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When I was a boy in the 1950's, if someone had cancer it was a given that they had not long to live. Despite treatment being given it was never thought there was any hope for them; certainly not true nowadays.
07:23 Tue 27th Dec 2016
I don't have a figure but loads. There are so many different cancers I don't think anyone can put a figure on it. If symptoms are spotted early there's a good chance it can be treated.
Some cancers don't display obvious symptoms though. My dad died of liver cancer and he went to the doctor with a bad back. By the time other symptoms started showing it was to late.
Some cancers don't display obvious symptoms though. My dad died of liver cancer and he went to the doctor with a bad back. By the time other symptoms started showing it was to late.
Lots, I expect !
I am with bhg here. I can remember when the very word was never used....the Big C, for instance. People were terrified of cancer.
Anyway, there so many different kinds of cancer, to so many different parts of the body, that there may be little or no relationship between them all.
Far more importantly, I would have thought, is the early diagnosis.
I am with bhg here. I can remember when the very word was never used....the Big C, for instance. People were terrified of cancer.
Anyway, there so many different kinds of cancer, to so many different parts of the body, that there may be little or no relationship between them all.
Far more importantly, I would have thought, is the early diagnosis.
I agree with the above posters in that although it impossible to say how many lives have been saved, it is possible to say and demonstrate that survival rates have indeed improved over the past half a century, with some cancers better than others.
UK is still well down in the league of European survival rates but there are signs of improvement.
My take on early diagnosis is borne of experience rather than statistics and i am not sure that "early diagnosis" plays an important part in survival.
In my opinion, survival time in cancer is a matter of "luck".....nothing to do with early diagnosis. If your cancer is of a certain type and a certain degree of aggressiveness then your prognosis is poor, however early it is diagnosed. If you have a slow growing tumour, then the prognosis is good independent of the "early diagnosis. Generally speaking.
This is just my opinion, not supported by mail stream medical opinion.
UK is still well down in the league of European survival rates but there are signs of improvement.
My take on early diagnosis is borne of experience rather than statistics and i am not sure that "early diagnosis" plays an important part in survival.
In my opinion, survival time in cancer is a matter of "luck".....nothing to do with early diagnosis. If your cancer is of a certain type and a certain degree of aggressiveness then your prognosis is poor, however early it is diagnosed. If you have a slow growing tumour, then the prognosis is good independent of the "early diagnosis. Generally speaking.
This is just my opinion, not supported by mail stream medical opinion.
.// My take on early diagnosis is borne of experience rather than statistics and i am not sure that "early diagnosis" plays an important part in survival. //
oo-er Mrs ! I think the christmas gin got in the way of that thought
I mean heavens what would Bailey or Love say about that one ?
Metastatic, or stage IV colon cancers, have a 5-year relative survival rate of about 11%. Still, there are often many treatment options available for people with this stage of cancer.20 Jan 2016
personally having had colon cancer in 1999
I was glad to be stage 2 and not 3 ( survival at 5 y 20% less ) and sorry not to be stage 1 ( survival 95% at five years)
and for lymphoma ( more personal experience)
The type and stage of the lymphoma provide useful information about a person's prognosis (outlook), but for some types of lymphomas the stage isn't too helpful on its own.
I am not sure that means you can be stage 4 and live a long time
certainly if you are stage 1 and have no response to treatment you have a terrible prognosis
oo-er Mrs ! I think the christmas gin got in the way of that thought
I mean heavens what would Bailey or Love say about that one ?
Metastatic, or stage IV colon cancers, have a 5-year relative survival rate of about 11%. Still, there are often many treatment options available for people with this stage of cancer.20 Jan 2016
personally having had colon cancer in 1999
I was glad to be stage 2 and not 3 ( survival at 5 y 20% less ) and sorry not to be stage 1 ( survival 95% at five years)
and for lymphoma ( more personal experience)
The type and stage of the lymphoma provide useful information about a person's prognosis (outlook), but for some types of lymphomas the stage isn't too helpful on its own.
I am not sure that means you can be stage 4 and live a long time
certainly if you are stage 1 and have no response to treatment you have a terrible prognosis
PP.....I may have put my point badly.
By "early diagnosis" I mean the early detection of the primary tumour and in my opinion, that has little basis for prognosis. I suppose what i am saying is that screening has not improved the prognosis of many cancers (if any) e.g Lung (which isn't done anymore, breast or colon. It all depends on the type and aggressiveness of the tumour and not the early diagnosis.
Of course, when there is metastatic spread then one can say that the cancer has been caught late and the prognosis is poor.
Bailey and Love would still be advising gastrectomy for gastric ulcers.....
By "early diagnosis" I mean the early detection of the primary tumour and in my opinion, that has little basis for prognosis. I suppose what i am saying is that screening has not improved the prognosis of many cancers (if any) e.g Lung (which isn't done anymore, breast or colon. It all depends on the type and aggressiveness of the tumour and not the early diagnosis.
Of course, when there is metastatic spread then one can say that the cancer has been caught late and the prognosis is poor.
Bailey and Love would still be advising gastrectomy for gastric ulcers.....
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