Thread by @perfectrose2011

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis As a Critical Care RN in both Paediatrics and Adult care over 34 years, I can say you are uneducated about aggressive cancers. Your assumption that annual checks will be sufficient for cancer diagnosis are unfounded. IF after testing, a mainly asymptomatic cancer begins, it 1/2

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis can then be undetected for those 12 months passing by. There are various types of cancers which are more aggessive than others of the same location. Some brain tumours with few symptoms can be lethal very quickly and others have dramatic symptoms like a seizure with detection 2/3

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis due to testing. I cared for one neurosurgical patient post op who had a tumour the size of a lemon when removed but only in two weeks prior had been complaining of a headache. The type of cells in that cancer meant it was not aggressive and the patient had a low chance of 3/4

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis metastases (spreading). Another patient I cared for had a brain tumour the size of a walnut yet it's cellular biopsy done as a rapid pathology while the patient is still in the OR came back as highly aggressive and meaning the surgeon would be searching for more very small 4/5

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis masses in the patient's brain. That patient probably would not have had a good outcome at all. It's the same with prostate cancers. For you to make the comment you did is foolish as without any medical training, you do not know what you are talking about. Consider how sadly 5/6

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis many children including teens may complain of mild discomforts which can be overlooked and finally when the child's complaints either have serious symptoms or a scan is done, a cancer can be growing and spreading with that child being terminally ill. A nurse friend of mine 6/7

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis with a teen son who was 'healthy' but complained of some abdominal pains on and off. Given advice for over the counter analgesic, after about 3 months, the mom insisted on an MRI. It showed cancer (Hodgkins Lymphoma) had spread throughout his abdomen. He died just 2 months 7/8

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis later. So consider before you make comments as you did here and make it seem it is a very funny circumstance. It is never. I had a cancer diagnosed when I was only 27 years old, a leiomyosarcoma which on surgical removal (gyne. surgery) was 4.5 inches in diameter and I had 8/9

@ItsColbyTime @ClayTravis few symptoms. My chance of survival was only about 22% but I was fortunately one of the survivors of this very rare cancer. At the time I was a working RN as well, had 2 surgeries necessary as prevention of a recurrence & had 7 years of check-ups till I was 34. Cancer is no joke.

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