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The tumor scoreboards are elements that are present usually in levels high or altered in the samples of blood or corporal fluids in patients affected by different types of cancer.
UTILITY OF THE SCOREBOARDS UMORALES
The determination of the levels of tumor scoreboards is a part of help in the diagnosis and evolution of the cancer, but associate to other explorations, if the same since:
- The level of a tumor scoreboard can rise in persons without pathologies
- Neither the level of a tumor scoreboard rises in all the persons with cancer, especially in the early stages of the illness.
- Many tumor scoreboards are not specifics of a particular type of cancer; the level of a tumor scoreboard can increase as a result of more than one type of cancer.
On the other hand the tumor scoreboards are used to see the stadium of a type of cancer and to apply a concrete therapy or other one.
Then, they are used to see the evolution of the carried out treatment and of the illness. A decrease or restitution to the normal of the level of a tumor scoreboard can indicate that the cancer has reacted favorably to the therapy. If the level of the tumor scoreboard increases, it can indicate that the cancer is growing.
In the control panel later to the treatment they are used to see the possible relapsing of the illness.
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