[Sherryg683]

This has been debated many times and I still say the same. I had no physical symptoms at all when I was diagnosed stage IV with lung mets. Had I waited till there were symptoms, i might have been dead. John Hopkins posted on their website that cases where mets were small in number were easier treated than those where there were many mets. Makes sense, especially in brain mets where number and size mean alot. Being stage IV, I choose to have scans done to make sure that if something does pop up, I will treat it promptly. I will not wait for symptoms that may not develop until it's too late. If I were early stage cancer, I'd have a different approach..