Tumour Marker Markers
Understand what this biomarker measures, what your results mean, and when to discuss with your health practitioner.
Understanding Your Results
Lower screening marker levels are generally positive. This is reassuring news.
Possible reasons:
- This can reflect individual baseline and test variation.
Next steps: Discuss with your GP if you have symptoms or a strong family history.
Your screening marker is in the expected range. Screening markers are most useful when tracked over time, giving a fuller picture.
Possible reasons:
- In-range results are common and do not diagnose or exclude disease.
Next steps: No follow-up is usually needed.
There are many common, non-serious reasons for elevated markers, including inflammation, benign enlargement, or natural changes that occur with age. Elevated markers often don't cause symptoms, which is why screening is valuable.
Screening markers are designed to be sensitive, which means they sometimes flag results that turn out to have benign explanations.
Possible reasons:
- This can relate to age, organ size, inflammation, or other non-cancer reasons.
Next steps: Discuss with your GP. They can interpret this in context of your age, symptoms, and health history to determine if any further assessment would be helpful.
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