It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.
If one delays the treatment of a disease, one does not recover quickly.
Cancer Doesn’t Care How Busy You Are. Make an appointment!
A large proportion of the people who die of cancer need not have if they had been screened earlier and treated.
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.
The problem with my mother is that she didn't go to the doctor. And I think by the time she started to show symptoms that something might not be right, and finally went to the doctor, she was so close to her death that she couldn't get the care she had needed. Her big issue was not going to the doctor.
It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.