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- From: dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank)
- Subject: Re: general questions(pregnancy)
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- Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:21:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.225743.18640@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
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- |> Is HCG produced by men with thoracic and/or abdominal germ cell tumors,
- |> or are such HCG-producing tumors limited to the female reproductive
- |> tract (your inclusion of tumors "in the chest" seems to belie that)?
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- Testicular tumors too, but not all the time. Mine didn't.
-
- |> Is this a reliable means of testing for these tumors in men? If so and
- |> the frequency of such tumors was high enough, one would think a "pregnancy
- |> test" would be a part of a normal physical for both men and women,
- |> considering the low price of such a test.
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- I have to take a quantitative blood test every month to make sure that
- the tumor has not come back (though it could come back without a
- corresponding rise in the HCG level). The blood test is much more
- sensitive - and it has to be to be effective - and much more expensive.
- The urine test in the stores seems to cost about $10. The blood test
- costs about $85. It is more cost effective, and more accurate, to do
- a manual self examination. Once you've got the tumor, though, it is
- certainly a cost-effective way (but not the only way) to watch for relapse.
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