Re: Does anyone else worry about blood clots in the leg all the time??
Originally Posted by
BlueIris
I get you completely. I know these things are rare, but I also know about the wife of a friend who died of colon cancer when she was barely thirty.
We all know at least one person who suffered from something like this. Some may know 2 or 3. But how many people we know who didn't get it? Many, many more.
Originally Posted by
BlueIris
I was 38 when I was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma (probably more like 33 when it first showed up, I panicked and left it absolutely ages) and I've never been a sun-worshipper; the chances of me randomly getting a skin cancer were vanishingly rare, but it happened.
BCC is not rare, in fact it is the most common cancer in the US. It might be rare in the 30s, but given the high prevalence in general, even 5% of all cases equates to a significant number. I get you though, nobody expects any kind of cancer when they are in the 30s.
Originally Posted by
BlueIris
You never read about the tens of thousands of people who go to their doctors and find they have something absolutely innocent, so if your mind's inclined that way it can be really hard to believe you won't be the one in a million.
Exactly! I recently read a paper about a woman whose doc thought she had a cyst, and it ended up being cancer. Those stories are publicized. But what is not told is that per each horror story like that there are millions of people who went in thinking they had cancer and it was just a cyst. Hypochondriacs need to read more stories like this.
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