Cancer Screening Testing
Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood). These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, and do not invade or metastasize. Most cancers form a tumor but some, like leukemia, do not. The branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer is oncology.
Cancer may affect people at all ages, even fetuses, but the risk for most varieties increases with age. Cancer causes about 13% of all human deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, 7.6 million people died from cancer in the world during 2007.
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Lab Services offers the following tests to aid in the detection of cancer:
| Alpha Subunit, Free |
| Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) With AFP-L3%, Serum |
| Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP), Serum, Tumor Marker |
| Anemia Profile, Megaloblastic, Serum |
| Breast Cancer Profile |
| CA-125 (Ovarian Cancer Test) |
| Calcitonin (Thyrocalcitonin), Serum |
| Cancer Antigen (CA) 15-3 |
| Carbohydrate Antigen (CA) 19-9 |
| Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) |
| Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) (Serial Monitor) |
| Chromogranin A |
| Cryoglobulin, Qualitative, Serum With Quantitative Reflex |
| Cyclic AMP (cAMP), Urine |
| Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) |
| Deluxe Female Cancer Profile |
| Deluxe Male Cancer Profile |
| Des-carboxy Prothrombin (DCP) |
| Free Kappa and Lambda Light Chains Plus Ratio, Quantitative, Serum |
| Free Kappa and Lambda Light Chains Plus Ratio, Quantitative, Urine |
| Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer) Risk Profile |
| HER-2/neu, Quantitative, ELISA |
| Lipid-Associated Sialic Acid (LASA) |
| Lung Cancer Panel |
| Proinsulin |
| Prostate Cancer Profile |
| Prostate Infection Panel |
| Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) |
| Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA), Ultrasensitive |
| Prostate-Specific Antigen, Complexed (cPSA) |
| PSA, Total with % Free (% free provided when total PSA is between 4 and 10) |
| Serotonin, Serum |
| Ultimate Female Cancer Profile |
| Ultimate Male Cancer Profile |
| Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, Serum |
