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I'll confess my ignorance here, but would your saliva cells also show it (assuming it's not a mouth or throat cancer)? And it is is, wouldn't you have noticed s
by AlbertCory 3y ago
I'll confess my ignorance here, but would your saliva cells also show it (assuming it's not a mouth or throat cancer)? And it is is, wouldn't you have noticed something before your regular "checkup" from 23andme?
- 331c8c71 3y agoGood question. I think this should answer your questions https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12920-020-0664-7 https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009603/ Speaking of detecting cancer indirectly, it is actually the fact that sometimes you can detect tumors (early) because their DNA or RNA products reach the blood or other bodily fluids (cfDNA/cfRNA for "circulating free"). It is a big and a recent thing - for many cancer types e.g. lung there was basically no easy way to test. Biopsies are very invasive obviously....
- AlbertCory 3y ago23andme wasn't offering blood testing every year, though, right? Nor claiming to detect new mutations in subsequent saliva tests, AFAIK.