Blood Drug Testing

would i know if i had cancer from a blood test?

i have an enlarged lymph node on my left side of my neck. i showed this to my doctor and she sent me for a catscan. when the catscan came back my doctor checked the results and said it was enlarged but that she wouldn't worry about it and to come back in october for another check on it. during this time i had many blood tests done checking for different things including one where if a certain something in my blood was high or low it would suggest that something what wrong but it came out normal. am I just being paranoid? i feel like i have cancer and may be dying. i also have a tiny bump directly underneath my earlobe. serious answers please, i hardly sleep at night about this. i may just be overreacting but i feel like no one is caring about this but me.

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1. You need to call your doctor and address your concerns with her. If you are really this concerned about it...this is not the place to be asking questions. I had a scare like this a few years ago and when I found out it was just that...a scare, I broke down and cried and couldn't believe how scared to ask I had been for so long. Call your doctor. Research for yourself, take your care into your hands. Your doctor can't read your mind and you need to vocalize your concerns. Talk to her. I hope it all turns out well for you.
2. Blood tests can in fact find out whether or not you have cancer, but you don't seem to have cancer. When you have cancer you start to be really frail.... Anyways, you don't seem like a candidate for a cancer by your symptoms.
3. dont worry about its nothing the chances of it being cancer is very slim because theres over 200 things that cause lymph nodes to be enlarged like infections and even from colds i know what its like always feeling like your gonna die from cancer its a very scary feeling but i dont think you should be worried
4. if the catscan looked normal and your blood tests have been normal, then most likely you're a'ok. I've been going through the same thing myself since April (found lymph nodes in neck and groin) - had blood tests, etc. If it was anything too serious, you would have more of them and they would be getting noticeably bigger. I know what you're going through though - since I have been edgy and paranoid since april. I go back for a follow up in October too. Just keep an eye on them and go to your docs if they get bigger or if you notice any other symptoms i.e fever, rash, sweating, weight loss..
5. FIRST OF ALL I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL.BLOOD TESTS WILL LET THEM KNOW IF YOU WHITE CELL ARE HIGH THEY WILL DO OTHER TEST .JUST PRAY IT WORK.
6. Cancer cells give off HCGH, which is what pregnancy tests measure. Take a pregnancy test. The following was copied from an Internet news group. Why would I rely on your backward methods for diagnosing cancer, that is, with invasive procedures such as biopsies and radiation from CT scans?? Are you aware that when a person has cancer they have elevated levels of hCGH in their urine? This can sometime be detected with a pregnancy test if the hCGH levels are high enough. Because I had a dozen visible lesions or more and testicular pain, I screened myself with a simple pregnancy test. In my case the levels were high enough to register positive. Since I'm a man, and I had lesions and pain, it was quite obvious that I had cancer. So once again, the macabre ways you are familiar with for diagnosing and treating cancer patients are unnecessary. Let me add a caveat, pregnancy tests don't always show positive when a person has cancer because the hCGH levels aren't always high enough. But if they are high enough...bingo! It's a great way to to uncover cancer cheaply and painlessly. There is a more sophisticated pregnancy test that is about 98% accurate and picks up malignancies six months to two years prior to other methods of screening. The downside to that test right now is that you have to send away for the results and there is a six week turn around on the results. One more thing. The hCGH conection is yet another piece of evidence that cancer cells are trophoblast cells that have been turned on. It's the unitarian theory of cancer which was first discovered by a Dr. Beard about 100 years ago. Trophoblast cells release hCGH as a byproduct of its activity. In pregnancy it plays a role in producing life by invasively eating a niche in the uterine wall. In cancer, the same invasiveness causes destruction. But the trophoblast cells can be turned off easily as my own case helps to demonstrate. In conclusion, in this thread we're discussing the merits of a variety of deadly chemo agents in a case that is so far advanced that the only outcome from the chemo is going to be negative. It's a case of 'pretending' to be doing something. The doctors want to help. Unfortunately their tools aren't suited to the task. But psychologically they must believe, especially when it can be difficult to tell the patient you have nothing to offer them. Meanwhile, the only methods that work are the ones that turn off the trophoblast cells while supporting the healthy cells....which happen to be the vast majority of the cells. Chemo fails in the latter. And instead of turning off the trophoblast cells, they kill them. It's a recipe for disaster. If you get bad news, check out isbn 9781890035600, it works! Best of luck.