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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused about her diagnosis...she said she had no symptoms. is it standard to have blood tests and check white cell counts after having a baby? I don't remember that.[/quote]

Yes, I think it's pretty commonly done when the body goes through trauma like childbirth. Also any time there's a major infection, major allergic reaction, etc.

[b]I know a couple other young people who had similar stories--cancer discovered not because they had symptoms but during a routine blood test or a blood test related to some other procedure/event.[/b][/quote]

So why aren't we given blood tests for cancer as a regular part of our annual exams?[/quote]

Blood cancer *would* show up in your yearly CBC, because it substantially alters white blood count from normal.

The majority of other cancers don’t show up in a routine blood test.

CA125 can be used to monitor for relapse in ovarian cancer survivors, but it is unreliable as a way universal screening test for various reasons.

Development of testing for cancers is one of the avenues of research that RFK Jr has slashed funding for.

By the way, we are all growing cancer cells in our bodies pretty much all the time in adulthood. For the great majority of us our immune systems attack these abnormal cells and we don’t develop a course of cancer illness. One of the greatest avenues of current research is the ways that mRNA technology can be harnessed to create vaccines that stimulate our bodies to destroy developing cancer cells. The evidence that it works already exists, but the technology and application needs more refining. This is another area of medical research that RFK Jr has slashed from the federal funding of biomedical research.

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