Madeeha S, Waleed S, Sanniyah Subhan
This study investigates the level of alpha fetoprotein (AFP) in female blood Serum living in Islamabad and Rawalpindi areas. Retrospective study will be taken as well as see how the diagnosis test will be taken. Data was collected from national institute of health Islamabad NIH. After collection data was arranged in tabulated form and will be subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. Level of AFP in female used as fetal growth marker and as tumor marker. Serum was tested by using Elecsys2010, (Roche diagnostics) that is an automatic diagnostic machine. This study will help in learning diagnosis of cancer and fetal growth with help of tumor marker AFP. It was concluded that AFP is an intermediate marker for abdominal and pelvic tumor detection. The study also suggested a relation between the fetal development and maternal serum AFP level.
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