Why LDH test?

[GranPaSmurf]

What is the LDH test related to PC?

[NPfisherman]

The LDH test info--

webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/lac...

It is not PCa specific but a marker of cellular /tissue damage. Related to inflammation also.

I guess if you have a baseline, then you could use it to monitor disease progress in a number of diseases. For those with neuroendocrine PSA, it could be used--see article below:

cancernetwork.com/oncology-...

Hope this helps...

Don Pescado

[tango65]

These articles have some info about LDH and prostate cancer:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/175...

It seems that it could be use as a prognostic indicator in patients with bone metastases. it is not specific for prostate cancer and other causes of an elevated LDH should be ruled out.

[GranPaSmurf in reply to tango65]

Thanks all.

Lactic D Hydrogenase is an old friend. When I first began running clinical and hospital laboratories we ran 'Chem-12' profiles. LDH was one of the 12. It was usually was useful for tracking liver or cardiac damage.

That was half a century ago.

I see this MO for the first time next week. I'll learn more from her then. My guess is that she has had sucess using this cell-wall enzyme for tracking something.

Spending hours every day trying to comprehend Advanced Metastatic Prostate Cancer, I was a bit surprised by that test being ordered.

[j-o-h-n in reply to GranPaSmurf]

Ahhhhhhhh so you ran a clinical and hospital lab at one time... Now we know who to blame for all those faulty lab reports....👀 The plot thickens.....🤷‍♀️

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 06/20/2019 4:54 PM DST

[GranPaSmurf in reply to j-o-h-n]

Hmm 🤔 wrong results? I don't remember anything like that. Maybe that's one of the many things I once knew, and have since forgotten. 🥴

[j-o-h-n in reply to GranPaSmurf]

Hey that's my excuse...........😎

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 06/20/2019 5:09 PM DST