Lymphoma early detection/screening
.Screening
-Tests and exams used to find a disease, such as cancer, in people who do not have any symptoms
-Early detection
-Using an approach that lets lymphoma get diagnosed earlier than otherwise might have occurred.
Can lymphoma be found early?
-At this time, there are no widely recommended screening tests for this cancer.
-Still, in some cases lymphoma can be found early.
- [Screening is testing for cancer in people without any symptoms]
-The best way to find this cancer early is prompt attention to the signs and symptoms of this disease.
-Be alert on warning signs
-Careful, regular medical checkups are important for people with known risk factors for lymphoma (such as HIV infections, organ transplants, autoimmune disease, or prior cancer treatment).
-These people do not commonly develop lymphoma, but they and their doctors should be aware of possible symptoms and signs of lymphoma.
-The CA 19-9 test is sometimes used during treatment to see if the therapy is working or after treatment to see if the cancer has recurred (come back).
-Another substance, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), can help detect advanced pancreatic cancer in some people. But it isn't sensitive enough to find the cancer early and is not recommended as a screening test.
- Inherited DNA changes are thought to cause as many as 10% of pancreatic cancers.
- Because these inherited cases are sometimes linked with other cancers, determining whether a patient's relatives have an increased risk is not simple.
- Talking to someone with experience in hereditary cancer syndromes such as a genetic counselor, geneticist, or an oncologist is often helpful.
- For people in families at high risk of pancreatic cancer, there are newer tests for detecting early pancreatic cancer that may help.
- One of these is called endoscopic ultrasound
- This test is not used to screen the general public but might be used for someone with a strong family history of pancreatic cancer.
-Using endoscopic ultrasound, doctors have been able to find early, treatable pancreatic cancers in some members of high-risk families.
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