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 TUMOR SCOREBOARD
The tumor scoreboards are those substances that can decide for analytical methods and have a causal connection or of probability with diverse types of cancer.
They are detected by analytical methods and serve for the detection, diagnosis and prognosis of some neoplasias.
The Alfafetoproteína (AFP) is a glicoproteína that is evident in fetuses from 7 until 9 weeks in the pregnant woman.
NORMAL VALUES
The normal values in not pregnant men and women must be lower than 15 ng/ml.
UTILITY
The determination of Alfafetoproteína (AFP) is useful in the precocious diagnosis of the cancer of liver and in the detection of relapses after his surgical intervention. Also there collaborates to cancers testiculares of terminal origin, teratoblastoma, cancer of ovary (teratocarcinoma, coriocarcinoma, embryonic carcinoma) and primitive cancers of the digestive pipe.
The levels raise in other benign pathologies like viral hepatitis, colestasis, cirrhosis and Crohn illness. In the pregnancy it decides to detect fetal suffering, malformations of the pipe neural (anencefalia, mielomeningocele and forked thorn), with values of AFP raised in maternal whey and in amniotic liquid, while the risk of syndrome of Down is detected by values of diminished AFP.
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