I get the fickle finger every year with my annual medical. If you're getting a PSA prostate blood test the finger will sometimes up the reading. So will getting riding a bicycle or getting naughty.
There are different cancers. Some move slowly and some are fast.
The body often adapts and systems are "Ah I'm just getting old" and then the hammer drops. One doesn't need to become a hypochondriac but my brother ignored signs, attributing them to a car crash a few years earlier. When he started slurring his words he went for a check out and found that he had stage four lung cancer. He rarely smoked, a cigar a couple of times year. He lasted a month as it had gone to the brain. Mess with the brain and it stops controlling the other organs that keep you alive.
