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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vmception on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:44AM (#27629080)
That’s not good enough for cancer because we dont even know how fast or slow it grows. Even if it cancer cells multiplied at the rate of a fetus that would be too fast for an annual physical. Congratulations, death.

Ideally something like a wearable computer or nanomachines in your blood stream automatically report anomalies for individualized treatment.

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by danuker on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:23AM (#27629360)
> Even if cancer cells multiplied at the rate of a fetus

I suspect at least some cancers multiply slower than that, because they work against the rest of the cells.

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by dryrun on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:26AM (#27629371)
Given the amount of "I don't want bill gates injecting me a tracker!", I have some idea of how a conversation with the same people about nano machines in their body would go.

I would also bet on the time-frame between this and the availability of your data on the servers of your health insurance.

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vmception on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:05PM (#27635585)
Not my problem, human cancers stay in there own bodies and are not communicable

To our knowledge

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by jacquesm on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:44PM (#27636032)
Not normally, no. But there are some puzzling exceptions:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-cancers-that-are...

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vmception on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:49PM (#27636078)
These are all in animals and I specified human cancers for that specific reason, thanks for the article though, I only knew about the Tasmanian Devil one
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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by jacquesm on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:57PM (#27636179)
Yes, correct. But there are also some viruses that cause cancer that can spread from human to human (HPV for instance, the cause of cervical cancer), and the case of that doctor is some proof that at least in theory cancer can spread by blood or tissue contact.
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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vmception on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:10PM (#27637364)
Yeah got vaxxed against that, fingers crossed
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