Posted on 06/03/2023 1:10:24 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Cancer blood-test maker Grail said about 400 customers were mistakenly notified that its test detected a cancer signal in them, which the company attributed to a partner’s software glitch.
Grail said its laboratory test didn’t turn up the incorrect results, but rather the letters sent out to the customers were wrong. Because of the software problem, more than half of the customers were told they may have cancer even before they had taken the test, Grail said.
Grail, a Menlo Park, Calif., unit of gene-sequencing company Illumina, is the leading developer of multi-cancer early-detection blood tests, an emerging market that analysts think could eventually generate $50 billion in annual sales.
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Grail is at the center of a battle between Illumina and antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe. Regulators are trying to force Illumina to unwind its 2021 acquisition of Grail for more than $7 billion, saying it will hurt competition in the emerging market for liquid biopsies.
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Grail has a partnership with a telemedicine provider, PWNHealth. In May, PWNHealth sent an inaccurate form letter to 400 people who had recently ordered the Galleri test.
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(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Fail.
PWNHealth is pwned following the major flub.
Ping to Galleri Grail genome project for cancer detection. The test may be accurate, but the sender of life-altering test results is not accurate.
“Oopsie!”
“More Than 400 Blood-Test Customers Mistakenly Told They May Have Cancer”
I thought they sent her to jail a couple of weeks ago.
Software is supposed to be validated. That’s the company’s responsibility. Anyone is medical device or diagnostics knows this even if they don’t work in regulatory compliance.
Wager the farm that the erroneous data will get saved in some insurance company data files, causing problems for obtaining health and life insurance in the years ahead.
Just like the covid tests... Positive, positive, positive.
#QC
I’m not mistaken. If a covid test was negative, docs would call positive to get the $$. Even my son in law tested negative and the doc said they’re always wrong, your positive and my son in law walked out saying FU and your test.
I’ve never had the test and never will. I don’t know anyone who actually had covid, got sick from or died from covid.
You’ve seen zillions of negative covid test... Good for you. Guess you’re special.
Covid was a massive scam on the American people not to mention the world. At best it was a bad cold. Everything else was pure bullshit.
Then there is getting funeral expenses paid by tax dollars if you can link the death to Covid. BIG money.
1. Way off topic for this thread.
2. Using one single story told by your son to extrapolate across the universe of medicine. An anecdote as defined does not make a pattern. Furthermore, a doctor did not get paid more for a Covid diagnosis. You are blinded by ignorance.
Just wait until everyone is forced to take fake TB tests this is the Chicken Little science of fake testing.
I disagree. Sounds like you've never received a letter strongly suggesting you have cancer. In the real world, a physician normally advises the patient of such findings.
“May” is a weasel word. The climate alarmists love it.
So, you see, we're not another Theranos.
Don’t blame me. Blame that company behind the tree.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/ilmn/institutional-holdings
Check out numbers 2,3, and 4.
The thread was cancer and testing. The link was “testing” and testing being wrong the same with covid..testing was wrong.
The story of my son in law was an example, not a sample so there was no extrapolation. If you remember, everything was covid, the flu, colds etc all disappeared for two years which was pure BS just like the test used.
FACT: Under the “Relief Act” there was a 20% add on for covid positive medicare patients... Follow the money, more positive patients more money.
And you saw a zillion negative tests in three years... Your words not mine. So did you see a gazillion positive?
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