Question: at which stage is the cancer the most easiest n effective to treat?

Sarah Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2011:

It is eaier and more effective to treat cancer in it’s earlt stages, when the tumours are still small. There’s two reasons for this: firstly, tumors can break off and spread to new parts of the body so ideally you want to treat it BEFORE that happens. This makes it easier to target, and also less chance of it ‘coming back’. The other reason is that the longer it grows, the more intergrated it gets into your system. Say it’s growing on an organ like the kidney, the longer it lives there, when it comes to operate, the more difficuly it is to save the kidney and so it’s likely that the only way to get rid of the cancer is to remove the whole organ. This is ok if it’s your kidney because you have 2 of them but what happens if it’s another major organ??

Also i’ve just though of another reason. In late stage cancer, the cancer feeds off the bodies natural resources, it steals nutrients and energy aweay from the rest of the body. This makes the patient really weak. A lot of cancer therapies are very hard on the patient which means if they are really weak, the therapy can really take it out of them and leave them unable to fight the cancer, and sometimes if they are really weak, the therapy can even kill them.

That is why I am working on a diagnostic blood test to help doctors diagnose patients that have cancer as early as possible, to get them on their treatment while it is still going to be most effective.