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Experimental Spit Test Could Identify Men Most At Risk of Prostate Cancer (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: A test developed by scientists in the U.K. and U.S. might someday be able to pinpoint the men most likely to get prostate cancer. A new study published Monday in Nature Genetics suggests the test can detect the one percent of men who are genetically most vulnerable to developing prostate cancer, a leading cause of cancer deaths among American men. The international research team used a new DNA analysis technique to peer into the genes of more than 70,000 people enrolled in previous studies. Some 45,000 of the subjects had already developed prostate cancer, while 25,000 hadn't. So the researchers compared the two groups, singling out any inherited genetic variations that might have contributed to their cancer risk. According to the authors, they managed to find 63 new variants never before associated with prostate cancer.
These results were then integrated with nearly a hundred genetic variants linked to prostate cancer previously found among 60,000 people to create a total genetic risk score. And finally, the researchers devised a test that uses a person's saliva to detect these more than 150 variants. In the U.S., people over the age of 50 are generally screened for prostate cancer via the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. Those with a certain high level of PSA should be screened annually, while everyone else is advised to be screened every two years. But the saliva test could reveal especially high-risk people who need annual screening regardless of their PSA level, while ruling out low-risk people who don't need annual screening based on their genetic risk and PSA scores. Those people would only need screenings every two, five, and maybe even 10 years.
These results were then integrated with nearly a hundred genetic variants linked to prostate cancer previously found among 60,000 people to create a total genetic risk score. And finally, the researchers devised a test that uses a person's saliva to detect these more than 150 variants. In the U.S., people over the age of 50 are generally screened for prostate cancer via the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. Those with a certain high level of PSA should be screened annually, while everyone else is advised to be screened every two years. But the saliva test could reveal especially high-risk people who need annual screening regardless of their PSA level, while ruling out low-risk people who don't need annual screening based on their genetic risk and PSA scores. Those people would only need screenings every two, five, and maybe even 10 years.
Or, someone could just poke a finger up your butt. Either way works.
More men die of that than anal cancer, it's just easier to test for and doctors don't look for it. oh it's been 3 min in a dfferent threat well clearly am abusing AC and not giving slashdot enough resellable information
It distracts from breast cancer.
A simple spit test can determine your HLA markers and all sorts of stuff. The fact that you can also test for genetic vulnerabilities is pretty mundane. The consumer genetic testing services already do a great deal of this including much more obscure stuff.
This isn't news. This is the dull side of a butter knife.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
This test is only for men who get prostate cancer? What about all those poor women who get prostate cancer? This is what is wrong with America.
I thought the consensus was that screening for prostate cancer was not recommended for ANYONE because detection and treatment rarely leads to overall better outcomes.
Maybe once they get the weaponized-immune-system thing down it will be a different story.
Agreed, you're not a fucking doctor and have no business giving any kind of medical advice.
The problem often is not the PSA screening per se, it's the prostate snatcher urologist eager to sell his "services" - old fashioned biopsies and surgery. There are many flavors of PSA related tests that can less invasively help enumerate your prostate cancer odds.
We are at the threshold of diagnostic technologies that are less invasive, and early treatments that are not well recieved by all urologists.
and ne'er worry about said appendage already.
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Before the sex change:
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You get it from lying down.
Here... Spit on my finger before I insert it.
You shouldn't be dissing I.T. closet cleaners. They often volunteer to do jobs that everyone else spent years avoiding. For example, creimer cleared out a 600-sqft storage closet that no one had seen the floor in eight years. He did that in between tickets over a six week period. He also finished deploying 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors ahead of schedule, ending his 12-month contract after nine months.
Experimental spit test identifies men that just gave me a blow job.
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You're going to get it. So what good is a test if it can't tell you if you're going to get it early on?
There's one problem with the PSA test. It doesn't actually lengthen anyones life. It seems to detect a lot of very slow growing cancers. So slow growing that by the time the prostate cancer kills you, you'd be far more likely to do of something else.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/893458
'people over the age of 50 are generally screened for prostate cancer'
Are we so PC that we can't specify the gender that actually has prostate glands, but have to be inclusive and all, and avoid excluding those genders that do not?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
OP says " one percent of men ..., a leading cause of cancer deaths"
So the 1% is a "leading" cause?! What about the 99%?
That specific cancer has mostly 2 variants, the one that kills you quickly, no matter how many dangerous operations you do and one that won't be a problem, since it grows so slowly that you can ignore it, because you'll be dead from old age before it can possibly kill you.
But nonetheless, the medical industry wants to radiate, operate and make you piss your pants the rest of your life.
Clearly this joke went right over everyone's head.
i.e. She's back in the news raising capital for a new 'venture'. Get it?
Fucking aspergers syndrome must sap the humor right out of folks hereabouts, huh. Lol.
He also finished deploying 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors ahead of schedule, ending his 12-month contract after nine months.
You delusional piece of lard!
I had to redeploy those 750 PCs by myself after paying you to do it. That's why I let you go early so you wouldn't be in the way!
I redeployed everything in 3 months and met the deadline but the money we gave you is a total lost.
You also threw away a bunch of valuable spare parts in your genius closet cleaning and we had to buy new ones, further adding to the bill. You are a disaster.
Fuck you!
You also threw away a bunch of valuable spare parts in your genius closet cleaning and we had to buy new ones, further adding to the bill. You are a disaster.
CROFLOL! He most probably ate those spare parts and farted as he was going...
we should be ditching the creimers...
There you are spamming amazon and youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!
You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.
Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.
How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????
The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!
You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!
When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!
Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!
Bonus:
Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:
The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!
So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!
Signed:
Ethell, The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!