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Physical Examination
There are no specific findings for metastatic cancer on physical examination. But there may be:
• fever
• tenderness of the bones
• tumors under the skin
• enlarged liver and spleen
• enlarged, hard lymph nodes
• fluid in the abdomen (ascites)
• jaundice (the skin turning yellow)
• swelling of the legs (edema)
Blood and Other Tests
• Routine liver function studies—blood tests looking at serum bilirubin and liver enzymes—may be abnormal.
They can, however, be completely normal even in advanced stages of metastatic cancer.
• There may be serum blood tests that are abnormal. Metastatic colon cancer, for example, may be associated
with an elevated carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), testicular cancer with a high alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and/or
elevated HCG and ovarian cancer with an elevated CA-125. But not all tumors have specific serum markers.