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Holy shit and they all look like proportionally-sized, fully functioning fingers. Like I've seen polydactyly before, but they never looked like this. Those look so, for lack of a better word, "normal" I wouldn't even notice if I weren't counting because of the title. When polydactyly exhibits by itself, it is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. But don’t conflate whether a trait is dominant or recessive with rarity - the two don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand (or finger-in-finger, as the case may be). Buy it:  Goku And Gohan Kamehameha Nike Just Do It Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Looks like she has postaxial/ulnar polydactyly (her extra fingers are extra pinky fingers). Duplication of any of the central three fingers is way less common than duplication of the pinky or even the thumb. I know about mutations, but I don't think about them. If I saw someone wave at me with 12 fingers, I'm embarrassed to predict how long it would take me to go from "... am I alive? Am I hallucinating? Was that fake? Was that an alien? Was that a glitch in the matrix? What's going on?" to "oh yeah some people have extra digits because biology." Buy it:  LGBT Stitch I Licked It So It'S Mine Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Imagine how weird our long and highly articulated fingers look to other animals, no matter how many of them we have. Along with our massive head full of brains and unsettling shuffling around constantly reared back on our hind legs, we must look like aliens with creepy twitching tentacle-appendages. Yes, for some reason I think relating to the original German name of the dog, german shepherds are referred to as German Shepherd Dog (GSD). Buy it:  Cat Remember To Wipe Vintage Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

That seems unfair given fewer materials are used and less time is spent. It's like when I have super long hair it costs more to get it done but when my hair is short it's cheaper to get things done (styles, colors, etc). They probably assume she won't speak up about it but she should if she's comfortable enough to! It's really interesting because having more fingers is actually a dominant trait ! So you only need one copy of the gene to have extra fingers. So her ancestors probably had it and her kids would most probably also have 6 fingers ! Buy it:  Let Me Check My Giveashitometer Bear Smoking Weed Nope Nothing Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

As a lefty guitarist who tried starting right handed, trying to strum right handed was nearly impossible. There's something about my dominant hand that was able to keep rhythm while my non dominant hand couldn't. Fellow lefty guitarist here. Learning and teaching between lefties and righties is even more natural when you realize that you're basically just looking at a mirror image. Buy it:  I Am A Cheater Girl Vintage Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Former guitar teacher here. That's pretty dumb. You still do the same stuff whether you're righty or lefty. Also, even if you're left-handed, that doesn't preclude you from playing guitar "righty," considering you need both hands to play guitar anyway. You would have just been using your dominant hand for fretting instead of picking. Who cares? Plus, even if you did insist on playing lefty, I feel like it would be easier to mirror your instructor because your hands would be a mirror image of each others. I never taught a lefty, but now I kind of wish I had for that reason.  Buy it:  Unicorn I'M A Nurse I Wear A Bikini I Drink And I Know Things Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

The scar is on the side of each pinky. Not shown is my stubby thumb because my hand is shaped like a ping pong paddle and I couldn't comfortably get it and my pinky in frame at the same time. Me learning to play Rachmaninoff like “thank the pianist heavens I was born with big hands”. I can stretch reach a 12, and the reaches in his pieces still make me cramp just thinking about it lmao. Buy it:  Life Is Better On A Bikers Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I had them, but they were removed the day after I was born from what I was told. I don't think I've ever had any kind of phantom limb thing going on (at least, not on the level of losing an entire arm or leg) but it feels like there's something missing if I'm consciously thinking about them. Never any regular pain or anything, but the scars are more sensitive than my fingers in general and it hurts like fuck if I pinch them in/on something. Buy it:  Best Dad Ever Family Man Bigfoot Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I feel like for a lot of instruments it would be a detriment. Finger placement is so precise, that without a completely new figuration it would be more difficult. Maybe she could get a 5 stringed violin made. I'm having trouble deciding between a B string or a C. There’s also likely a negative bias applied sone some cultures may actually have killed children with it in the past, lessening the chance that you or a potential mate have the gene. Buy  it:  The Temptations 60th Anniversary 1960 2020 Thank You For The Memories Signatures Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

It's a really interesting line. Because the main theme of Gattaca seems to be that you shouldn't allow your physical handicaps to define your place in society or limit your dreams. But there is this stark, undeniable truth that you can't play the pieces they were hearing unless you had six fingers on each hand. I thought it added to the realism of the movie, there are limits to wait a person can do. But just because you can't play those pieces doesn't mean you can't play piano. You aren't prohibited in your passion if you pursue it. Music can be written for the one handed, it's a medium that transcends your body. Buy it:  Never Underestimate An Old Woman With Healing Hands Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

My Mom recently told me about a time at the zoo when me, my two siblings and a bunch of other kids kept asking our parents what those chimpanzees where doing ''with all the moving''. My parents and a bunch of other parents could barely hold their laughter together. So moving from the country to a suburban setting and downsizing our meat production from hogs, goats, sheep, turkey and chickens to a few rabbits makes us the weirdos. Sorry but I'm still a bit sensitive about people protecting their children from nature.  Buy it:  Fishing I Know I Fish Like A Girl Try To Keep Up Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I asked her to tell him how many we have. She explained we have one daddy and three mommies and many babies which we eat when they are big enough. I asked my daughter to wait for me in the hallway. Then I began to berate his accusations and willingness to get CPS involved before even asking her how she knows where babies come from. I walked out asked my girl if she wanted to go to the zoo instead of stay in school the rest of the day and we got a daddy daughter day out of it. So moving from the country to a suburban setting and downsizing our meat production from hogs, goats, sheep, turkey and chickens to a few rabbits makes us the weirdos.  Buy it:  Nurses Back The Blue I'Ve Got Your Six American Flag Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

 I saw my daughter and ignored everyone else and asked her what happened. She told me the story and I laughed out loud. Principal was nearly screaming about how he should call child protection services and blah blah. I just blanked him out. I said to my daughter please explain to this man how you know where babies come from. She explained how we keep and raise rabbits. Then I asked her to tell him why we raise rabbits. She said we eat them. Buy it:  Nice Hold On, Let Me Get A Notebook Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

 Teacher asked if everything was alright. My daughter said yes everything is fine, just that her daddy put his pee pee inside her mommy and she stood up and started humping the air. Well all the kids then were saying eew. Teacher yells go to principals office. My girl had no idea why. I was called in to have an immediate conference and ambushed upon my entrance. I saw my daughter and ignored everyone else and asked her what happened. She told me the story and I laughed out loud. Principal was nearly screaming about how he should call child protection services and blah blah.  Buy it:  Original Feeling Kinda Idgaf Ish Today Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I grew up in the country in a conservative family but close enough to an urban area that the school was mainly suburban kids, not country kids. In first grade, my sister took our new kittens in for show & tell. 1 of the kids asks if it's a boy kitten or girl kitten. She looks between the hind legs and goes, "it's a boy kitten." The teacher had to explain that delicately. This makes me so angry. Please let me rant a bit. My daughter was in 1st grade and one of the girls came in happy and wanted to share her joy with the class. The little girl stood up and announced to the class that her mother was pregnant a baby brother or sister was going to be joining them soon. My daughter made an eew sound. Buy it:  Driving My Husband Crazy One Penguin At A Time Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen elephants engage in a full courting ritual to consummation. Magnificent. We watched it all unfold at our local zoo and my then four-year-old just thought they were giving each other piggyback rides.If you don’t want kids to see animals fucking, sucking or walking around with huge chimp boners then don’t take kids to a place where animals live in close proximity. This happens all the time at zoos, they are animals. Rural conservatives: yep, we bought a good bull for those cows, you can see he's impregnating them so we'll have some good calves for steaks in a year or two. Buy it:  Top Wazzup Mga Ka Noo Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Why are human beings so fucking fragile now a days? You can't stand nature happening in front of your kid? What idiots. I fucking hate parents. All they do is complain that the world is acting naturally in front of their kids, when a simple conversation with the kid about what they saw is actual parenting, and they can't be bothered to do that. Thank God I didn't have parents like that. Funny thing is, the ones complaining about it were most definitely older people, not people from the actual nowadays. Just people who got away with ridiculous requests and expectations back then who expect to still be able to do that nowadays. Buy it:  Show Me Your Tito’s Vintage Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I swear some ppl there have a stick up their ass, making sex ed illegal and getting mad over animals doing completely natural stuff. I saw two giraffes banging at the toronto zoo about two years ago, as I started to leave to give them some privacy a family with 3 children walked in, that must have been an awkward moment for the parents lol. As an owner of two (male) donkeys, I can’t imagine separating them. Mine will literally turn into living tornados when I have to separate them out temporarily for cleaning, etc. Donkeys are extremely sensitive animals emotionally and crave closeness to each other and their humans. Buy it:  Liverpool Champions Of England 2020 Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Like how fucked up do you have to be to put an animal in a cage with a picture window and capture it, its whole life. Then get mad at the mothafucka when he try to get his nut like hes the one who’s fucked up? Politicians were asked about it on the country’s leading news programs. “Animals separated by sex into different cages? It’s complete idiocy,” said Stefan Niesiolowski, a lawmaker with the governing party, Civic Platform. Even the spokesman for Law and Justice, the conservative party that Lydia Dudziak, the one who persuaded the zoo to separate them, belongs to, would not come to her defense. “It’s a level of absurdity … that has been crossed to such an extent that I don’t even want to read or know about this,” Adam Hofman said. Buy it:  Don't Try Me I Can Make Things Weird Really Quickly Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I’m pretty sure the writers changed the main character from a Michael Scott type to Leslie Knope after actually attending local government meetings and realizing how much funnier it would be to have an idealist having to deal with the public. I’m pretty sure the writers changed the main character from a Michael Scott type to Leslie Knope after actually attending local government meetings and realizing how much funnier it would be to have an idealist having to deal with the public. How does it take just 1 or 2 complaints to get them separated? But they needed 7000 signatures to get them back together? Buy it:  Premium Not Everyone Matters Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

When I was a kid, my parents and my aunt and uncle took my cousins and I to the zoo. We were looking at the gorillas and two of them started doing what they do. When he was done the male got up and started beating his chest like King Kong. You know what my parents didn't do? Bitch to the zoo. We just laughed and laughed. When I was like 10 I visited a small zoo with a mandrill exhibit, well that Rafiki looking fucker looked me dead in the eye while jacking off for like 2 minutes straight. Was it completely weird and can I remember it vividly 20 years later? Yes, but what on earth is the point of complaining? They're animals! Buy it: Skull Beautiful Disaster Love Hate Flawsome You Don’T Know My Story Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

 No idea about Poland, but zoos often get funding from public sources. Anger the wrong guy and suddenly you aren't on the list of "arts and cultural" organizations that get funded. Yeah, but a fixed male might still have the appearance of testicles while a fixed female definitely won't have periods. I was at the Atlanta Zoo one summer. They have a summer zookeeper thing where kids are junior zookeepers. Tiger area had a 12 year old kid. (maybe?) Standing there in a uniform, he came up and started telling me about tigers, asking if I had questions, etc. I was there with my 7 y.o. The tigers started mating, (mate, run around for a couple minutes, mate again, repeat. Buy it:  Premium Pineapple Flamingos Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Imagine one of your selling points being, "I separated the lustful donkeys at the zoo! Now you and your children can go to the zoo fuck-free, and it's all because of my dedication to this community." If the children know too much about sex, then they won't be as afraid of sex and romance, then they might experiment with each other, then I can't control which family they marry into. The tribal, le muh heritage mindset never went away, in all parts of the world. India has a formal caste system, making it starkly obvious, but similar thoughts and feelings circulate in social circles globally. Buy it:  Stop Drop And Live Suicide Prevention Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

The local politician. Oh I get what you mean now, why did the zoo separate them? I was referring to the logic of calling for them to be separated, to curry favor with the parents. Maybe the zoo feared being brigaded and picketed and having a hard time dealing with the disruption and distress such things cause. Poland is very catholic.  The couple, together for 10 years, got into trouble when mothers expressed outrage that children had to witness their mating. Local conservative official Lydia Dudziak took up their cause and persuaded the director of the zoo in Poznan to have the animals put in separate pens. Buy it:  Never Underestimate An Old Woman With Dachshund Puppies Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

 Jesus Christ people are stupid. Her friend even says to her, "Ann, they're not going to put a zookeeper in there to stop them right now..." You can just hear the disappointment in her voice at how stupid her friend is, and the dumbass doubles down on it with, "Well, you would think that they would at least spray them or something!!" As if the giant, angry gorilla is a fucking chihuahua. The current ruling party in Poland is ultra Conservative Christians (PiS). I’m going to take a guess that the politician involved in their separation was one of theirs. Buy it:  Snoopy And Woodstock Mummies Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

And that annoys me too. Public schools should teach comprehensive sex ed, and the parents who don't like it can request their child is removed for the classroom for it. Other children should not be denied an education (that has been correlated again and again with lower teenage pregnancies) to cater their your personal beliefs. It baffles me that there are still areas that don't teach it because of these people. Nah, comprehensive sex ed oughta be compulsory. There'd be a LOT fewer kids making stupid life altering decisions if their parents weren't allowed to keep. Buy it:  Snoopy After God Made Me He Said Tada Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I had similarly up front parents, and am pretty honest, but I have a 3.5 year old and there are definitely times when I dodge questions because right this second in a huge crowd is just maybe not the time and place to explain the nuances of duck mating. Ok fair enough! Thanks for the perspective. Putting a hold on the talk until you're at home is fine. I suppose my objection is when parents won't discuss it with children and especially when they expect the world to change to accommodate their weird hangups. Buy it:  Rolling Stones Trump 2020 American Flag Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Also how entitled, horrible of a parent do you have to be to split up an animal pair bEcAuSe of the ChiLdReN!! I hate parents who feel like the world needs to bend over backwards and accommodate their personal parenting style instead of them figuring out how to navigate the world with it. Pure laziness and selfishness. You’re at a zoo, with animals, who do animal things like poop and mate. If little Johnny isn’t able to handle that pick him up and walk away. That's the whole point of a zoo - to learn about animals! Why take them there if you don't want them to learn? Buy it:  I May Live In Pennsylvania But I’ll Always Have The Steelers In My DNA Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

As a Filipino woman I can tell you that marijuana makes you listen to devil music and hypnotizes white women to dance like she’s possessed by Satan. White people only dance to electric guitar. (Look up Chappelle’s show “white peoples cant dance. My wife and I only had sex once for the procreation of our son. Thankfully we have that unpleasant business behind us I can focus on my Interior Design classes and my wife continue her physical fitness training with Raoul. Buy it:  Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 52th Anniversary 1968 2020 Thank You For The Memories Signature Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

In 1930, Harry Anslinger, became the first director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.12 Ansliger was appointed to the position by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, his wife's uncle.13 Ansliger, an avid supporter of prohibition, had minimized the dangers of cannabis before his appointment. Once appointed, he began a campaign based on race and violence. Anslinger did not hide his prejudice, with comments like, “There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, results from marijuana use.   Buy it:  Funny Manchester United B. Fernandes Signature Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

You guys also make up a significantly higher portion of voters, more than us "socialist commy" Bernie supporters and you collectively voted for Biden... He was literally the guy who came up with the idea to take away bankruptcy from college graduates. I'm an older millenial, here's my take: gen x grew up hating and rejecting authority, then didn't really take power politically because they'd conditioned themselves against it.Should be determined whether spreading the virus was his intent. I don't know that he could have done a better job if it was his intent & there is just no ignorance or stupidity excuse that seems to hold any water with Senator Paul. Buy it:  Scott 20 Schrute I Want People To Be Afraid Of How Much They Love Me Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Perhaps it is too much to ask that we simply have compassion for our fellow Americans who are sick or fearful of becoming so.” he said in the statement released by his office. Holy crap. It would be a shame if someone were to find a time where rand Paul didn't show compassion for those who are sick or in fear of becoming sick.  I shouldn’t have been tested, because I was asymtomatic, but I did so out of my own self-interested concern using my free, taxpayer-funded healthcare. Despite that, I acted no differently to protect others and voted against the interests of my fellow Americans. Buy it:   Infinity Gauntlet Fuck Corona Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Wow, this comment actually made me burst out laughing. It was that kind of laugh you get when a burn is so good and yet so spot on that it hurts a little. Every time I meet a libertarian, I just wonder how those ideas survived the journey to adulthood. As soon as you realize how large the world is—how complicated and interconnected the economies and societies of the world are—you know that kind of "good old days" thinking can't work anymore. It's ignorant, unethical, and irresponsible. Your entire ruling elite is going to be purged due to meaningless idiocy, stay safe and best wishes from Spain. Buy it:  John Wick Be Kind To Animals Or I'Ll Kill You Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

I just explained to my college aged son who is begrudgingly getting on board with what we all need to do, that this type of behaviour where you dont give a fuck about anyone but yourself is what the rest of us call being a total dick. The gym wasn't open. On Morning Joe it was revealed that Senators were breaking in and using the unstaffed gym. Apparently they think gyms are cleaned by gnomes or something.  I leave the gym and throw my dirty towels on the floor and come back the next day. Guess what? Towels are gone and there’s a new stack of clean ones! It’s like magic. Buy it:  Baby Yoda Bourbon Because 2020 Sucks Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

For those who want to criticize me for lack of quarantine, realize that if the rules on testing had been followed to a tee, I would never have been tested and would still be walking around the halls of the Capitol," Paul said in a statement. "The current guidelines would not have called for me to get tested nor quarantined. It was my extra precaution, out of concern for my damaged lung, that led me to get tested." I mean he is all for small responsible spending when mitch tells him he can pretend to be a libertarian and can get on his little soap box. He is the guy who blows your life savings on chicken wings but tells you they were low fat so he actually saved you money in a way. Buy it:  Samurai The Fears We Don't Face Become Our Limits Sunset Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Speaking of Boris, the last few days, that is the look of a man who totally got the Monkey Paw wish to be PM. He looks like he's a couple of inches from losing it and probably privately wishes he never got the job. He practiced medicine from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2011. He specialized in eye surgery. The guy should be leading the fucking Senate in isolation measures, not spreading it to everybody. My father's a cardiologist. He's a diehard virus-is-a-hoax-believing, Q-Anon-spouting, Fox-News-Watching, Gold-Coin-Investing Trump voter. He's no more intelligent than either Ben Carson or Rand Paul, and given that he has no financial sense whatsoever and is incapable of distinguishing scam IRS phone calls from official, legitimate correspondence, he very well may be dumber. Buy it:  Never Underestimate An Old Man Who Works At Monat Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

This is every bit the fantasy that Rand Paul also happens to live in. Because there's likely nothing that will teach this privileged, arrogant clod that his worldview is a pile of steaming horse turd. He was not very well spoken, so the stumbling was no act, but he seemed to embrace that weakness and use it to his advantage. Of all the things you can say of him, he isn't dumb. Similar to Borris Johnson, the truly dangerous conservatives are pretending to be dumber than they are to be relatable to their constituents, then American went full dumb-dumb and elected a real moron. Buy it:  Mrs Brown'S Boys 2011 2020 3 Season 36 Episodes Thank You For The Memories Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

It’s a real quote. He added that Ted Cruz is an "inspiration to every kid in America who worries that he'll never be able to run for president because nobody likes him. Maybe Rand Paul has finally figured out that every human being in the world does not live in a hermetically sealed bubble within which they can perfectly manage every aspect of their personal existence and that Libertarianism is a trash ideology for plutocrats and children who are mad that their parents make them do chores around the house. Buy it:  White House 100 Day Donald Trump Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

None of them take responsibility which in turn translates to their supporters never holding them accountable. I’ve met a lot of “liberals” who criticize people like Obama and the Clintons and Biden. I haven’t ever met a Republican who could even admit what their person did was wrong.  “I want to talk to the Trump supporters for a moment. I don’t know who you are, and I don’t know why you like this guy, I think what you like about him is he appears to be strong and the rest of us are weak. He’s a very successful businessman and he’s going to make everything great. He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn't represent my party. He doesn't represents the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.   Buy it:  You Can Drive A Hippie Van And That'S Kind Of The Same Thing If You Can'T Buy Happiness Vintage Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any advocating or wishing death/physical harm, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban. And they aren’t even supposed to be using the gym. It was locked but they were using a code to get in. I guess only us simple people without jobs have to do social distancing. frighteninginthedark. Maybe it's one of those non-brain-eating-but-really-pissed-off ones. I know every time I see Rand Paul, I want to bite him. Buy it:  Never Underestimate A Woman Who Works At O'Reilly Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

That's not entirely true, part of it is that many chemo drugs have a lifetime dose due to toxicity, meaning you can't give more of them after one series of treatments. Yes that’s exactly how one rather large company’s colon cancer stool screener works. It basically uses an extraction process to isolate the DNA by liquifying stool. They then microassay and it generates a number or risk level, if it’s above the determined threshold it’s considered a positive flag. For all stool samples a device (typically called a toilet hat) should be provided to avoid contamination from toilet water. It provides the most accurate study. Buy it:  Official Gnomiestore Touchdown New England Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

But, if you were trying then it wasn't a waste. It may feel like you've gone through a lot without guarantees, but cancer just doesn't share it's game plan. All we can do is provide the best course of treatment that the data supports, and do everything we can to bring comfort during that difficult time. I hope for the best for your mother and your family, and I hope that more advancements like the OP mean that less families like ours have to experience this anxiety (my Mom had to have a mastectomy last year and had another scare like 2 weeks ago, so I'm very familiar). Buy it:  Maryland I Still Call It Home Vintage Retro Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

 hope someone with more human experience than me jumps in here, but I work in an animal hospital that does most of the cancer treatment for animals in our state. Treatment for cancer is never an exact science. Its precise, and tons of consideration and calculation goes into each treatment, but the fact is that every single body is different and is going to react in its own unique way. Sometimes this results in miraculous recoveries, and sometimes it means we say goodbye sooner than we expected. Does the survival of strong cancer cells mean that Chemo was a waste, or that they didn't undergo treatment long/harshly enough? Buy it:  Official Baby Groot Wendy's Logo Halloween  Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Chemo is really more of a one shot deal...if it doesn’t kill 100% of the cells, only the strong ones will be left To reproduce. That’s why it’s so devastating to have cancer treatment not work the first time. I am not a doctor, so this may not be true for all drugs. I had a husband go through first and second line treatments, and was true in his particular case. He was on a total of 12 chemo drugs over three years. My mom recently finished her Chemotherapy treatments after a bout with breast cancer, and the anxiety of it coming back or the subsequent treatment has taken over her life, like she is expecting it to come back regardless. Buy it:  Heavy Metal And Beer That's Why I'm Here Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

But a lot of cancer is treated just through chemotherapy. It's not targeted for, say, throat cancer as opposed to colon cancer. They're just hoping the chemo will shrink or maybe even kill the tumor. So, I'm asking, wouldn't chemo still work in the early stages? I don't have an answer to this, but something I asked one of my profs about in medical school was "Would it be a good idea to periodically give chemo to everybody over a certain age, knowing they likely have some early cancerous cells?" The obvious answer was no, given the low overall incidence of cancer and the indiscriminate damage that chemo can do to healthy cells, even potentially causing cancer. Buy it:  I Don't Have Ducks Or A Row I Have Flamingos And They Are Everywhere Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

The main reason that certain types of cancer have such low survival rates (pancreatic, for example) isn't because they're necessarily any worse or deadlier than the other kinds, it's because their victims don't tend to display any symptoms until the disease has advanced to a stage of spreading to other parts of the body. This won't be much of a game changer for cancers where people can easily screen for tumors at home (breast and testicular cancer, for example), but could potentially be huge for detecting cancerous formations in your internal organs. Buy it:  Baby Yoda I Don't Care What Day It Is It's Early I'm Grumpy I Want Dr Pepper Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Sure, you're right, and depending on which cancer it is, answers change. I'll update my original to reflect that. You might be able to treat it, you might not, but regardless, more info and earlier detection and monitoring is the most important aspect of treating cancer.  Anything that can detect cancer before we can see it and before any other symptoms set in is huge. Even if treatment isnt possible at that time the monitoring is the next best thing. At least you know there's something to be worried about. Buy it:  Bowie State HBCU Black Ivy League Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Well it's my understanding that the genes they are looking for in the blood screens can be general to cancers (meaning that many cancer types share this gene being expressed) and also genes that can be specific to certain cancer types. Having these could inform early treatment as gene expression levels are usually what they base treatment on (as well as type).  So while they may not be able to see it to just straight up cut it out, they could always try to just kill it with drugs before it becomes worse (especially since if a tumor has reached the blood stream there is a much greater chance of metastasis no matter the size). Buy it:  Central State HBCU Black Ivy League Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Actually pessimistic or not it’s a viable concern to have. I’m a realist so the possibility could happen as it would be a preexisting condition. Now we need an optimist to comment. What rock have you been living under? Pre existing conditions haven’t been a reason to deny or charge more for insurance in the US for about 6 years now.  I was referring to the increased rates for pre-existing conditions, which is much less cut-and-dried. I agree it'd be near impossible to outright deny someone for pre-existing conditions. Buy it:  Official Goku That’s What I Do I Drink Coffee I Hate People And I Know Things Vintage Retro Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt

Reminds me where I live, they just approve insurance rates increase instead of fixing the reason behind the need to increase (such as not making needed for using winter tires or giving discounts for using them to encourage use and reduce costs. Health insurance, is an oxymoron. Theirs no health in an insurance companies operation. They make money or they drop you at the first chance they get. Buy it:  Official Rick And Morty Pew Pew Madafakas Vintage Halloween Shirt Premium Trending Shirt This Season: Valleytee - Custom - T-shirt