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Originally Posted by dannic  " I think with most cancers you aren't fine on Monday and have a cancerous tumor by Friday" You have this wrong.. there are MANY more fast growing cancers then slow. Head and neck cancers, thyroid, pancreas, some of the lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancers, lung, bone and some of the brain cancers. For example Glioblastomas can literally double their size in a weeks time. And the way you stated this is completely wrong.
Once the cells are in you and replicating, you are no longer fine. And the tumor starts on Monday if you want to use your week as the example, it may just take until Friday to appear or be noticed so to speak.
Oh and your example of appendix cancer and carcinoid tumors are one in the same example. |
Yes I know there are many fast growing cancers or people wouldn't be dying from them!!!! I may not be writing down what I mean in the right scientific terms but I still think cancers CAN BE slow growing. What about men that live with prostate cancer for years and years? Obviously that's not doubling in weeks or they wouldn't be able to live for years with it. My friends wife is starting year 6 with Stage 4 breast cancer so it's obviously not doubling, etc... or she would have died by now. That's 5 full years living with cancer, it's not spreading but it's not gone either.