# Cancer survivors, or loved ones of cancer victims, what were the first signs there was something wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-survivors-or-loved-ones-of-cancer-victims-what-were-the-first-signs-there-was-something-wrong/924254 "2020-10-30T00:03:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-survivors-or-loved-ones-of-cancer-victims-what-were-the-first-signs-there-was-something-wrong/924254/41 "2020-11-01T23:05:54Z")
My heart goes out to everyone posting who has suffered or suffered loss. It’s an awful disease and a very frightening thing. I’ve had a cancer and a precancer, and I’m good; so I’m not sure whether I should describe myself as lucky or unlucky. The (skin) precancer was during a period of immunosuppression (for UC). They tell you to be very careful about exposure to sun, so when I found a dry, flaky patch on my face I had it checked out - caught it at the precancerous stage when they can just whiz it off with a liquid nitrogen spray. So I guess I was looking out for that one, because of the immunosuppression. The bladder cancer story I detailed in [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot/846092). I pissed blood - once. If you have UC, it gets you into the habit of looking, if you know what I mean, and so that’s how I noticed. Turns out that pissing blood gets you into the system fast-tracked. (As a follow up to the earlier thread, I had my second follow-up on Thursday, and I’m still clear. One more follow-up to go.) j --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-survivors-or-loved-ones-of-cancer-victims-what-were-the-first-signs-there-was-something-wrong/924254)._