I have news for folks: lots and lots of people who get annual physicals and bloodwork end up being diagnosed with various diseases and aggressive cancers that didn’t show up in their most recent physical. this is embodied life
everyone expressing incredulity about this seems…very young & sheletered
everyone expressing incredulity about this seems…very young & sheletered
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The stupid pink branding makes it seem like it's exclusively women who get it. It isn't.
Please check yourselves in the shower, and if it doubt, get checked out!
It’s effects, detection & treatments are all different for men, women & children.
It’s an atrocity to cancel life saving investments in research.
If he were a “normal” patient I’d believe it was just diagnosed but being the potus just 119 days ago, they knew. Had he resigned then Harris would’ve taken over and we likely wouldn’t be having this convo.🤷🏼♀️ All the fuckery.
Way too early to speculate prognosis.
And then, you might get an infection from the surgery and experience the worst pain of your life for a month straight until they give you the right antibiotics.
We hope it won't happen to us bc we do all the right things and so when it happens to someone else we tell ourselves they must have done something wrong.
I had the idea that prostate cancer was a slow-growing cancer and that the PSA tests my husband takes are more accurate than they are. I'm not (1/4)
Google tells me that one of the PSA's limitations is that about 20% of men with prostate cancer have normal PSA levels—I did not know that—so the test may miss some cancers. Plus, age (2/4)
We're all going to get an education on prostate cancer; the reason is heart-breaking.
More than one thing can be true at once: President Biden steered this country away from disaster after exemplary service in the Senate and (3/4)
AND I wish he had kept his promise of being a one-term president. We'll never know if a regular election season could have prevented the current fascist regime. (4/4)
But you can be a NYT political reporter & repeatedly say it despite people proving your wrong & then say if Democrats are mad it means you must be right.
The sonographer cried and hugged me. Thankfully the biopsy came back benign but I still needed urgent surgery for tumor removal.
And my case is one of Many I’ve heard of doctors not listening to their patients.