CA 72-4 is found in increased quantities in many gut and gynaecological cancers. Significantly high levels may indicate recurrent disease. The combination of CA 72-4 with other known tumour markers, such as CEA and CA 19-9 for bowel cancer, or CA 125 for ovarian cancer may lead to improved sensitivity when monitoring for relapse of the disease. No screening process is 100% reliable - there is always a chance that you can get a false positive result (a result which may indicate a problem when there is in fact no problem) or a false negative result (an apparently favourable result in the presence of disease).
Available at our clinic in London
GP Referral: GP Referral is included
Target Turn Around Time in working days: 6 working days
Special Instructions: Special instructions - Please call for any special instructions while we update this test.
PLEASE NOTE:
Although we do offer a walk in service we advise that due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation that the named patient calls Patient Reception to check opening times before attending.
We Guarantee that you will receive your results in or before the stated number of working days of the longest test analysis within your pathology request. Our working days end at 5 pm. If you do not we will refund your money for the tests that are late.
