Tumor Marker

Did you know, in the blood test for cancer, what did they checked?!

Various blood tests for cancer such as CEA, CA 15-3, Alpha-fetoprotein, etc., which we hear from various blood testing programs, is the directional of Tumor marker (cancer markers). Can you actually find cancer? “

The Tumor Marker that should be known as Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is an antigen in the oncofetal antigen group. It creates by the epithelium of the yolk sac. Liver cells and the digestive tract of the baby in the mother’s womb with the highest level in the blood for about 13 weeks of the fetus. After that, there will be a rapid decrease in volume after birth. Until the level is normal in adults within 2 – 3 weeks after birth. Thus, AFP is high in children in the womb, mother, newborn and pregnant women who are pregnant for 2 months or more. Especially if the baby in the womb has a neural tube defect it can detect AFP in the mother’s blood and in the amniotic fluid, which is 2 to 3.5 times higher than the normal pregnancy level. People can detect AFP at a low level.

Dermaster has a team of specialists specializing in cancer-marker detection. We have equipment and technology, our test has the standard level that made the test results have the slightest mistake.

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)

It is another antigen in the oncofetal antigen group. which is produced from the intestinal cells, liver, and pancreas of the fetus with a gestational age of 2 – 6 months. In a normal person, it can find a slightly higher level of CEA in smoking people and women with gestational age not more than 6 months. Including in patients with inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, and liver, but the level is usually not very high.

CEA often increases abnormally in patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, etc. In particular, people with colon cancer found a very high level in CEA and more often than other types of cancer.

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA)

CA 125

CA 15-3