Help with blood work, please I do not know what these labs mean?
Monday, June 7th, 2010 at
11:07 am
ALP/209, AST/118 ALT/66 BILIRUBIN 1.7, PLT 43,PROTHROMBIN TIME 13.0 INR NORM/RATIO 1.3 ALCOHOL LEVEL WAS 365. It’s for my father, he is in detox now and I’m afraid that he has cancer, I need to make sure I get him to a Dr. that can help, he is in Florida and Dr. there is not very good. will these level go down after detox? Does he have cancer? They will not do a biobsy in fear of bleeding? Please I need help with this, he is very confused.
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are you afraid he has cancer because of these test results? these look like liver function tests. i’m not a doctor, but because of medication i’ve been getting these tests for 20 years. looking at my own records, all of these except prothrombin are pretty high. typically this implies poor liver function. if your father has been an alchoholic for many years, he may well have a damaged liver. but this in no way means cancer. his levels may in fact come down after detox and a couple months sobriety. but it seems far more likely that he has cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis, or any number of alcohol related diseases. or that his liver function is impaired by the amount of alcohol in his system, and will normalize after getting sober. I would say unless you have some other reason to suspect cancer, like a growth or a past history, that you can wait until his health gets better for further screening.