Wonderful news!
how long before it gets approval?
This will be yuge!
We hear about so many cancer “breakthroughs” and then nothing good ever happens.
There are too many corporations who support the status quo of cancer treatment.
Developed by UofC, but we're hearing about it from a Brit paper.
Wish they had this 5 years ago. My brother might not be laying in the hospital dying an inch at a time.
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Amazing. What a difference this would make.
Kaiser and some of the UC hospitals have been using some type of DNA testing of breast cancer patients and a few other cancers.
There has been confusion as to what DNA is looked at. Like they wanted confusion as re patient DNA or cancer DNA which is relatively new.
Recently, patients have been told that the DNA is the cancer DNA. The test enables the doctors to streamline the treatment of the cancer patients re what to do after surgery.
THis is why reforming the “health insurance” system is so complicated.
OK, so lets say this test works, and is approved. It’s great, right? We can catch cancer early, and have a better chance of beating it in cases where the cancer is beatable.
Now — what if your insurance company requires you to have this test as a condition of issuing a policy? In other words, you take the test, they check the results, if you have cancer, they refuse to cover you. Or they charge a higher premium.
Remember, “pre-existing conditions” are only those things that you KNOW about and therefore can divulge when applying for insurance. But as more tests can diagnose future problems, a smart insurance company would use these tests, just like they use questions about lifestyle choices (when they are allowed to, like you can ask someone if they are a smoker, but not if they engage in risky sex practices).
They can ask for family history, so now they’ll ask for the results of tests like this one.
We can stop them from asking — by supporting regulations that make it harder for them to accurately guess how much a particular person will cost. This is kind of like how “employer insurance” works, in most cases the insurance company waives the right to consider pre-existing conditions, in exchange for the company taking some or most of the risk, and the company figures it’s a small price for good loyal employees.
You get rid of employer insurance, what incentive is there for broad pools of differing risks?