Has anyone explained to him in a lay man’s language what an ‘emvryo’ is? and why men have nipples?

Something has been missed in every post here - this girl is the mother of 2 small boys who probably adore her beyond comprehension! OK, she rose to fame by being dim-witted and a little vulgar but she has children who need her!!!

Best wishes Jade - I hope you make a speedy recovery and that fate has some nice surprises in store for your little ones xxx

if the thing hadn’t been found in the first place, most of them would have lived to a natural old age and never known they’d had one.

if, say, 1 in 5 people with a condition die naturally, but 2 in 5 die while being treated for the condition, then the tests are actually costing lives.

it’s not actually done here is it. certainly not routinely.

‘The proponents tout it as a means of detecting serious conditions early; the problem is, as I have noted, that the radiation from such scans is much, much higher than the bog standard x-rays people are accustomed to. That is a recognised cause of cancers.
And yes, medics argue about such things….’

well yes. i’m just wondering what any of this has got to do with a false positive pap smear which is how it all started.
i think in america, as in what you describe, that’s one extreme, i think here we have the opposite problem, serious conditions being missed/not diagnosed or wronglydiagnosed and hence the wrong treatment or none at all, or treatment that is too late or insufficient and so on and so forth.

The Offspring came across an advert today in a British paper offering whole body screening to private patients; this sort of thing is common in the States where tests and treatments of all kinds are heavily advertised, but much rarer here.

The proponents tout it as a means of detecting serious conditions early; the problem is, as I have noted, that the radiation from such scans is much, much higher than the bog standard x-rays people are accustomed to. That is a recognised cause of cancers.

And yes, medics argue about such things….

‘I read it that she had had a biopsy done as she had symptoms and felt unwell enough to go to hospital last week.
Hence my curiosity at why she went into the BB House in India in the first place knowing the results were due.’

perhaps she didn’t think it was cancer and the biopsy was done routinely ?

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Sky News…. The news was broken to the 27-year-old when she spoke to her consultant in the UK by telephone but the conversation was not filmed.
After being told the results of a recent biopsy, she burst into tears and ran into the house in hysterics, shouting: “I have cancer.”

well in my case it was a matter of have no cervix or eventually die i think.

‘Hence the ongoing arguments in the medical profession.
An obvious example would be whole body scanning, touted as a means of catching diseases at an early stage, but likely to result in cancers as a result of the high doses of radiation needed…’

but who does that ? is that normal practise ? or do you think it might become one along the lines of a yearly scan to check one hasn’t got cancer, or what ? i am totally unaware of these on going arguments in the medical proffession about this ?

As Nosey has noted, nothing in life comes for free. There is no such thing as a risk free treatment for anything; it is always a question of evaluating the risks.

Hence the ongoing arguments in the medical profession.

An obvious example would be whole body scanning, touted as a means of catching diseases at an early stage, but likely to result in cancers as a result of the high doses of radiation needed…

ah, thanks. but surely they test again before commencing treatment ? especially a radical one ?

‘I’m pleased that you’re OK, must be a big worry for you though.’

oh it was ages ago. i think i was lucky, its often a symptomless disease.