Experts warn younger people not to dismiss symptoms such as rectal bleeding as diagnoses rise for those under 50
  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Genetic testing was required after the first colonoscopy and they checked, I dunno, 180? 200? known gene markers for cancer?

    I was clean on all of them, but they turned up one abnormality that is flagged as “unknown” for cancer risk:

    "FLCN Variant, Unknown Significance: p.G66E

    Variant of Unknown Significance Detected"

    I can’t remember what all that means, but it’s a crazy small variant. One section of one gene, they found a “E” where they expected a “G”.

    “Wait, ‘E’? I saw GATTACA - ‘E’ isn’t DNA!”

    Correct!