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Planning to manage one's own health is probably best. I would love to be a customer of a competent company that managed body scans and the process of looking f
by avifreedman 13y ago
Planning to manage one's own health is probably best.
I would love to be a customer of a competent company that managed body scans and the process of looking for deltas using humans assisted by software every N years.
Why?
Common medical wisdom now is that doing proactive body scans (usually just the trunk), even just MRI (so no radiation) is bad because it drives the expense and uncertainty of investigating every bump and shadow. And many of the tests will come back inconclusive. I understand that argument but it seems the way to deal with that is to focus not as much on scan #1 but scan deltas.
My anecodtal (IANAD) evidence is that in more than 5 cases of cancer in friends and families, a cancer diagnosis was delayed for many months from onset of symptoms and a few Oncologists have told me that they agree that for most of those cancers, that latency could have been improved if a baseline scan had been available of the organs/bones/nodes in question.
Not every patient would be a good candidate for such a service but the same is true for 23andme.