This is a repost with an explanation to follow. VG ---------- > From: VGammill <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>Off topic: biopsies > Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 2:16 PM > > > Harry writes: > > I have heard that a biopsy will cause the cancer fluids (cells) to spread > > throughout the body. Is this true? > > List: > This a good question. Some cancer such as melanomas spread quickly > with tampering, others such as basal cell and most squamous, don't. It is > a judgement call. If you are immunocompromised or if you lean to electing > a treatment that surpresses immunity, you might choose not to. If > knowledge of type, grade, differentiation is going to inform your choice of > therapy, then you must. If you have an alternative treatment in mind that > ignores these distinctions--including some of the quite effective cancer > diets--why bother? > > > I also understand that a dark field microscopic examination of the blood > can > > determine if their are cancer cells in the blood. Is this as reliable -- > or > > more reliable -- than a biopsy? > > Darkfield can be helpful, but too many people are doing this with only > modest skills and so often they are trying to sell you something. Biopsy > is as reliable as the pathologist who reads it. > > > Are their other methods that can give > > reliable determination of the presence of cancer cells in the body? > > Depending on what type of cancer you are looking for, tumor markers > (blood tests) can be very helpful. AMAS and AMTL are good if you don't > know. One of the simplest and best would be a delayed type > hypersensitivity reaction (skin test) to GalGalNAc. It can routinely tell > you if you will be diagnosed with cancer during the next six years or so. I > don't think the insurance companies got wind of it yet! > > Good luck! > > Vincent Gammill >
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