Cancer still becomes the illness that makes people afraid because there are no any medicines that can cure and it can cause death. The difficult thing is cancer doesn’t give the specific symptoms in the beginning stadium and it makes people late to recognize. Maybe you ever heard the laboratory check that can Detect Cancer earlier through blood. This checking is usually called tumor marker. What are types of cancer that can be detected? How effective this checking and should people do this?
Before we talk further about this problem, of course we should know what the tumor marker is. The tumor marker is the substance that is resulted by cancer cells or body cells that are reacted with cancer cells or other tame situations. The tumor marker can be found in cancer mesh or circulate in body liquid like blood, urine, saliva, brain liquid, etc. Now we will talk about the tumor marker specifically that released from blood.
Because the tumor marker is resulted from the cancer cells or body cells that reacted with cancer so the tumor marker will increase if the cancer cells appear in body. The problem is the tumor marker is not specific for only one type of cancer, so one tumor marker can be released by different types of cancer. Moreover in early stadium, there are not any tumor markers that released and also other deviations that are still tame can improve the level of tumor marker in blood.
If that so, should you check do the tumor marker checking?
If it is only based on the high level of tumor marker so the result can’t be used as the assumption of suffering from cancer. The tumor marker has meaning if it used as the complement checking, it means if it is from the illness history, physic checking, and the support checking like roentgen, USG, CT Scan, etc shows there is cancer assumption and the tumor marker is high so the possibility of suffering from cancer is big.
Now, the tumor marker often used as the facility to adjust the success of cancer therapy and to detect the appearing of the cancer repetition
What are the tumor markers?
So how to make sure that you suffer from cancer?
The best way is by doing the mesh biopsy. The biopsy is done by doing surgery by taking a few of tumor then doing the histopatologi checking with the help of microscope to decide whether this tumor is dangerous or not.
Hopefully you could more understand on how to Detect Cancer by reading this post