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by throwaway02sfv 1022 days ago
I can confirm these findings. My father, aged 63, passed away just 3 days ago because of blood cancer. He was totally fit and fine until 8 months ago when we first noticed his abnormal blood counts.

He did regular screening, nothing came up in it. When suddenly in one blood report, his counts were low that's when we did some extensive testing. Even with extensive testing, the diagnosis kept changing. From Myelofibrosis to MDS to AML to AEL.

Whole aspects around testing and related studies are very confusing. Tests are not at all accurate and testing is very expensive.

It seems like a scam when it comes to testing industry and pharma industry for such disorders. Bottomline is nothing helped in my father's case and we lost him after spending tons of money.

The fact that medical system remains such an inefficient system till date indicates to me that world leaders doesn't want to solve for health problems. It's an industry for them with lots of money. Everyone seems to be motivated to keep population seek and be subscribed to their drugs.

Sorry for the rant.