Sentences with phrase «elevated cancer marker»

Now I've been told that I have a slightly elevated cancer marker in a recent blood test (CA 15 - 3 with a score of 39.1 unit / mL H), and they want to do a bone scan and brain MRI just to be careful.

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«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

The tumour has completely disappeared in the two patients after three to four treatments and can no longer be detected neither by PET / CT imaging nor by the tumour marker PSA (Prostate - specific antigen), whose blood level is often elevated in men with prostate cancer.

Next steps for the team include identifying microbiota metabolites whose levels are either significantly elevated or depleted during diseases such as IBD or cancer, to find disease - specific markers and explore possible roles for these metabolites in disease progression.

«We can mimic those situations in animal models to demonstrate how certain biochemical markers, such as cortisol, may be elevated in those animals and that may also be elevated in our human population,» which may illustrate environmentally induced epigenetic changes that cause an elevated risk of colorectal cancer, Winn said.

«Our finding that breast cancer risk remains elevated up to 10 years after the false - positive result suggests that the radiologist observed suspicious findings on mammograms that are a marker of future cancer risk,» said the study's lead author, Louise M. Henderson, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and an assistant professor of radiology at the UNC School of Medicine.

Contrary to the medical preference of chemically castrating men with prostate cancer, research with boron has shown that elevated testosterone levels are beneficial by shrinking prostate tumours and PSA levels, PSA being a marker for tumours and inflammation in the prostate.