[HN Gopher] I had a double mastectomy - then discovered a termin...
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       I had a double mastectomy - then discovered a terminal tumour in my
       liver
        
       Author : vanilla-almond
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-12-09 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | The stoicism and acceptance in this story is amazing. Well done.
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       | Diagnostic medicine is great, but appears bound up in "we're
       | looking under the lamppost because the light is there" problems:
       | diagnosis of the large mass in the liver has a feel of how tissue
       | density affects recognition of the tumour. The bone cancer
       | probably wasn't caught then because it's found by a different use
       | of diagnostic techniques and screening.
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       | I think I still hope for a whole body predictive scan which can
       | find early signs without having to be told to focus on specific
       | organs or parts of the body.
        
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