There are probably a lot of things that annoy doctors. Patients diving into symptom-tracking websites like WebMD and convincing themselves they have a dire illness is probably near the top of the list, but a more recent development is also raising their ire: At-home genetic tests that claim to provide insights into risks of diseases like cancer.
Home DNA tests are nothing new, but in recent years the companies that peddle the spit-in-a-vial tests have shifted from innocent pursuits like revealing hints of ancestry to more serious claims, like providing risk analysis for a person’s long-term health. That’s really bad news for doctors who have been flooded with patients demanding care for diseases they don’t even have.
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Doctors are sick and tired of at-home ‘cancer screening’ kits that send people into a panic over nothing originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 18:40:49 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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