Cancer Research

[den]

When you go in for your mamogram, you'll just breathe on the dog.

(found on 21st Century Fox forum)

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[pipibluestockin]

At last! A preferrable alternative to have a perfectly nice breast squashed flat between to plates (which is how they try to do a mamogram now).

I know some perfectly nice polite old ladies who have resorted to swearing and declaring not another test unless the nice doctor risks his small and furries first, thank you very much.

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[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

Wait, what if the doctor is female?

[canisrufus-uk.livejournal.com]

Everything we do, we find mother nature has done first.... That is truly uncanny, what else might a dog be able to smell?

[ka-crow.livejournal.com]

Would this count as a PET scan? :>

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I remember reading an article about a cancer dog being trained at a center here in the bay area a few years ago. The doctor interviewed said the hardest part was to teach the dog not to identify (by placing a paw on the patient's foot) without being told to do so. Once the dog walked into the lobby of the treatment center and put his paw on a patient's foot without being told to do so. Fortunately, the man had already been told he had cancer. But imagine knowing about cancer dogs, and having the dog come in and identify you before you'd even had a test. Ack!

Breath on the dog

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Sheesh. Sounds like the new austere Kaiser Hospital practices to save money. "Now that you've breathed on the dog, please lie here and allow this Persian to walk around you for a moment."

"What?!? What's that for?"

"It's a *cat* scan." }:xD

Oh, that is seriously cool!

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

I'm thrilled to see this kind of research - partly because I hope it will encourage a lot more people to get mammograms (anything that doesn't hurt is more likely to get done, I would think), and partly because it's so non-invasive.

I have to confess, as well, that I will be getting my first mammo this year (I turn 35 in June) and am somewhat nervous about the whole thing.

Pain isn't limited to the female gender, eh-heh

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Try having a testicular cancer palpation exam done by a busy, masochistic doctor. Or my fursonal favorite, the prostate exam. (I wouldn't mind 'em so much if they weren't so *short* heehee).

My doctor just told me that when I turn 50 next year, I get to look forward to having a yearly sigmoidoscope exam. Joy. A 12" long flexible probe shoved up my tailhole. *Shudders*

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[pipibluestockin]

"You first!"

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I've heard that a better method than the mammogram would be developed if men had to have their penis squashed flat between the plates.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Breathing on the dog would be the lab work.

Re: Pain isn't limited to the female gender, eh-heh

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I am of That Age (over 40) when I should be having prostate exams but I've put it off, mainly because I'm not so thrilled about the examination. Unlike Some People I'm not too keen on a finger up the clacker. 8)

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the mammo. Don't be too nervous: the alternative is unbearable.

I'm hoping they may come up with something for prostate and teticular cancers. Just wizz in a cup for the dog.

Dogs, Bat spit anticoagulants... soon dorctor's surgeries will look like a vets.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Good crow! Biscuit for you 8)

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

oops.

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[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and believe me, I'll get the thing regardless of how I feel. Both my grandmothers had breast cancer and my mom had an anomalous lumpy thing a few years ago (which disappeared when they went to biopsy it), so I don't plan on taking any chances.

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[pipibluestockin]

That is the general consensus of opinion, yes.