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Choosing the Most Effective Cancer Screening Tool
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Choosing the Most Effective Cancer Screening Tool
I find myself having these conversations with friends all the time, must be because we are women of a certain age 🙂, but we’re constantly getting invites from the doctor’s office for one screening or another. Some people feel they should say yes to every test, but I tend to take a step back and ask more questions first.
That’s why I really appreciated this article by Dr. JP Saleeby. It tackles the big questions: How often should you get screened? Which tests are actually the most effective and safest?
Dr. Saleeby walks through the pros, cons, and personal considerations for things like mammograms, colonoscopies, liquid biopsies, whole-body MRIs, PSA tests, and more.
💬 Question for you: Have you ever decided not to go through with a recommended test because of worries about overdiagnosis or false positives?
👉 I have added links to Dr. Saleeby’s recent interview on the topic and the article itself.
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With the uptick in cancers (and Turbo Cancers), IMA Senior Fellow Dr. JP Saleeby is here to tell you about <strong style=”font-size: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112);”>SAFE and effective options for cancer screening and surveillance.
https://imahealth.org/are-you-picking-the-most-effective-cancer-screening-tool/
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Dr. Saleebyś interview with the National Desk https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19ZexFmBG5/
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What are the risks of traditional cancer screening—and are there better alternatives? IMA Senior Fellow Dr. Yusuf (JP) Saleeby joins host Jan Jeffcoat on The National Desk to unpack the complexities...
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I am sorry to say this, but you women are the most gullible creatures, even the intelligent ones. You go through life having been given the questionable gift called beauty and now of a ‘certain age’ you come to realise you are becoming invisible like the rest of us (men). Therefore you believe that medical science (lets not go there), a cornucopia of supplements and/or so called beauty therapy is going to save you from mortality – at least for another week.
Ask yourself, how much money do you spend in these desperate attempts ? I see women in luxury cars outside doctors offices with puffed up ( I call it carpet) hair all the time. Hasn’t the last five years of the virus vaccine industry told you anything ? Another exercise in futility. Vienna waits for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccRif2DaGs&list=PLraUXdMOSKKFGJHUKaZnsswkOMFrwHsE5&index=5
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I skip almost all tests. I’d never get a colonoscopy nor a mammogram. Mammograms are hardly performed any more in Europe due to their lack of value and radiation exposure. I’m much more interested in prevention: Healthy lifestyle and strong immune system.
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Agree @adesimba – whats your top immune boosting tip?
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About the time I came off Bio-ID HRT (testosterone) my PSA began to rise. The coinciding timeline was pointed out by an environmental medicine MD. My local urologist has been hard-driving toward a random needle biopsy which I have rejected multiple times. Multiple DREs have been described as “smooth”. My own research indicates the 1st step in determining cancer presence is a 3 Tesla, Multi-Parametric MRI. The nearest machine to me is a 5 hour drive which I will be doing in late September. I got my local urologist to begrudgingly write the order for the scan. Truly it is sad when one can no longer depend on a “medical specialist” to provide reasonable and sound medical advice. The internet is available for us all…use it!
To thine own self be true. Engage in critical thinking.
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So true @dougc71887 , we have to do our own research and at the IMA thats a key pillar – patient empowerment. Do keep us updated after the scan.
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I had one at 4o, was told they couldn’t see much because I had dense, fibrocystic breasts. I learned the research, and never had another. After the pfizer vax (at 57) I had a turbo triple negative breast cancer. It wasn’t there one day, and 2 weeks later was an inch long. I have zero regret about not having had mammograms along the way. The odds that a mammogram would have found it are extremely slim since the aggressive ones grow too quickly. Many women are diagnosed with TNBC within a month or two of having a clean mammogram.
Now that I have had cancer I am extremely irritated by the radiology profession. In Idaho and Hawaii they have refused my doctors instructions to give me ultrasounds without mammogram first, or to give me MRI’s without contrast. My oncologist and my radiologist both recommend those, but the radiologists simply will not do it. Cancer in the other breast or other parts of the breast can appear, but when my doctor orders a bilateral ultrasound (with or without a mammogram first) they refuse to do the whole breast, but will only focus on the area of the previous cancer. This isn’t an insurance issue, it’s radiologists not wanting to take on any additional minuscule liability. It is appalling to me that a doctor with zero knowledge of my cancer history (knowledge that my oncologist and radiation oncologist have), can override them
The only way I have been able to get the imaging I need, EVEN AS A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR, is to use direct to consumer ultrasound companies QT Imaging, and HerScan. It is despicable.
Meanwhile I know so many women who have been overtreated and terrified about “DCIS” which isn’t even cancer. And many others who believe mammogram “saved their life”, by finding tiny slow growing tumors which likely would never have been a problem. None of them realize that mammograms themselves can cause cancer.
Other screenings are just as bad. I did one at 50 in conjunction with an endoscopy I needed, and developed diverticulitis afterward. After the cancer I found I have a genetic condition which puts me at extremely high risk of colon cancer, so I did another at 60. I did have some small polyps this time, and they are recommending one every 2 years ago most. However I’m now reading that the polyps might be there to protect you from cancer and maybe we shouldn’t cut them out. We definitely need more research in this area, so for now I’m skipping. Maybe my only solution is a $2500 Prenuvo every year, or some other whole body MRI.
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What a horrible experience @qofmiwok …”It is appalling to me that a doctor with zero knowledge of my cancer history (knowledge that my oncologist and radiation oncologist have), can override them”… sounds the pharmacies during COVID (and still now) when it came to ivermectin.
There seems to be a lot of money in the screening process and often that means, sadly, innovation is slow to happen.
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