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.

Private MD Lab Services offers the following tests to aid in the detection of cancer:

Acid Phosphatase, Total and Prostatic

Alpha Subunit, Free

Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) With AFP-L3%, Serum

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)