? ~ What is the name of the blood test to detect any cancer activity? Thyroglobulin is it???

[ChitChatNine]

I ask bcz during my 1yr followup appt I am going to ask for that test to be taken but don't recall the exact name of it.

I had a partial in January with 2 incidental findings of 0.4mm and 5mm pap cancer with no lymph node involvement and fully encapsulated.  I have a 3mm nodule being followed on the other side.

I did not have other side out or RAI .. just Synthroid for supression as well as to live bcz the other side never started working again since the surgery.

Thanks!

Cheryl

[JoBa]

Yep, it's thyroglobulin. I was unaware of what it was for so I looked it up after reading your post. Here is a link to a description of the test. You may want to have a reading done now to act as a baseline if they haven't already done that.

http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/thyroglobulin/test.html

Jo

[ChitChatNine]

Thanks so much!  I'm going to read that link.  I do believe they did this test last year when the vampires took 12 tests at one sitting LOL!!!!

BTW, all the stool cultures are negative!!  My daughter's doc said that since she sent out her samples that 5 other kids had the same chronic symptoms and tested too! She is almost positive it was a nasty atypical virus going around and very long-lived!  WHEW .. that was a long wait on those tests and I guess they were ok with the liquid spill .. which is GREAT news for me and my nose!

C~