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Re:Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads by kodt on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:30AM (#43036850)
The amount of blood drawn isn't enough to run all of these tests at once. They would need to multiple blood draws for tests that in most cases will end up being unnecessary.
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Re:Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads by plasticsoprano on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:26AM (#43037660)
It's unnecessary until it finds something. My doctor is pretty thorough and I will give 3 vials with my yearly physical bloodwork. I get a pretty comprehensive set of results but my grandfather died of pancreatic cancer and I'd love for this to be included in that testing.
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Re:Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads by mapt on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:39AM (#43037858)
I had a wide panel at one point after a statistically unlikely health event.

It was something like 300ml of blood spread over ~40 vials. They tried to charge me $7500.

It did lead to a diagnosis.

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