Your doctor should get the results of your blood test(s) and discuss them with you. Blood tests show whether the levels of different substances in your blood fall within a normal range. Your doctor should discuss any unusual or abnormal results with you....
Because most Blood test reference ranges (often referred to as 'normal' ranges of Blood test results) are typically defined as the range of values of the median 95% of the healthy population, it is unlikely that a given Blood sample, even from a healthy patient, will show "normal" values...
Blood Test Could Prevent Prostate Cancer Deaths
Blood samples from 503 men with metastaticprostate cancerwho were participating in a new drug trial were analyzed. Patients with five or more CTCs in their blood sample had the poorest outcomes, the study found. They were more than three times as likely to die during the study period than pa...
blood samples, the researchers showed that the method, called a "liquid biopsy," could accurately distinguishprostate cancerfrom normal controls without prior knowledge of the genetic "signature" of the tumors, and with over three times the sensitivity of current prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ...
Prostate Cancer Blood Test May Avert BiopsiesJody A. CharnowEditor
The Stockholm3 blood test, developed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, is equally effective at detecting prostate cancer in different ethnic groups, a new paper published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports. The test produces significantly
Testing for liver function is a frequently requested blood test for abdominal pain amongst other conditions.Components ALANINE TRANSAMINASE (ALT) ALBUMIN ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE (GGT) Normal Range in Health 1-60 U/L 33-48 g/L 30-145 U/L 11-63Fatty liver disease, ...
Study leader professor Johann de Bono said: “At the moment assess in the clinic how men with advanced prostate cancer are responding to their treatment. Measuring the levels of circulating tumour cells in blood samples could be a relatively quick and effective way to test men in the ...
Prostate screening involves a blood test called aprostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. PSA is a hormone made in the prostate gland by both normal and cancer cells. Most PSA is in semen, but small amounts are also found in blood.