The Cancer Almanac

[Maurice Boscorelli]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/11/magazine/cancer-origin.html?_r=1

This is a really good piece on the most common types of cancer that we face today and the treatments and survival rates.

It's a little long but worth the read

 

[Edmund]

Great post, should be a warning to all and hope it saves some lives.

 

[DannyDeVito]

Thanks for the link big guy.

 

[Guido]

To Bosco.

 

[Al Bumin]

Wow

Just 10 cancers — in eight organs, the blood and the lymphatic system — will account for more than 70 percent of new cancer cases in the United States this year, according to estimates from the American Cancer Society. The following pages list cancers in order of occurrence — the most frequently occurring first — along with an estimate of the number of deaths that the cancer will cause this year, and its five-year relative survival rate (as compared with people without cancer).

 

[God]

Thanks Bosco, many more should thank you for finding this link.

 

[Boing]

/-Thumbs-up::/

 

[007]

Didn't know, thanks for the information.

 

[Pooldude]

Time to quit smoking.

LUNG
CASES: 224,390 • DEATHS: 158,080 • SURVIVAL: 18%​

 

[Dan]

Aya ya Yikes :don'twantto-see:/

 

[Creepy]

Time to quit smoking.

LUNG
CASES: 224,390 • DEATHS: 158,080 • SURVIVAL: 18%​

Better news.

PROSTATE
CASES: 180,890 • DEATHS: 26,120 • SURVIVAL: 99%​

 

[oldguyzer]

All the more reason to have the woman you like to massage your prostate....

 

[TFZL1]

Thank you for the link.

My brother was diagnosed with a brain tumour yesterday. Very sudden, he spent the long weekend in bed figuring he had come down with something, but blurred vision and dizziness got worse. He called a taxi and went to the clinic Tuesday morning. They sent him for Cat scan, same building. Then sent him to hospital by ambulance. They did an MRI, that confirmed a tumour. Doctors don't say much in the emergency ward. He thought they were going to do a biopsy. They checked him in. Gave him some steroids to shrink the swelling and he felt better right away. When I got there last night, the doctor had been in. They're going to skip the biopsy And operate on Monday. Must be serious. They are letting him go home for a few days, check back in Saturday for op on Monday.

 

[oldguyzer]

Thank you for the link.

My brother was diagnosed with a brain tumour yesterday. Very sudden, he spent the long weekend in bed figuring he had come down with something, but blurred vision and dizziness got worse. He called a taxi and went to the clinic Tuesday morning. They sent him for Cat scan, same building. Then sent him to hospital by ambulance. They did an MRI, that confirmed a tumour. Doctors don't say much in the emergency ward. He thought they were going to do a biopsy. They checked him in. Gave him some steroids to shrink the swelling and he felt better right away. When I got there last night, the doctor had been in. They're going to skip the biopsy And operate on Monday. Must be serious. They are letting him go home for a few days, check back in Saturday for op on Monday.

Going straight to surgery is pretty common, depending on the size and location of the tumour. Typically, when a tumour is completely removed, the pressure on the brain eases considerably and a full recovery is expected, but again depending on where the tumour is and how it is entwined around the brain structures. The fact a steroid reduced the size is positive. Typically these surgeries are successful on "routine" tumours, those that grow on the surface of the brain matter. Again, while it's hard to say without more details, there's usually little long-term effect following surface tumour removal.

Over the past few decades the process has become standardized, and success rates are very positive. Doctors tend not to discuss too much with patients for two reasons: they don't want to scare the patient, and if they are too positive and something goes wrong, there's a lawsuit and possible loss of professional standing coming. My suggestion is to get on the Web and research what you can, then explain to your brother. He has a right to know and understand what is going on.

Keep in mind tumours are not "cancer". There's no such thing as brain cancer. A tumour is just an abnormal growth, and can usually be removed in routine surgery. FWIW I went through this myself back in the late 1990s, and I'm purfuctlhry nurnal. :-Cool/"

Good luck to your brother, and stay positive.

 

[TFZL1]

Going straight to surgery is pretty common, depending on the size and location of the tumour. Typically, when a tumour is completely removed, the pressure on the brain eases considerably and a full recovery is expected, but again depending on where the tumour is and how it is entwined around the brain structures. The fact a steroid reduced the size is positive. Typically these surgeries are successful on "routine" tumours, those that grow on the surface of the brain matter. Again, while it's hard to say without more details, there's usually little long-term effect following surface tumour removal.

Over the past few decades the process has become standardized, and success rates are very positive. Doctors tend not to discuss too much with patients for two reasons: they don't want to scare the patient, and if they are too positive and something goes wrong, there's a lawsuit and possible loss of professional standing coming. My suggestion is to get on the Web and research what you can, then explain to your brother. He has a right to know and understand what is going on.

Keep in mind tumours are not "cancer". There's no such thing as brain cancer. A tumour is just an abnormal growth, and can usually be removed in routine surgery. FWIW I went through this myself back in the late 1990s, and I'm purfuctlhry nurnal. :-Cool/"

Good luck to your brother, and stay positive.

Thank you OG. The doc did say they can't get it all, just most of it, then kemo or radiation .


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