Linda in the mountains
A long time ago.
Is one billion dollars a lot of money? Well, from my perspective – certainly. I would bet that nearly all of you faithful
readers would concur. However, there are
people who have dozens – even hundreds – of billions of dollars. With all this wealth sloshing around, it
seems to me that we ought to be able to afford to test every female baby for
BRCA mutations, at birth.
There are about two million baby girls born each year. Costs of a genetic screen for cancer-related mutations
can range up to five thousand dollars, but simply testing BRCA can be performed
for as little as one hundred dollars.
Say $500 a crack to be on the safe side, times two million tests yields
a paltry one billion dollars!
For comparison, the cost of our latest aircraft carrier is
about 14 billion, and the annual budget of the NCI is around five billion.
Good God! Our
priorities are totally screwed! Bitch to
your doctors and your Congress-persons. Forward
this blog to the Trumpster. And, you
females – get yourselves tested.
All oncologists should read this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.onclive.com/onclive-tv/the-importance-of-genetic-testing-following-a-diagnosis-of-ovarian-cancer
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