cube_rat
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Is there an overall blood test for cancer? I recall that my gym friend who recently passed away from cancer told me there is such a test.
audreyh1 said:My in-laws just don't get it. My MIL had been blood tested for liver function every 6 months due to the blood pressure medicine she had been taken, and it indicated that liver function was "perfect". So my in-laws don't understand why that test didn't show there was cancer in the liver. I've tried to explain that what they test for to evaluate liver function must be totally different than detecting cancer. They just find this very hard to understand.
macdaddy said:.. but it's still in development and hasn't been commercialized (although they will do tests upon request for celebrities and others connected to the research center).
I wonder what's in urine that makes it urine-- uric acid?Rich_in_Tampa said:A few years ago a so-called investigative reporter decided she would "bust" some medical labs as fraudulent. She submitted a specimen of diet Mountain Dew or 7-up instead of a urine specimen. The lab did what labs are supposed to do: they checked it for protein, glucose, white blood cells, bile, etc. The report correctly and accurately reported all these as negative or normal. Of course no lab does checks to prove that the specimen is what it is purported to be.
Nords said:I wonder what's in urine that makes it urine-- uric acid?
More importantly, what's in Mountain Dew that keeps it from being classified as urine?
Nords said:I wonder what's in urine that makes it urine-- uric acid?
More importantly, what's in Mountain Dew that keeps it from being classified as urine?
I first heard the term "bilirubin" as a nurse's aide and wondered what "Billy Ruben" could be (didn't I go to school with that kid? ) But I learned it's a reddish pigment in bile, resulting from breakdown of the heme in hemoglobin--"rubin" must be related to red, and "bili" to bile. But it still sounds funny to me--not like an English word.Rich_in_Tampa said:bilirubin