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What kinds of diagnostic tests are there for detecting cancer?
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Many/Varied tests: There are many diagnostic tests which we can use depending on your symptoms. There are blood tests, tumor markers, imaging studies to localise the Cancer to a specific organ and a biopsy to determine what kind of cancer there is. For healthy people we use Screening tests fro early detection(asymptomatic people). These tests are also organ specific(like mammography for Breast cancer, Colonoscopy fo
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