1. Body mass index : Information
A good way to determine if your weight is healthy for your height is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). Being overweight puts strain on your heart and can lead to serious health problems. These problems include:
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2. Tumor Markers : Tumor markers
—Biochemicals produced by tumor cells or by the body in response to tumor cells. Their levels in the blood help evaluate people for certain kinds of cancer.
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3. SEER Training: Tumor Markers
A serum test used as a tumor marker for teratocarcinoma or embryonal carcinoma of the testis. Elevated alpha-fetoprotein levels are not found in other histologies of testicular cancer, although they may be found in patients with hepatocellular can...
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4. SEER Training: Tumor Markers
A tumor marker useful for monitoring ovarian cancer by measuring an antigen to epithelial neoplasms circulating in blood serum.
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5. Tumor Markers: Q&A - National Cancer Institute
Tumor markers are substances produced by tumor cells or by other cells of the body in response to cancer or certain benign (noncancerous) conditions. These substances can be found in the blood, in the urine, in the tumor tissue, or...
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6. Tumor markers - Glossary Entry - Genetics Home Reference
A substance sometimes found in the blood, other body fluids, or tissues. A high level of tumor marker may mean that a certain type of cancer is in the body. Examples of tumor markers include CA 125 (ovarian cancer), CA 15-3 (breast...
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7. elevated ca 19.9 tumor marker - Ovarian Cancer - MedHelp
CA 19-9 is a protein secreted by some pancreatic cancers and colon cancers.it is used to follow patients with a known diagnosis of these cancers to see if therapy is working.
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Scenario : Ellen is a 48 year old professional woman who lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut. She has four adult children and two grandchildren. She also has two aging parents who live nearby and who, though they have been active all their li...
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The Zebrafish Gene Collection (ZGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and sequences to provide a complete set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for zebrafish....
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The Xenopus Gene Collection (XGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and 5'/3' sequences to provide a set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for Xenopus laevis ...
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