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  1. NON-SPECIFIC TESTS
  2.  
  3. Alkaline phosphatase        elevated in bone and liver disease
  4. SGOT and SGPT               elevated if there is liver damage
  5. Bilirubin                             elevated in liver disease,  especially with bile obstruction
  6. LDH                                     elevated in many diseases,  including cancer
  7. Uric acid                              elevated in gout,  cancers of the blood and lymph nodes,
  8.                                              and after cancer treatment
  9. Creatinine and BUN         elevated in kidney disease
  10. Calcium                              elevated in cancer that has spread to the bone,  with tumors
  11.                                              that produce parathyroid hormone-like protein and in 
  12.                                              multiple myeloma,  as well as in some non-malignant diseases
  13. Electrolytes                        these levels are useful in metabolic and endocrine disease,  and
  14.   (sodium,  potassium          for monitoring both nutritional status and the effects of 
  15.   carbon dioxide,                   treatment
  16.   chloride)
  17. Amylase                              used to assess pancreatic disease