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In response to links posted by P_Al:
Sorry for the delay in getting back here...there are problems within suite101 making navigation more difficult to get to current discussions on whatever topic. Current posts are immediately transfrred to 'read only' due to some unexplainerd process.

Carcinoma in situ a cancer or not? Methinks "a rose by any other name..."
Here's a link re breast cancer where examinations pick up pre-cursors:
http://www.breastcancer.org/dia_pict_can...
This raises the aspects of pre-cursors, non-invasive and invasive cancers and highly aggressive forms compared to the much more slower growing versions. Metastasis et al.
Also in the strictest sense, which 'carcinomas in situ' require absolutely NO monitoring at any stage?
So, i'm thinking 'cancer' ought to have a more patient-focus functional sense to the term. But hey...I'm no expert.

"By the way, you made a point about not all tumours being cancer..."

Sorry...I was expecting the article to be stand-alone on those points. It's hard to provide hotlinks to specific points covered in more detail elsewhere as it is an ask to read all preceding articles.

On checking, you make the point there "Benign tumours lack the ability to spread..." Its interesting that carcinomas in situ do NOT lack this ability.

I'm currently awaiting a biopsy for a skin cancer on my nose. Treatment will involve a skin graft over maybe half my nose. The SCC has more to be worried about than the BCC and I've had a squamous cell carcinoma removed from the other side of my nose a few years back. Incredulously, I've been referred to a plastic surgeon who bulk bills under our Medicare system.

-- posted by redback