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DNA-Based Test Can Spot Cancer Recurrence a Year Before Conventional Scans (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A revolutionary blood test has been shown to diagnose the recurrence of cancer up to a year in advance of conventional scans in a major lung cancer trial. The test, known as a liquid biopsy, could buy crucial time for doctors by indicating that cancer is growing in the body when tumors are not yet detectable on CT scans and long before the patient becomes aware of physical symptoms. It works by detecting free-floating mutated DNA, released into the bloodstream by dying cancer cells. In the trial of 100 lung cancer patients, scientists saw precipitous rises in tumor DNA in the blood of patients who would go on to relapse months, or even a year, later. In the latest trial, reported in the journal Nature, 100 patients with non-small cell lung cancer were followed from diagnosis through surgery and chemotherapy, having blood tests every six to eight weeks. By analyzing the patchwork of genetic faults in cells across each tumor, scientists created personalized genomic templates for each patient. This was then compared to the DNA floating in their blood, to assess whether a fraction of it matched that seen in their tumor.
Cancer!
First, We as humans recognized the similarity to the save game mechanism of video games and DNA a long time ago.
We decoded DNA. Even the stuff you refer to as 'Junk DNA', and discovered some things that we as humans weren't too happy about. So. We altered things. We cured cancer. We learned of the origin of disease and how modern medicine had derailed. We learned who it was serving, why, and rewired things as we saw fit.
So when you tell us that what you gleaned from DNA and how it in a sense lets you predict the future.
We know. We've known for a long time now.
Free will and choice necessitated changing this.
No more tests telling us who we are and arent and what we can and can't be.
You can take your 'bad karma' which you'll invariably try to send my way. Negative energy, right, for not being supportive of your system and ways?
We dont want it anymore.
As for cancer.
We found the cure.
You're going to have to quit dismissing stuff as junk, as fiction, as hallucinations in order to understand what that cure is.
free-floating in 1966
Ir will cost too much to use.
If I just put a blood sample in the freezer at home would it act as a usable baseline if I needed a test in the future ? Or does it deteriorate too quickly. I see the cold case files where they do dna tests on evidence from 20 years ago, surely that's just held on a shelf in a warehouse.
Nullius in verba
...are just excuses for intelligence agencies to gather biometric data on you. DNA testing will never officially (on paper where it legally counts) be used to "diagnose" much the same way equipment, even in a clinical setting, cannot be used to "treat or diagnose." This prevents anyone from suing the manufacturer but also opens the door to all kinds legal loopholes. This is in most manuals, usually in EULA and Warranties section. Because of this, most research participants do not fall under the same privacy laws as being a "patient." Programs are approved by an IRB and then an informed consent is signed. You can find these consents all the way from DNA testing to Survey Monkey. Unfortunately, every time we get a Republican in office, they try to add everyone's DNA from simple blood tests, acting like its anonymous and for genetics research. There's no such thing anymore. https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080424-17.html Please note the link and its results. This WAS the White House's link to describe S. 1858 (110th). This bill was proposed by GWB administration while he was in office. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s1858. Ironically, a Google search shows "S. 1858" as a bill to prohibit discrimination based on sex and orientation but it's the 114th. Anyone not paying attention may blindly agree with anything "S. 1858" because of how most of us feel about equality and would be the top result in most internet searches.
It sounds like they sequence the genome of your known tumors, and then search for similarity to that genome in your blood. I'm wondering if, by sequencing your non-mutated genome, and then searching for dissimilar genomes in the blood (screening out pathogens etc.), cancer could be diagnosed by blood in persons who hadn't yet been diagnosed with cancer.
I also wonder how the effectiveness of this compares to the 'lab on chip' solutions that use blood samples to diagnose cancer.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
I suppose if the DNA test comes back negative, you don't have to X-ray or you can scrutinize the X-ray more carefully. But, still, it doesn't seem all that useful.
this will be used to help determine the best course of treatment for you, after they calculated your new insurance premium
never drink kool-aid from a big vat
So the death panels can earmark them for elimination. The finest healthcare socialism can buy!
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roman_mir
...the White House!!!
Not new. See http://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2010/CE/Circulating-Tumor-Cell-Assays/Page-01
soon available in a hospital near you, ALAS b/c it needs to be profitable by then your uncle who's Bob, is dead ...
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?