alt Hacker NewsQuite interesting to me and first time I am hearing about this.
Question for you, what do you do when it shows you may have cancer? Do you speak to your physician? Surely, this will change your life even if it doesn't need treatment for next 6 years? Does the treatment change? Can the treatment be done based on those results?
So many questions.
I'm hoping we find more stuff for Alzheimer's. My aunt and now mother have it. I fear that I am next and I am too scared of doing the DNA test to check for genes.
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You immediately bring the results to your doctor ASAP. They'll recommend follow-up testing since they want verification of third-party results and, well, are doctors and will know better about what to test for. If you do indeed have cancer, they will refer you to an oncologist who sub-specializes in that type of cancer.
I decided to start doing them because a friend was diagnosed with a late stage cancer that had very few symptoms and lost his life only months after diagnosis. I guess if I got a positive, my hope would be that my doctor would refer me to a specialist and I'd get a head start and the chance to fight it that my friend never got.
The test is not foolproof and the detection rate for some early stage cancers is quite low. And of course early detection is no promise of a cure. Regardless $800 a year isn't an unreasonable cost for me given I get annual health screenings anyway. My insurance doesn't cover that test but you can use your HSA to pay for it if needed.