Archive for the "Cancer Q&A" Category

8
Mar

hi, i am 13 years old and i am terribly scared that i am growing a tumor. It's a raised red spot thats really dry. over the past few months it has been getting larger and puffier. It is not ring worm, i know that for a fact. i am really scared.
Answer: if its on […]

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8
Mar

I heard from some one that there’s a cure for cancer that will stop cancer ever occuring.So I asked why it has not being introduced?He said that if there was a simple cure for cancer surgeons,doctors and nurses would have no jobs because half of the huge hospitals are cancer patients.Would you concur with this […]

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8
Mar

Should she be worried? She is 45 and a few weeks ago she had a breast exam and today she got a letter from a clinic saying that her latest exam showed some findings that may require more tests. It states that such findings are usually benign, but I cant help but be worried. Please […]

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8
Mar

My boyfriend's mom has hospice care. A nurse and social worker come to their apartment once a week to check on her. She had lung cancer and from that she got a brain lesion. She began getting hospice in October when they discovered she had about 5 tumors on her brain. Yesterday, the social worker […]

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8
Mar

To what disease increased Haemoglobin (HB) and increased Haematocrit (HCT) lead to, when all other things including RBC are normal count in CBC Report? Is is hazardous to have high levels (more than normal range) of HB and HCT? Of which disease are these symptoms of? To what condition it might lead to?
Answer: High Hemoglobin= […]

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8
Mar

family members that are living their last days in pain from cancer?
It seems to be the only humane thing to do. I would not want to suffer like that fighting for every breath or being so drugged up that I’m not aware of who I’m or who anybody else is.
Is it not […]

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8
Mar

I had a giant nosebleed and asked my dad who is a physician what it meant. He stated that it could be dry air, a bad blood vessel, or a symptom of leukemia. This nosebleed was huge. I was bleeding out of both nostrils for at least 15 minutes nonstop and caughing […]

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8
Mar

If physicians found something like bone mass on an x-ray, would they phone you up or just wait for your GP to tell you.
I had an x-ray 6 days ago and I'm getting pretty worried.
I'm 18 by the way.
Thanks
Answer: Try to rest a tiny. You don't give a lot of details but no news is […]

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6
Mar

I'm a 17 year old female (18 in just under 3 weeks) and found a hard, painful lump in the centre of my chest the other day. Without getting too graphical, it's in between my two breasts. The lump is a about the size of a grape and is slightly movable. I've had smaller lumps […]

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6
Mar

Yes; it's very rare indeed, but it happens.
Fewer than 0.1 of all those diagnosed with breast cancer are under 30, and it's nearly unheard of in under 20s. Only 5% of those diagnosed are under 40.
But, as everyone's said, it can happen. I knew someone who was diagnosed at 28; she died aged 31
Answer: my […]

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