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    <title>CancerCompass Message Board: How reliable are the blood tests we take</title>
    <description>CancerCompass message board discussion started by Igahmah on 9/6/2007</description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How reliable are the blood tests we take</title>
      <description>Last week I went to my oncologist for my semi annual exam.&amp;nbsp; As usual, for the last five years, (yes I have almost reached the five year mark) she said all my numbers were good and everything looked fine.&amp;nbsp; I asked her about taking something after the five years on tomoxifin and she said because my tumor was so small and there was no lymph node involvement and a few other things she said she would not recommend that I take anything after my tomoxifin.&amp;nbsp; I said all that to say, this week I have noticed a slight red tint in my urine.&amp;nbsp; I read on the internet that it could be kidney cancer or it could be some other thing.&amp;nbsp; If my doctor just told me everything was ok, should I still go get my urine tested, or wait and see it it continues.</description>
      <author>Igahmah</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>RE: How reliable are the blood tests we take</title>
      <description>I hope that you have already consulted&amp;nbsp;with your oncologist or family doctor regarding this.&amp;nbsp; Definitely have more blood/urine tests done--if&amp;nbsp;your current oncologist won&amp;#39;t help,&amp;nbsp;seek a second opinion. It&amp;#39;s amazing how aggressively/quickly cancers can attack one&amp;#39;s body.I hope that this turns out to be something benign.Best Wishes,~Leslie</description>
      <author>Leslie912</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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