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by SemanticStrengh 1486 days ago
> what would you do with that information? Well for starters anyone should check he has the right number of each organ, and at the right place (not ectoplasmic), and that their shape and volume is not pathologic. You should also check your bones joints to check wether you have metallic accumulation or not. It's not just about tumors. In any cases, there are generally many possibles diagnosises that do not involve a biopsy, such as blood/urine/lymph/fecal biomarkers, and DNA testing. In some cases you might even consider biofluorescence. Secondly, if a thing look like a tumor, I would study the risk and if very low I would proceed for a biopsy (risk seems OK) or otherwise use anticarcinogenic drugs. I would not proceed to a risky surgery unless necessary though, especially in an era where potent anticarcinogenic exists such as PNC-27

BTW it's very cool that this is a thing> https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/getting_data.html