drove home, at which time they have a head on collision with you rendering you paralyzed, would you not try to hold ME (not the defiant patient) responsible?
November 25, 2010 at 11:27
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Funny, i scheduled a scopy and had one performed. We, as Anericans are losing. I will NEVER schudle another scope again, no matter what they say will be covered. I can afford it!!!!
November 24, 2010 at 14:07
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$4000 to remove and look at one polyp? RIDICULOUS. If it was 2 polyps, would it have cost $8000? Insurance companies should be required to cover this, and WHY AREN THEY? Greedy you know whats. I would first formally appeal the decision with the insurance company. If that fails, try to negotiate the cost down with the hospital. If that fails, send them $20/month (or whatever you can comfortably afford) toward the bill and say you can afford more. Some people have been known to just refuse to pay, but I wouldn recommend this approach.
November 25, 2010 at 07:39
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It amazes me how people are so naive when it comes to how corrupt this world is.
Cancer is big business. Pink ribbons everywhere. Money going towards this cancer research, and that cancer foundation. Have they found a single thing to cure it or even prevent it? NO. We know that foods will do a GREAT DEAL to prevent cancer as well as lessening pollutions. Will the government do that? NO WAY! They WANT people to get cancer. There is NO MONEY in prevention and NO MONEY in cures. If they found a cure for cancer tomorrow, it would be suppressed.
Yes, I too have been rejected by my health insurance company BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD for preventative testing even though I pay through van cleef onyx necklace knock off the ANUS every month for care from those dirt bags. They are the biggest thieves in the world. They will charge you an arm and a leg, deny coverages and treatments, and then screw your credit rating with no consequences to them. It is absolutely disgusting.
November 26, 2010 at 17:56
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Agreed Patriicia, but the problem with Ovarian cancer is that there are often no symptoms until it is late stage. And, to my knowledge, there are no standard,reliable tests for it either. My 70 yr old stepmom is a recent survivor (yey Lyla!), having been diagnosed as Stage 3 after experiencing extreme abdominal pain. She had a radical hysterectomy and luckily the cancer had not spread to her colon. My hope is that a standard test similar to a Pap for cervical cancer will be developed in the near future. I think one is being worked on, but it currently not very reliable.
An alarming number of treatable cancers are diagnosed at late stages, despite widely available and effective screenings, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report, released Tuesday, found that over half of all colorectal cancers and cervical cancers and a third of breast cancers were diagnosed in the later stages.
report causes concern because so many preventable cancers are not being diagnosed when treatment is most effective, said CDC Dr. Marcus Plescia in a statement.
The report also found that late diagnoses of colorectal and breast cancers were more common in African Americans, and late diagnoses of cervical cancer were more common among Hispanic women.
work is needed to widely implement evidence based cancer screening tests which may lead to early detection and, ultimately, an increase in the number of lives saved, says Plescia. Preventive Services Task Force recommends regular screening for colon cancer in men and women over 50, including colonoscopies and fecal occult blood tests. The American Cancer Society says women should have annual mammograms, starting at age 40, for as long as a woman is good health. By the time a woman is 21, she should be screened for cervical cancer by getting a regular Pap test every year or a newer liquid based Pap test every two years, according to the ACS. If women 30 and older have had three normal Pap tests in a row, those screenings for cervical cancer can be spaced out every two to three years.
I also had to have a colonoscopy, had no one to drive me 200 miles home if I was van cleef necklace clover knock off sedated, so I told the doctor to forget about the sedation and just cauterize the growths. He did and I lived thru it all and was released from hospital in about an hour after the procedure and I was able to drive myself home and have dinner with my wife. Otherwise, if I had been sedated the hospital would make me stay there overnite, and since I knock off van cleef alhambra necklace a care giver for my sick wife I had no option but to be cauterized.
November 24, 2010 at 15:54
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I had the tiffany s necklace knock off same experience for minor surgeries. Don say anything in advance about not having anyone to pick you up. Instead, tell your medical person that a friend will be picking you up. If anyone asks when that will be, give a time 2 3 hours after the scheduled procedure. Then after the procedure and you are feeling ok, either just leave no one can stop you or say you are going to sit out in the waiting room (or wherever away from your bed)and wait for your friend. Again, no one can stop you. The doctor won give his/her approval, and will try and talk you out of it, but the hospital cannot make you stay.
November 24, 2010 at 16:20
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Bob, there is an alternative called a flexible sigmoidoscopy for which sedation is not required nor recommended. This combined with annual fecal occult blood tests is a recommended alternative to the colonoscopy.
Margie, lying to your physician about anything is self defeating. How do you expect us to do our job if patients lie to us? In this case it would be wreckless. If I sedated a patient for a procedure and they drove home, at which time they have a head on collision with you rendering you paralyzed, would you not try to hold ME (not the defiant patient) responsible?
November 25, 2010 at 11:27
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Funny, i scheduled a scopy and had one performed. We, as Anericans are losing. I will NEVER schudle another scope again, no matter what they say will be covered. I can afford it!!!!
November 24, 2010 at 14:07
Report abuse Reply
$4000 to remove and look at one polyp? RIDICULOUS. If it was 2 polyps, would it have cost $8000? Insurance companies should be required to cover this, and WHY AREN THEY? Greedy you know whats. I would first formally appeal the decision with the insurance company. If that fails, try to negotiate the cost down with the hospital. If that fails, send them $20/month (or whatever you can comfortably afford) toward the bill and say you can afford more. Some people have been known to just refuse to pay, but I wouldn recommend this approach.
November 25, 2010 at 07:39
Report abuse
It amazes me how people are so naive when it comes to how corrupt this world is.
Cancer is big business. Pink ribbons everywhere. Money going towards this cancer research, and that cancer foundation. Have they found a single thing to cure it or even prevent it? NO. We know that foods will do a GREAT DEAL to prevent cancer as well as lessening pollutions. Will the government do that? NO WAY! They WANT people to get cancer. There is NO MONEY in prevention and NO MONEY in cures. If they found a cure for cancer tomorrow, it would be suppressed.
Yes, I too have been rejected by my health insurance company BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD for preventative testing even though I pay through van cleef onyx necklace knock off the ANUS every month for care from those dirt bags. They are the biggest thieves in the world. They will charge you an arm and a leg, deny coverages and treatments, and then screw your credit rating with no consequences to them. It is absolutely disgusting.
November 26, 2010 at 17:56
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Agreed Patriicia, but the problem with Ovarian cancer is that there are often no symptoms until it is late stage. And, to my knowledge, there are no standard,reliable tests for it either. My 70 yr old stepmom is a recent survivor (yey Lyla!), having been diagnosed as Stage 3 after experiencing extreme abdominal pain. She had a radical hysterectomy and luckily the cancer had not spread to her colon. My hope is that a standard test similar to a Pap for cervical cancer will be developed in the near future. I think one is being worked on, but it currently not very reliable.
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