Yes but, is it profitable?
Someone has to ask the real world questions
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis
Submitted 21 hours ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/nih-research-cancers-in-bloodstream-early-detection/
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Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Gsus4@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
If everyone gets tested yearly until they die, this could cost as much as most cancer treatments and suffering combined and it would probably still be better for everyone if nobody has to go through that anymore.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
Can someone clarify which blood test was used? I want to get tested every two years.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
go to an oncologist and get screened
source: i did cancer
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I thought cancer comes a goes all the time, wouldn’t that give a lot of people false positives and a start to the cascade of healthcare?
catloaf@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
Not really, no. It’s only really cancer once the cells multiply uncontrollably. Yes, sometimes cells don’t properly perform apoptosis, but there are other mechanisms that will target and kill those precancerous cells. Only once those other mechanisms fail does it become true cancer.
Besides, even if this test did come back positive, they’d still have to identify a tumor and monitor. If you have a teeny-tiny benign tumor that isn’t hurting anything, the best course of action is to just leave it alone and monitor. Any surgical procedure risks spillage, which is basically human-induced metastasis.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
That makes sense if I’m understanding you correctly. You might have cancerous cells, but it’s not actually cancer.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
The article says they’re detecting DNA shedding of genetic mutations. I think one example of this could be cancer caused by HPV should shed DNA that they could identify.
It’s probably different but that’s what I’m thinking from that line
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Look up extra-cellular vesicles. This is where the magic is.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
What? This BETTER not be US funded Research! I DONT want MY Tax Dollars going to THIS when there’s SAD BILLIONAIRES still out there!
-LITERALLY everyone who Voted for Trump!
jsomae@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Trump also got the covid vaccine invented, produced, and distributed. It was probably the greatest thing he ever did but now he doesn’t even want to be associated with it. Alas.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Yes and no, warp speed only needed to exist in the form it did because Trump had fired the existing pandemic response team.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Why should the world benefit from our taxpayer funded research? I want my taxes spent on training Americans so as to let the world watch (for free) fast running and swimming.
Am still waiting for a skipping event in the Olympics.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
The world isn’t benefitting from your research, you benefit from the world’s research based off your own research, on and on it goes and we all get smarter and know more and strive towards bettering our condition, curing our ills and minimizing suffering and maximizing happiness for all.
At least in my opinion it’s why scientific research while a truly neutral morally activity and generally done as an end unto itself - from a broadly humanist standpoint is a ga worth pursuing, even when the immediate benefits aren’t seen by the shortsighted.