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Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:28 am  |
We get a lot of these in the mail and I am deciding whether to have one done...does anyone have any advice regarding quality/outcomes of screenings pro or con?
We live in a small community and two in our community have had illnesses discovered and are being treated. One with a blocked carotid and one with cancer. I'm not sure what type of screening the one with cancer had done. It would seem that to catch a liver cancer, it would have to be a body scan. Thanks!
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:07 am |
| My hubby give the heart screenings to each other every Valentines. In our area it is 3 screenings together and takes about 30 min. They are a very good preventive and cost about 60-80.00 per person if you sign up for the special! I do not know about cancer, it was strictly heart for us. |
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Joined the 50 club several years back, blonde w/ fair/sensitive skin, Texas humidity and prone to rosacea, light breakouts and sunburns, combo skin type, starting to see sundamage and fine lines |
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:00 am |
| MaryClaire wrote: |
We get a lot of these in the mail and I am deciding whether to have one done...does anyone have any advice regarding quality/outcomes of screenings pro or con?
We live in a small community and two in our community have had illnesses discovered and are being treated. One with a blocked carotid and one with cancer. I'm not sure what type of screening the one with cancer had done. It would seem that to catch a liver cancer, it would have to be a body scan. Thanks!
Mary |
For carotid screen they need to do a carotid duplex and for AAA they need to do an ultrasound. In theory, men who smoked (aged 65-75) should get screened. The prevalence of AAA in women is very low.
Sadly full body scans don't really work... research done on it so far has shown that people who get body scans don't die less or later than people who did not get full body scans. The thing with imaging is that it is a "targetted" test. You, as a radiologist, sort of need what to look for. So with a full body scan the radiologist is sent in some sort of fishing expedition and thus the chances of missing stuff are high.
For now, according to research, (and scientific knowledge keeps evolving) the best things to extend life include:
a. The "blue zones" elements: balanced diet, physical activity, low stress, social/emotional support
b. No smoking, little drinking, keeping a healthy weight, did I already mention physical activity?
c. The regular screening schedules which will depend on your risk factors, etc.
We will all die so at least for me, the important thing is going to be "how" I die. More and more we see on the floors of the hospital women that were overweight and had high blood pressure that then developed diabetes, then because of the diabetes and HBP developed kidney disease and heart disease and then end their days with multiple admissions to the hospital, not being able to breath due to pulmonary edema, etc, etc... that's just terrible. Or people with COPD unable to breath even despite oxygen.
Sometimes even when we think we're doing everything right still things go wrong, so I do realize that my death will not only depend of the things I do in life but on fate.
OK don't know why I got so deep and speaking about death... yikes! It must be all the free time 
All the best! |
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