Advances in the Screening process.

Good Day 

Hope everyone had a good weekend.  Teresa and I were able to start some basic yard work - much much more to go though. 

No jokes today about this one - though a big high five to Canadian research.   For those who did not see the CTV news cast yesterday or today.  A new urine test screening process maybe possible to detect Colorectal Cancer - even in the pre-cancerous stages.  Now hopefully this screening process can done easily and economically enough at the lab level, allowing it to become a standard testing process.  Check out he article it is great.  
Simple Colorectal Cancer Screening.

Was interesting to learn that fecal occult blood  testing is only 30% accurate for Cancer Screening.  Basically what is the point of the test?  30% really that is what is relied on?  That would explain why no one wants to participate and provide the the samples for testing.  I have unfortunately gone through the process - no thank you to ever have to do that again.   The restricted diet for days and the collection process is just not welcoming and then to have testing basically having weather man accuracy is ridiculous.  Now the question to my doctor - what was the purpose of doing this test?  (this test was part of the many tests completed in Jan/Feb when trying to figure out what was wrong - really angered about this)   I can only imagine someone in the future who is in the unfortunate position I was in at the beginning of the year: going through multiple blood and urine tests over the course of weeks, and in their case an answer actually produced because of the testing. That my friends would make me really happy as an advancement in the detection process.  Finding a cure for Cancer is important no argument there.  I advocate spending more research funds to improve screening process's which could save more lives or improve quality of life for many.  The survival rates of early stage detection to later stage is drastically different along with treatment measures.  Hopefully our great Canadian research will produce an economically sound process which in the future we will see as a check box on a requisition page as we go to the lab to pee in a cup.  Simple for all. 


As an added tidbit of info for today:    Dog taught to sniff out Cancer.
(could Cesar do that one?)

Keep smilin

Jason