Cancer and bloodwork

[Deity]

If there is cancer in the body what usualy shows as elevated in bloodwork? Thanks.

 

[dogsoldier]

There are definitely tumor markers that can show up in blood work. The PSA test is one example. There are others. I suggest you get with a real doctor and ask that question. Or you could Google the question.

 

[dave 236]

Usually antibodies to a particular foriegn antigen. This is only a red flag that something is wrong an actual diagnosis would come after follow up testing is done due to the abnormal bloodwork.

 

[MikesHeath]

If there is cancer in the body what usualy shows as elevated in bloodwork? Thanks.

You can not see anything from naked eye. But you really need to see it through micro scopes.

 

[DetMuscle]

^ LMAO! cant be srs

 

[bandaidwoman]

many leukemias can be discerned from blood work, usually the white count is too low or high and then you fractionate it, or do a bone marrow biopsy when the blood count is low on all counts ( white, platelets, hematocrit) and you find myelodysplasia. CEA is a useful colon cancer to monitor tumor load but can't really be used to screen for colon cancer in it's earlier, curable stage when the CEA is not positive. Ditto for the CA-125, monitors tumor load but lousy for screening. PSA is unusually sensitive but not specific so many false positives. IF the alkaline phosphatase levels ( bone fraction) go up it can mean bony process or metastasis to bones, ( which is why it is part of routine blood work in anyone who has had a solid organ cancer that later likes to go to the bones like melanoma and breast cancer). The list goes on but they are ordered based on high pretest probability or clinical suspician since so many of these tests can be falsely positive in a non- cancer setting.