Carol Ann Ryser, M.D.
"I believe that people with high
risk in their family of cancer, or people over 45 or 50 should
definitely take the test. People over 45 or 50 should be screened with
the AMAS Test in the same way people receive routine mammographies and
other kinds of tests including the PSA. I think the AMAS Test should
be included."
Carol Ann Ryser, M.D.
"I believe that people with high risk in their family of cancer, or people over 45 or 50 should definitely take the test. People over 45 or 50 should be screened with the AMAS Test in the same way people receive routine mammographies and other kinds of tests including the PSA. I think the AMAS Test should be included.
In my practice I've also used this test effectively in patients with clinical symptoms that are not clear: i.e . vague clinical symptoms. To give you a short example a 35 year old woman was having pelvic pain and she had just delivered a baby. She had seen several physicians. They diagnosed here with irritable bowel but they didn't know what was going on, so she came to see me. I did the AMAS because the pain was getting more severe and more intense for her and no one could see anything. The AMAS TEST was positive. So I called one of my Oncology/Gyn friends and said you have got to look over this lady very carefully. There is something going on in her pelvis. Amazingly they found a small malignant tumor at the junction of the cervix and the vaginal wall -a very small little knot. They took it out. The pain went away. Her AMAS came back to normal after three or four months and that was two or three years ago and she's been healthy ever since. It was a malignant tumor. It is phenomenal. And of course her family is grateful, three children, and her husband. Most people who come in will have some area in their body they are complaining about. She had focused discomfort and pain- clinical symptoms. When you zero in on that area first and then you expand to other general evaluations, you usually are able to find the source of the problem. This a classic example where a young lady would have probably developed severe cancer over the next two years. It was exciting to find the cancer early.
I rely on colleagues in the relevant areas of specialty to explore the lung, the breast. They do their part of the evaluation. I use the AMAS Test with my patients as part of the total review which includes family history, personal history, physicians review. I use all of the diagnostic tests together."
Carol Ann Ryser, M.D.
Kansas City, MO
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