Cancer Blood Test – Overview

By Cinta Esty

Cancer blood test is sometimes made anxiety without learn of cancer blood test and function. Many people may panic when blood test results showed the cancer had been done.

We need to know how the blood test used in cancer diagnosis, cancer blood test in medicine is not absolutely determine a diagnosis of cancer patients, cancer blood test a possible indicator of cancer diagnosis is in the process still required a variety tests such as urine tests, cancer biopsy.

In a series of laboratory cancer blood test, urine test, fluid or tissue derived from cancer biopsies and in carefully cultivated. From cancer tests result that may be used as an indicator that premises of cancer patients in cancer cells, proteins and other substances produced by cancer.

Test results from a series of cancers including cancer blood test your doctor to find out the normal organ function or not normal, so if organ function is not normal then the chances of cancer patients are very likely.

Laboratory studies include blood samples and urine tests done to facilitate the process of cancer diagnosis among others.:

• Complete blood count
• Urine cytology
• Testing of blood protein
• Tumor marker test

Some tumor markers in cancer diagnosis process many controversial considering the best way in the use of tumor markers has not been determined.

As some tumor markers such as PSA test use in prostate cancer test, CA 125 or 125 is used antigen cancer test ovarian cancer, AFP (alpha-fetoprotein) as a marker of liver cancer, HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin in germ cell tumors, including testicular cancer and ovarian cancer and medullary thyroid cancer are used as a marker calcitonin.

Cancer Test for Diagnosis

By Cinta Esty

Cancer test is required by a doctor as a primary cancer diagnosis, cancer test results in addition to use as a basis for diagnosis but action is also needed to make treatment and cancer patients care.

In the medical world have some kind standards test for patient, among other
1. Imaging test
2. Surgery test
3. Blood test

1. Imaging test

a. Diagnostic mammography

On cancer test this method of shooting on the organs that have a suspected cancer,   patients normally used for women who found symptoms of breast cancer.

b. Ultrasound graph (USG)

Using technology, sound waves frequency high function to view images of organs in the patient’s body, this technology can differentiate a solid mass, usually used for the examination of organs in the patient’s body with suspected breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
c. magnetic resonance imaging MRI

Using magnetic technology to get details of the body image, most cancer doctor’s use this test as a cancer screening test in combination with mammography.

2. Surgery test / Biopsy

Sampling cell network on a small scale or large physician and pathologist to use sample cells for the organ network analyzed through laboratory tests, cancer tests with this method are accurate in determining type and stage of cancer, usually used on patients suspected of breast cancer and skin cancer.

3. Blood Test

Cancer test using the method of blood test is required for deep condition with cancer see the following test variables

• Hemoglobin level (HB)
  See  amount of oxygen content in red blood cells

• Hematocrit level
  See percentage number of red blood cells in the body.

• Number of white blood
  to see number of white blood cell in the body, the more white blood percentage the strong presumption is a disease or infection in patient.

• Number of thrombosit
  basically works thrombosis help thrombosis.

• Differential

Percentage comparison between white blood cell and red blood cells

Than the blood test is also conducted to see

Amount of alkaline phosphates

The amount of enzyme in high levels can be an indication Metastasis or spread of cancer to heart, liver, bile and bone channel.

SGOT & SGPT

Test for evaluation of liver function, as the high number of one of this test, indicating, that there is interference or damage to the liver function, can also be a sign of the spread of cancer to the liver.

Tumor Marker TEST parameter is the size of test results from the findings of a type of chemical substances in the blood, urine or other body of the network. high or low number of tumor Marker from the normal value of the scale indicated no abnormal processes in the body, can be caused by cancer or not.

Cancer test that is often used in the determination of medical diagnostics, among others,

• Photo Thorax as there is no basis to see the spread of cancer in the lungs

• Scan bones

Cancer test method is conducted to see cancer spread in bones, bones before image is done injection Radioactive tracer in the vessel with vena interval 3-4 hours later will gather in the bones and patients are encouraged to drink as much as possible,  test results will be shown by the image, the bones when there is visible difference from the color black more normal bone.

• Computed Tomography (CT or CAT) Scan

Cancer tests this method works see detail tumor position, before the patient is also injected as a tracer radioactive bone scan that is on vessel volume vena but more so with the same infuse, CT-scan to get the shape of 3-dimensional image, the visible scan is an image snippet which hinders the body in the CT-scan.

• Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan

Work to see spread of cancer, before PET-scan patients previously injected fluid glucose containing radioactive material, cancer cells will absorb liquid glucose faster than normal cells. results visible color image contrast on PET-scan, cancer test this method as the usual complement of data from cancer test method results CT-Scan, MRI and physical examination.

That is the type of cancer test that is often done by doctors, at this time you will think how much money should be spent, if you or your relatives suffer symptoms of cancer better check your doctor as soon as possible, to alleviate the burden of cost better use health insurance.

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