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Re: What type of cancer can be detected from a swab?!
Posted by MikeC/TX of TX on 1/30/19 5:31pm Msg #602669
You can't detect it from a mouth swab - what they're looking for is genetic markers that would indicate a potential risk. I would guess that if the risk was high, that would lead to additional testing or screening. Maybe that's part of the scam - convince someone to get more expensive screening because their DNA shows they are genetically liable to have whatever is being tested.

This whole thing raises a lot of red flags. The universe of customers all seem to be elderly, and no one knows who ordered the test or why. It just smells like a scam. To me, this is right up there with the debt consolidation stuff - run, don't walk in the opposite direction.

As for the Ancestry-type DNA testing, at least one company (23 and Me) has been accused of selling its DNA testing results either without notifying customers or burying the fact that they intended to do so deep within one of those Terms of Service documents no one ever reads.

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 genetic test/ oral swab assignment - a head's up - Roadie_MD on 1/29/19 9:30am
 TYVM, Dawn, for sharing your 1st-hand exp. Great heads up!__ n/m -  Christine/OK on 1/29/19 9:35am
 Thanks for the heads up. I don't understand that the ss -  MW/VA on 1/29/19 9:42am
 also-- - Roadie_MD on 1/29/19 9:49am
 They Already Know . . . -  PegiT_MN on 1/29/19 11:50am
 Re: Thanks for the heads up. I don - Lee/AR on 1/29/19 9:52am
 Re: Thanks for the heads up. I don - Sue on 1/31/19 1:33pm
 Re: genetic test/ oral swab assignment - a head -  Cheryl Elliott on 1/29/19 11:01am
 I Was Going To Try One Of These . . . -  PegiT_MN on 1/29/19 11:28am
 Re: genetic test DANGER - Signerbill on 1/29/19 11:16am
 Who is the stellar co. that schedules these? n/m - docs1954CA on 1/29/19 12:02pm
 Re: Who is the stellar co. that schedules these? -  Cheryl Elliott on 1/29/19 12:53pm
 Express Notary sent out text blast for DNA kit yesterday. n/m - jnew on 1/29/19 9:39pm
 Re: genetic test DANGER - Luckydog on 1/29/19 12:57pm
 What type of cancer can be detected from a swab?! -  JanetK_CA on 1/29/19 2:17pm
 genetic screening, as stated in OP n/m - Roadie_MD on 1/29/19 3:44pm
 Tks. Still don't get why this would help for elderly person. n/m -  JanetK_CA on 1/29/19 4:40pm
 Re: What type of cancer can be detected from a swab?! - Luckydog on 1/29/19 6:13pm
 Re: What type of cancer can be detected from a swab?! - MikeC/TX on 1/30/19 5:31pm
 TYVM, LD, for sharing your 1st-hand exp. Great heads up!__ n/m - grapebed on 1/29/19 3:29pm
 Re: genetic test DANGER CANCER - Signerbill on 1/31/19 1:52pm
 Re: genetic test/ oral swab assignment - a head - Mark/NJ on 1/30/19 3:00pm
 It is the elderly that are so often the target of scams. ;-( n/m -  MW/VA on 1/30/19 3:17pm
 Re: genetic test/ oral swab assignment - a head - Linda Juenger on 1/30/19 3:39pm
 Why are they asking notaries to do this? Do they assume -  MW/VA on 1/30/19 6:12pm
 Marilyn, years ago I put in a bid to perform something like - Michelle/AL on 1/30/19 6:46pm
 Re: Why are they asking notaries to do this? Do they assume - Luckydog on 1/30/19 6:59pm
 Re: Why are they asking notaries to do this? Do they assume - LisaKT/CA on 1/30/19 7:22pm
 Re: Why are they asking notaries to do this? Do they assume -  VT_Syrup on 1/30/19 8:26pm
 Re: Why are they asking notaries to do this? Do they assume - LisaKT/CA on 1/30/19 9:02pm
 Why are notaries hired, period...for anything? - LisaKT/CA on 1/30/19 7:17pm
 Re: genetic test/ oral swab assignment - LisaKT/CA on 1/30/19 7:10pm
 Re: genetic test/ oral swab assignment - Luckydog on 1/31/19 10:13am
 Re: genetic test/ oral swab assignment - LisaKT/CA on 1/31/19 12:03pm
 New title "SS" - BobbiCT on 1/31/19 12:20pm
 Re: New title "SS" -  JanetK_CA on 1/31/19 3:19pm
 Re: genetic test/ oral swab assignment - a head - Sue on 1/31/19 1:32pm
 Re: genetic test... DANGER.... CANCER!! - Signerbill on 1/31/19 1:54pm



 
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