A member asked:

My lab work shows sed rate 25 crp 27.8 im worried if it can be cancer ??would it be way higher if so ? or it can be something else ? tested negative for ana ?any advice what it can be ?what can cause it to be in. those numbers?

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

CRP and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR, "sed rate") are markers of inflammation. There must be a hundred or more conditions that could be responsible; it isn't possible to know without a lot more information. Cancer might do it, but that's a lot less likely than various infections and immunologic conditions. Keep working with your doctor; or see an internal medicine specialist. Good luck.

Answered 5/25/2023

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