Coming friday to a pharmacy near you:

[desrt]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34276015/vp/37095335#37095335

Do you want to know?

[desrt]

"Walgreens has announced that it's holding off on its plans to carry a personal genetic test kit it was to start selling Friday after learning that federal Food and Drug Administration was "unable to identify" that the kit had been approved by the agency."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37119557/ns/health-health_care/

[Trinity4]

In the end the insurance company paid out over a million dollars for her cancer treatment.
Paying for a test would have been a lot cheaper, don't you think?

Trinity

[Rockerforlife]

Ok,you do have a point.they are actually using geneitic testing in my bocecep trail to see if they play a part in who does better with TX and some dont...still tho,ya gotta eat healthy.Still seems lie we should not have to pay for this testing thod,dont we already pay enuf?

[nygirl7]

Ah ya beat me to it.

[Trinity4]

I have a friend who had colo-rectal cancer.  She was diagnosed at age 46, and by then it was stage 3c, very far advanced.  She later learned that she was the fourth generation of her family to have this disease.  She had a genetic predisposition, and for that reason she should have begun screening colonoscopy sometime in my late 20s.  If she had done so, her cancer could have been found and removed as a precancerous polyp, before it had years to grow through the colon wall and invade other organs. She could have been spared a complete horror of a treatment.  She had to undergo extremely high doses of radiation, three rounds of very harsh chemotherapy and two surgeries.  

Genetic screening would have put her on notice about this potential decades before she would have been considered a candidate for routine colonoscopy.  With her genes, she would not have survived to age 50 to have her baseline scope exam.  If she had this knowledge early, she would have been screened early and saved not only the physical hell of cancer but also the psychological, personal, career and financial horrors that come with that disease.

Trinity

[Rockerforlife]

There is proof now the scans used to detect breast cancer causes cancer.I still think this genetic disease detection is a waste of money,my opinion.My question is,what will aperson do after he gets the genetic test thats says hes prone to cancer?...

[nygirl7]

BRCA1 and BRCA2: Cancer Risk and Genetic Testi - National Cancer ...How do BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations affect a person's risk of cancer? .....

www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/factsheet/Risk/BRCA

[nygirl7]

So what do you do if the genetic tests show you are prone to breast cancer or any other type of disease,how you gonna stop it?..."

Do you know how many women these days are getting mastectomies prophalatically? YOUNG healthy women who know that if they too get the strains that thier mothers carried they could likely die the same death?

Eating organic broccoli will not stop these genetically passed down diseases.  It would be nice but alphalpha sprouts did not help you from having to do chemo to beat HepC - and a PI on top of the interferon and ribavirin.........I don't see what it would do for cancers.  There is a difference between eating healthy and doing things to save your life.

[Rockerforlife]

So what do you do if the genetic tests show you are prone to breast cancer or any other type of disease,how you gonna stop it?...ya cant.unless its progressed and you have to go on some sort of TX..may it be chemo or radiation to halt it,by then it usually too late...so what do ya do?...you change your diet to a healthy one...common sense...so why not eat right in the first place to prevent disease?..again.disease is is caused by the chemicals we ingest...we just dont get sick for no reason

[nygirl7]

Well if you were a woman for example you might want to know if you have that gene that causes breast cancer........or if you are a man if you are predisposed to prostrate cancer - then at least you can make sure you do more followup than the average bear.  While many things can indeed be attributed to pollution and stuff people are also genetically linked to many diseases and it would be foolish not to believe that to be true.

[Trinity4]

Once again Rocker, spoken like a true prodigy.

[Rockerforlife]

This is  SCAM...disease is caused by all the chemicials in out=r air water and foods,ya dont ned no stinking gentic test to tell you your going to be sick...what a joke

[nygirl7]

I'm afraid to find out anything else right now I have to admit hepc was enough for me to deal with - I want a few years off.....enough is enough!

[desrt]

I guess I'm just too curious for my own good. Besides, I have no reason to believe all this info hasn't already been sequenced by 'Big Brother'. Just means I'll have access to it too. Fortunately, I live a good long way from any big chain pharmacy, so I've got a couple weeks 'cooling off' time to decide if I actually want to do this.

[Trinity4]

Maybe the younger ones might want to know but I'm too old and don't care.  Besides, I would not send my genetic code thought the mail.  Is that company bound by laws which do not let them share that information with anyone else?  Could it possible play a role in insurances companies denying coverage?   Too many unknowns and as I said don't care.

Trinity