Comment by Tade0

Comment by Tade0 2 days ago

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No, just a standard test, so the typical parameters + glucose + cholesterol. On top of that liver function tests.

I'm aware that tumor markers have a significant false positive rate, so I wouldn't try that unless I had reason to.

A while ago I had a conversation with a person whose 3rd stage bowel cancer was detected because due to an unrelated reason they had a standard blood test done and it was wildly off in hemoglobin levels, so the doctors started investigating.

Eventually the surgeon cut out a significant part of their intestine, but the person lived, so they count that as a win.