Malignant Cancer: Information On How To Detect Malignant Cancer

 

Malignant Cancer: How to detect Malignant Cancer

 

What is Malignant Cancer?

 

Malignant Cancer can be define as:

  • the spread of cancerous cells worsen progressively. The rate of deterioration may varies. Some could be from weeks to months to years and sometimes to decades.

  • because of the nature of the cancerous cells, it has the ability to spread or metastasize to the neighboring cells by  invading and destroy their tissue. With the invasion, the cancer cells capture the good normal cell by transforming their structure to become another cancer cell.

    This method of monopolizing neighboring cells are the characteristic of a cancer cell.

What is Benign Cancer?

 

Benign Cancer is classified as not cancerous. Benign Cancer tumor may grow larger in size by itself but will not affect, spread or capture the neighboring cells. In this instance, the tumor is harmless.

 

How to detect Malignant Cancer on our own?

 

Below listed are some of the signs of Malignant Cancer. However they my not prove anything in concrete until you make a full diagnostic.

  • beware of unreasonable loss of weight. Unaccountable weight loss could be due to many reasons such as:

    • stress

    • lack of sleep

    • change of environment

    But if you can't account why you can loose weight, then you need to do further test to ascertain the symptoms.

  • usually the malignant cancer tumor growth needs additional blood supply. This extra needs of blood supply is not significant when the tumor is small. But if it is big, the consequences of the patient is always at a shortage of blood.

  • loss of appetite

  • feeling tired all the time: feeling fatigue and exhaustion due to loss of blood

  • constant fever and feeling pain all over the body

  • the color of the stool changes to dark brown or almost black in color. It may indicate internal bleeding. Also check on whether the stool is floating or sinking. A sinking stool proves to be unhealthy.

  • inconsistency of urination or pain persist during urination.

  • undesired patches of reddish, bruised colored or moles appear without physical injuries.

  • sudden change of smell of our sweat.

  • a discharge of blood from our sneeze or cough or unusual blood during off period for females.

  • unusual lumps that do not go away.

  • abnormal swells that do not fade away after a long time.

How to detect Malignant Cancer with Tumor Markers test?

 

There are about 30 types of tumor markers available in the lab to detect Malignant Cancer and Benign Cancer. These tests are perform with blood, tissue and urine samples. Some of the available test are as listed below:

  • AFP (Alpha-feto protein) to test on liver, ovaries and testes

  • B2M (Beta-2 microglobulin) to test on lymphomas

  • BTA (Bladder tumor antigen) to test on bladder

  • CA15-3 (Cancer antigen 15-3) to test on lung, ovarian and breast

  • CA19-9 (Cancer antigen 19-9) to test on colorectal, bile ducts and pancreas

  • CA72-4 (Cancer antigen 72-4) to test on ovary

  • CA-125 (Cancer antigen 125) to test on ovary

  • Calcitonin to test on thyroid carcinoma

  • CEA (Carcinoembroyonic antigen) to test on lung, breast, thyroid gland, pancreas, liver, colorectal, bladder

  • CgA (Chromogranin A) to test on carcinoid malignant tumor

  • EGFR (Her-1) to test on lung, head and neck, colon, pancreas and breast

  • Estrogen receptors to test on breast

  • EVP to test on nasophryngeal

  • hCG (Human chorionic ganodotropin) to test on testical

  • Her-2/neu to test on breast

  • Monoclonal immunogolbulins to test on myeloma and waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia

  • NMP22 to test on bladder

  • NSE (Neuronspecific enolase) to test on neuroblastoma and lung

  • PAP (Prostate acid phosphatase) to test on prostate and lung

  • Progesterone receptors to test on breast

  • PSA (Prostate specific antigen) to test on prostate

  • PSMA (Prostate specific membrane antigen) to test on prostate

  • S-100 to test on metastatic melanoma

  • SMRP (Soluble mesothelin related peptides) to test on mesothelioma (asbestos poisoning)

  • TA-90 to test on metastatic melanoma

  • Thyroglobulin to test on thyroid

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