when you are testing a patients samples have you every found out they have a serious disease?

Question: when you are testing a patients samples have you every found out they have a serious disease?
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Asked by 10jwhite to Samantha on 4 Jul 2012.
- Samantha Weaver answered on 4 Jul 2012:
  
  Yes this happens a lot since that is what a lot of tests are done for. We diagnose conditions/diseases such as cystic fibrosis, immunodeficiencies, porphyria, heart attacks, diabetes, multiple myeloma (a cancer that starts in plasma cells in bone marrow) and we also test all newborn babies in Wales for 4 serious conditions:
  Phenylketonuria (PKU)
  Congenital hypothyroidism (CHT)
  Cystic fibrosis (CF)
  Medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD)
  
  We also monitor patients with HIV/AIDS and various cancers to see if they are getting better or worse.

Jonathan commented on 4 Jul 2012:

All the time. That’s one of the reasons we’re here.

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Sam commented on 4 Jul 2012:

Many of the samples I look at show that the patient has cancer – that’s about as serious as you can get.

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Question: when you are testing a patients samples have you every found out they have a serious disease?