Cancer is ****ing evil - my family has too much

[jdubya]

Originally Posted by Monticore

Pretty much much every CT or ultrasound has as incidental benign finding that ends up needing more imaging or follow ups that will never amount to anything . Thyroid nodules are probably the cancer we spends the most money on and there hasn’t been a change in mortality or morbidity in 50 years , been doing yearly ultrasound on the same people for 25 years even the ones that do get there thyroid removed for cancer we still do yearly F/u for possible recurrence, which I think I have see once in that time span.

I had throat cancer and was successfully treated. I asked my surgeon if I needed to get scans every year and he said, "No, too many false positives and we do more damage looking and or treating". He is treating me only if I have symptoms.