• Question: How much time is there between when you first get cancer to when you realise you might have it?

    Asked by larryandharry to Gioia, Iain, Jo, Leo, Mariam on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Joanna Watson

      Joanna Watson answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Some cancers can take a really long time to grow to the point where they cause symptoms and get diagnosed – it can be 10 or 20 years in some cases.

    • Photo: Mariam Orme

      Mariam Orme answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      It really depends on the cancer. Some are easy to spot very early on, if you’re checking for lumps and for moles that change or spread; while for others it can be very hard to spot anything wrong, so it can take a very long time to realise you have cancer.

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