... Thought this would maybe help some people who had simmilar symptoms of myself. As I remember scouring the interenet for anything I could find and testimonials of others. ... (3 replies)

... most cancers don't show in your blood work. ... (2 replies)

... If i had cancer would it show up in a blood test I did for high blood pressure? ... (6 replies)

... absolutely! cancer does not show up on a blood test unless it is leukemia. ... (2 replies)

... I did not know this. I was under the assumption, too, that if bloodwork was normal, all was ok. Thanks 4 the insight!! (6 replies)

... cancer does not appear in a routine blood test. ... (6 replies)

... I'm thinking no. Maybe specific cancers such as leukaemia does, as that would show an abnormality on the blood cells. ... (6 replies)

... Hi, I'm a 26 year old male. My grandma died of stomach cancer recently. Well, I have felt this pain in my right side, it's not severe just a discomfort. Anyway, I got a CT scan and they just found a kidney cyst in my right kidney. ... (6 replies)

... a blood test does not detect cancers. you had several blood tests during chemo because chemo kills the bad cells in your body but it also kills the good, that is why you always needed blood tests to see where your cell counts were before they proceeded with the nest treatment. ... (9 replies)

... I'm not sure. Something may come up that is a cause for concern , be it low blood cells or something. I don't think anything stands out directly after a test is done and they say "you have cancer" without running other tests. ... (3 replies)

... The answer to your question, Gel, is a definite "maybe. ... (7 replies)

... Since it is not highly sensitive or specific, the CA 27.29 test can go up for reasons other than metastasis, resulting in false positives, and it may not go up when there is metastasis, resulting in false negatives. The CA 27. ... (8 replies)

... My friends always used to try and convince me of this when I would get bloodwork that would come out normal despite the fact I felt like crap. ... (9 replies)

... Thanks for replying. Do you know if there has been enough data to show that stem cell transplants actually work in Myeloma patients? ... (4 replies)

... Hi Mel Thanks very much for your reply - I'm having an ultrasound tomnorrow so hopefully that will shed some light on things. As regards to the blood work - I said to the doctor that I didn't think there was a test that could determine cancer and he said that whilst that is true, if I did have some kind of cancer there was a 90% certainty that something would show up in... (9 replies)

... His acid reflux has not been a issue for him in a year or so. It used to be really bad. When the dr did the scope he even commented that he saw nothing to cause the weight loss. ... (15 replies)

... I am sure that all these tests and the uncertainties are beginning to get to you. The honest answer about lung cancer is that it often has no symptoms. ... (4 replies)

... for a few weeks i have had these sharp niggling pains in my lower left abdomin. ... (1 replies)

... Hello everyone, I have posted these a few times but never got any feedback so I decided to try once more.. ... (0 replies)

... Could still be a urinary tract infection...sometimes they don't show up on a regular urinalysis, and a culture must be done. ... (3 replies)