Maybe you were sunburned as a kid, or haven’t been diligent about wearing sunscreen, but you probably thought that, should a suspicious spot appear, your doctor would catch it and keep you healthy. Well, that isn’t always the case.
More than 90 percent of dermatologic surgeons have seen at least one patient in the past year with skin cancer that was overlooked or misdiagnosed by a nondermatologist, finds a survey of 271 docs by the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery in Rolling Meadows, Ill.
Horrifying, especially as melanoma is the most common cancer among women ages 25 to 29, and skin cancer is the cancer most frequently diagnosed in women. Don’t be the case that’s missed
It is important to understand Prostate Cancer.
Each year, about 179,000 are diagnosed with prostate cancer, and it will claim about 37,000 lives. If prostate cancer is detected early it can be treated effectively, but early prostate cancer has no symptoms.
Prostate cancer occurs mainly in men over 50 years and is the most common male cancer after skin cancer. Many men are aware of others at the same age who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. This raises the questions: what is my risk? Should I be tested?
The symptoms of both benign enlargement of the prostate gland and malignant tumours (cancer) are similar and can include any of the following:
difficulty in passing urinepassing urine more frequently than usual, especially at nightpain when passing urineblood in the urine (this is not common).
This news from Norwey with not a ver positive point of view about Breast Cancer :
Breast cancer tumours grow faster in younger women, a new Norwegian study says.
A research team from the Cancer Registry of Norway analyzed data from almost 400,000 female breast cancer patients between the ages of 50 and 69. They found that tumours in women aged 50 to 59 took an average of 1.4 years to grow from 10 mm to 20 mm in diameter. In women aged 60 to 69 years of age, tumours took an average of 2.1 years to grow the same amount. ”
Here are a few facts about Breast Cancer :
- Many young women and their doctors are unaware that they are at risk for breast cancer.
- There is no effective breast cancer screening tool for women 40 and under.
- Young women are often diagnosed at a later stage than their older counterparts.
- There is very little research or educational material focused on issues unique to this younger population, such as fertility, pregnancy, genetic predisposition, the impact of hormonal status on the effectiveness of treatment, psycho-social and long-term survivorship issues, and higher mortality rates for young women, particularly for African-Americans and Latinas.
- Young women diagnosed with breast cancer often feel isolated and have little contact with peers who can relate to what they are experiencing.
- As the incidence of young women with breast cancer is much lower than in older women, young women are underrepresented in many cancer research studies.
