Can you have tests even if you have no symptoms?
I'm a girl and I'm 23 years old, and I was just wondering, am I able to go have tests done to see if I have any type of Cancer, even if I don't have any symptoms?
In recent years I've come to realise just how common Cancer is, not just Cervical or Breast Cancer. And it is very worrying.
By the way I live in Great Britain, I say this because I'm not sure if other places are different when they deal with checks such as these.
So yeah, am I able to get any checks done, just by phoning up my Doctor and saying "Hey, I don't have any symptoms of Cancer, but can I use your Cancer detection machine thingy, to make sure I haven't got it, and if I have early signs, could ya get rid of it for me? Cheers!"
I don't know what your health insurance will pay for, but a lot of tests are done for cancer before you have symptoms. That's kind of the point. However, most of them wont' be done at your age.
You should be having routine pap smears. If you have spent a lot of time in the sun, you should get a mole check. Routine breast exams and rectal exams should be done with the pap smear. And of course blood tests.
But more invasive things, like mammograms, colonoscopies, etc., are something to do when your are 40ish.
Cancer isn't that common at your age.
There is no such thing as a cancer detection thingy. If you are talking about CT scans or MRI, that's unnecessary, a waste of time and money, and exposes you to radiation, increasing your chance of caner.
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