Not too many years ago, doctors and the medical field tell people to check for cancer signs themselves, as medical diagnostics for cancer were not as well developed as today. The medical establishment use to show pictures of how women should check for lumps, and how people should be on the look out for signs like chronic coughing. Medicine do more diagnostics now like colonoscopy, mammograms and the like, but medicine still has severe limits on how effective that can catch cancer early. A lot of it has to deal with costs like insurance companies are not going to pay for PET Scans which can catch almost all types of solid cancers at better than pea size. In view that it is still ultimately up to the individual to monitor for cancer, the medical establishment should allow the individual to use diagnostics themselves. The FDA should lay off, unless it can promise to be able to do it all in checking for cancer.
